Roy Gilpin Lynam (1899-1986)

Roy Gilpin Lynam was born on 26 January 1899 in Delaware. He died on 23 March 1986 in Tampa, Florida from a heart attack. He married Mildred E. Thompson on 16 March 1921 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware.

Roy Gilpin Lynam's birth certificate

Roy Lynam and Mildred Thompson's marriage certificate

Roy Gilpin Lynam's WWI draft card

Roy Gilpin Lynam's WWII draft card

  

The Morning News, 27 March 1986
TAMPA, Fla. -- Roy G. Lynam, 87, of 4410 Wisconsin Ave., formerly of Wilmington, Del., died of a heart attack Sunday at home.
   Mr. Lynam, who lived on Garfield Avenue in Gwinhurst for 45 years, owned the Wilmington contracting company Roy G. Lynam & Son for 25 years before moving to Tampa around 1970. He had been a member of the Christian & Missionary Alliance Church, formerly in Wilmington, now in Hockessin.
   His wife, Mildred E., died in July.
   He is survived by two sons, Ralph W. and Robert H., both of Tampa; two daughters, Ruth Ethel Talley of Hayesville, N.C., and Mildred Ann Lambert of Wilmington; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
   Graveside services and burial were Wednesday in Sunset Memorial Garden in Tampa.

PARENTS
Joseph Gilpin Lynam
Sarah Bailey

SPOUSE
Mildred Emma Thompson

CHILDREN
Ralph Willard Lynam
Dorothy Blanch Lynam
Ruth Ethel Lynam
Robert Harlan Lynam
Mildred Ann Lynam

SOURCES

• 1900 census, Appooinimink Hundred Townsend town, New Castle, Delaware
• 1910 census, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
• 1920 census, Wilmington Ward 7, New Castle, Delaware 
• 1930 census, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware 
• 1940 census, Representative District 6, New Castle, Delaware 
• Delaware Vital Records 
• The Morning News, 27 March 1986 
• The Tampa Tribune, 25 March 1986