Edwina 'Sunny' (Sundholm) Lynch

OBITUARY for Edwina Lynch, nicknamed Sunny; recent residence: Riverside, CA. LYNCH, EDWINA "SUNNY" Age 85, died June 26, 2004 as a result of an auto accident. She was born on April 28, 1919 to Edward and Lillian Sundholm in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Brooklyn's Bay Ridge High School in 1935 and attended Duke University in North Carolina and received a degree in English and Foreign Languages in 1939. Sunny served in the US Navy during WW II and married Donald Lynch of Highwood, Montana in 1945. Sunny was preceded in death by her parents and by her brothers, John and Arthur Sundholm.

Extracted from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82518256/donald_walton_lynch

From David Lynch's 2019 Biography/Memoir: "Room to Dream." Author David Lynch, Kristine McKenna

By all accounts, Lynch's parents were exceptional people. "Our parents let us do things that were kind of crazy and you wouldn't do today," said John Lynch. "They were very open and never tried to force us to go one way or another." David Lynch's first wife, Peggy Reavey, said, "Something David told me about his parents that was extraordinary was that if any of their kids had an idea for something they wanted to make or learn about, it was taken absolutely seriously. They had a workshop where they did all kinds of things, and the question immediately became: How do we make this work? It moved from being something in your head to something out in the world real fast, and that was a powerful thing.

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• Residence: Kings, New York, United States - 1920
• Residence: Brooklyn (Districts 0501-0750), Kings, New York, United States - 1930
• Residence: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States - 1935
• Residence: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States - 1940
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 16 2025, 23:54:12 UTC

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References

1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72608302/edwina_a-lynch
2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82518256/donald_walton_lynch
3. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GSR6-PLW
4. WikiTree contributors, "Edwina Alma (Sundholm) Lynch (1919-2004)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sundholm-2 : accessed 17 January 2025). cites
   1. "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 18 November 2023, 06:01), entry for Edwina A Sundholm (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:GSR6-PLW ); contributed by various users.
   2. "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ5R-FPJ : Sun Mar 10 12:52:46 UTC 2024), Entry for Arthur E Sondholm and Lillian Sondholm, 1920.
   3. "United States Census, 1930", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4LV-3WS : Thu Mar 07 21:21:00 UTC 2024), Entry for Hermine H Jacoby and William Jacoby, 1930.
   4. "United States Census, 1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ1Y-1JS : Sun Mar 10 19:54:38 UTC 2024), Entry for Arthur E Sundholm and Lillian Sundholm, 1940.
   5. "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K865-QBK : Sat Mar 09 11:59:12 UTC 2024), Entry for Donald Walton Lynch and Alma Edwina Sundholm, 16 January 1945.
   6. "United States 1950 Census", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X1H-XDCN : Tue Nov 07 22:01:03 UTC 2023), Entry for Donald W Lynch and Edwina Lynch, 10 April 1950.
   7. "Montana, Flathead County Records, 1871-2007", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL7Z-58PD : Fri Mar 08 21:20:01 UTC 2024), Entry for Alma Edwina Lynch and Arthur Edward Sundholm, 26 Jun 2004.
   8. "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2D-HYRM : 26 January 2024), Sunny, ; Burial, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Riverside National Cemetery; citing record ID 72608302, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
5. Lynch, David, and McKenna, Kristine. 2018. Room to Dream. Random House Trade paperback edition. New York, N.Y.: Random House. < Look inside >; < Audible sample > (about his grandparents)

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 19 2025, 7:51:47 UTC