The Wellington Leader September 7, 1967
New Mexico Editor Buried at Dodson
Miss Floy Ann Wynn, prominent New Mexico newspaper woman who was reared at Dodson died unexpectedly Wednesday August 30 in a hospital in Jal N M., where she had lived 16 years. She had sold The Jal Record in the spring of 1966 and retired from publishing.
Miss Wynn began her newspaper career on the old Collingsworth Standard in Wellington then worked on newspapers at Hollis, Borger and other panhandle towns.
During World War II, she was with the University Press a unit of the University of New Mexico, then she was woman's Editor of the Tucumcari, N.M. News. Miss Wynn then joined a company which bought newspapers and rebuilt them to be sold. It was in that capacity that she became publisher of The Higgins paper after the town was destroyed by a tornado more than 20 years ago.
She was working on the Valley Counter at Alamosa, Colo., when she accepted sight unseen the opportunity to establish the Ja1 Record. She told friends she wanted to get away from Colorado's below zero weather. Miss Wynn handled almost the entire load of responsibility for the Jal Record—news, advertising and the business department. The actual printing was done in Kermit. She often recalled the lighter side of her work, and it was in this vein that Time Magazine revealed that this newspaper woman was allergic to both printers' ink and the chemicals used in developing her news pictures.
She received many honors. Miss Wynn was named Woman of the Year at Jal, and upon her retirement the Jal Chamber of Commerce presented her a plaque for her outstanding community service. In 1966 she was named Ex-Student of the Year by Dodson Ex-Students. Since she retired, Miss Wynn has devoted her time to freelance writing.
Miss Wynn was born at Rising Star, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Wynn. She was only three years old when she came with them to the Dodson area, in Oklahoma. When she was 15, the family moved across the state line so she could attend school at Dodson. First she was a teacher, and Miss Wynn returned to Dodson to teach her first school. Later she taught at Bitter Creek southeast of Dodson in Oklahoma.
Funeral services for Miss Wynn were conducted at the Church of Christ in Jal, followed by services at the Dodson Church of Christ Friday Sept. 1 at 3 p.m. Minister Van Bonneau officiated, and burinl was in the Dodson Cemetery, with Kelso Funeral Home in charge of local arrangements.
Pallbearers were nephews and included G. P. Gordon, Phil Wynn, Gage Robertson, Kenneth Wynn, Eddie Tom Wynn and Buddy Wynn.
Surviving Miss Wynn are two sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Katie Gordon of Miles, Mrs. Lillian Rollins of Las Cruces, N.M., Ira Wynn of Amarillo, L. F. Wynn of Plainview, who was her twin, and Alf Wynn of Childress. Three brothers preceded her in death, Elmer Wynn, Marvin Wynn and Elliott Wynn.