Margaret Elizabeth Flynn

Margaret Elizabeth Flynn, 73, originally from northern Virginia, lived in Germany several years as a young child, where she learned to speak German, then moved back to Massachusetts. She spent the rest of her childhood and teen years in Virginia. Margaret graduated from Catholic University in Washington DC, followed by travel in Morocco and Europe for several years. She loved experiencing other cultures and learning languages.

Margaret moved to Austin, Texas, and worked at the original Whole Foods, then called Safer Way. She moved to Bastrop, where she lovingly cared for her family dogs over the years, and enjoyed painting, sketching, photography, gardening, needlework, sewing, and other artistic medium. Margaret worked with Fit for Life and for years wrote articles for their natural health publications.

For decades she communicated with friends she had met around the world. This included her extraordinary hobby of sending cards to friends, family, and extended family to honor them on holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, or just to say hello.

Margaret was the loving daughter of Col. E. Paul and Dolores Flynn, and is survived by partner Eric Lloyd of Bastrop, her sisters Catherine Flynn Chenoweth (Randy Chenoweth) and Elizabeth Flynn (Dennis Hollenback). She was beloved aunt of Clover Chenoweth Helmka (Roger Helmka), children Bethany, Olivia, and Zachary, Christian Chenoweth, Rebekah Chenoweth Cummings (Lindsay Cummings), children Ceiba, Lela, and Viviana, Anna Chenoweth, children Christopher, Serena, and Elisabeth Chenoweth— and this meant a lot of greeting cards!

Margaret’s life has passed quietly but embodies seven decades begun with loving physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing and every expectation that she’d live a productive, joyful life. She was a wonderful, loyal, protective older sister. She surprised those who knew her well with her sense of humor and wit. She was educated and traveled, was an artist, and spent decades studying and educating others in health and nutrition. The irony of her death to cancer is muted by the knowledge that separation in the Garden— the garden that she loved and which her art and photography so frequently expressed— brought briars, sickness and death. But we look to a new heaven and earth where there will be no more separation, tears, nor death— imagine such a place!— where we who love Him here will be forever there with our loving Jesus!

"With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation." Isaiah 12:3.