"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 385-386.  
Used by permission.  [McLean]

JOHN RILEY FLYNN:  John R. Flynn is one of the new pastors in this 
Association and was born in Lyon County, Kentucky, on November 1, 
1904, the son of Robert Timothy and Malissa Jane Bridges Flynn.  He 
attended school in his native county until the family moved to 
Paducah, Kentucky, in 1916, where he finished high school.  He is a 
graduate of the West Kentucky Bible School, class of 1931, conducted 
by the late Elder H. Boyce Taylor, of Murray, Kentucky.  He has also 
completed two years in the Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky.
	Before entering the ministry he served as a lumber inspector 
and labored in the sheet metal and furniture business.  He was 
converted in May, 1923, and united with the East Baptist Church, 
Paducah, Kentucky, being baptized by the pastor, Elder A. E. 
Lassiter.  He later moved his membership to the Twelfth Street 
Church, Paducah, Kentucky, and was licensed to preach by this Church 
in November, 1927.  This same Church ordained him to preach in 
December, 1928, with Elders Jesse Neel, L. W. Carlin, and Jago 
Washer, a missionary to Brazil, serving as the presbytery.
	He has served the following Churches: Grace, Paducah, Kentucky; 
Flint, Blood River, and Sugar Creek, in Calloway County, Kentucky; 
Eddyville, Caldwell County, Kentucky; and Livermore, McLean County, 
Kentucky.  He served the Bethlehem, Pleasant Hope, Carmack, and 
Bethany Churches in Lyon County, in connection with his pastorate at 
Eddyville, preaching to these Churches on Saturday and Sunday 
afternoons.  He has been at Livermore since January, 1943.  In the 
years 1935-1936 he served as Moderator of the Caldwell County 
Association.
	He married Miss Lera Mae Walters of Paducah, Kentucky, on 
September 25, 1932.  They have three children, two girls and one boy.  
Brother Flynn has served well in the Churches which he has pastored 
and is gaining a way into the hearts of the people of Livermore.

Flynn Bridges Taylor Lassiter Neel Carlin Washer Walters
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Lyon-KY Paducah-McCracken-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY Murray-Calloway-KY 
Eddyville-Caldwell-KY

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