Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Flynn, Frederick Peter "Mickey" October 13, 1960
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Virginian Pilot October 14, 1960

             F. P. (MICKEY) FLYNN, 75, EX-POLICE SERGEANT, DIES

Frederick Peter (Mickey) Flynn, Irish born mainstay of the Norfolk Police 
Division's Identification Bureau for 28 years until his retirement in 1950, died 
Thursday at 11 a.m. in a Norfolk hospital. He was 75.
Before becoming a policeman he taught grammar school and junior classes in 
Maryland. He held a bachelor of science degree from LaSalle College. During 
World (War) I he headed a Civil Service committee at the old Army Base to 
welcome returning veterans to Norfolk.
With redeployment over, he turned to police work, joining the force Nov. 15, 
1921, as a patrolman. Affectionately known as Mickey, he pounded a beat a year, 
but in 1922 transferred to a desk job in the Identification Bureau. There he 
remained until retirement with rank of detective sergeant.

                                ASSISTED CAPTURES

Although he considered desk work a handicap, Mickey played an active role in 
numerous criminal captures with his records on known lawbreakers.
Early in 1955 he was appointed a justice of the peace by Judge H. Lawrence 
Bullock of Corporation Court.
A resident of Norfolk since his youth, he lately resided at 810 Redgate Ave.
He was born Jan 8, 1885 in Newton Forbes, Langford County, Ireland, 80 miles 
west of Dublin on the River Shannon.
He was the seventh son of a family of eight children, only one of them a girl, 
Miss Elizabeth Flynn of Dublin, his only survivor.
Both of his parents, John Flynn and Mrs. Margaret Donahue Flynn were 
schoolteachers. They planned to send Mickey to Oxford University, but this went 
awry when he finished the last public grade. (ninth)

                                 LANDED IN  1899

Then came a chance to come to America and finish his schooling in Maryland. He 
landed in the United States in September 1899 and finished his education, 
culminated with a teaching stint of 11 years in Maryland schools. His Civil 
Service duties in World War I brought him to Norfolk to stay.
He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
A funeral service will be held at H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments Saturday at 2 
p.m. with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery.
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NORFOLK — A funeral service for Frederick Peter (Mickey) Flynn, who died 
Thursday, was held at H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments Saturday by the Rev. 
Thomas J. Walsh, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial was in St. 
Mary’s Cemetery. 
Pallbearers, members of the Norfolk Police Division, were Inspector D. E. Berry, 
Inspector W. T. Walker, Capt. A. M. Sawyer, Lt. T. L. Mayo, Lt. A. B. Watt and 
Lt. R. C. Andrews.

Virginian-Pilot  October 16, 1960

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