NAPLES - Annie Merle Wynn often opened a gift-wrapped box of stationary or note cards on many a Christmas — a thoughtful gift from her son Jerry, one of her five children. “She sent cards to those she hadn’t seen in awhile. She wanted to make sure that everyone was doing well and knew that they were in her prayers. She wanted everyone to know that she loved them and anything she could do for them she would do,” Jerry Wynn said Sunday. Annie Wynn died peacefully in her sleep early Friday morning, her son said. The wife of Naples grocer Don Wynn, who died in 2007, Annie was two months shy of her 90th birthday. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday at Hodges Funeral Home at Naples Memorial Gardens. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church of Naples. Wynn had declining health in recent years and had been in and out of the hospital in recent weeks, suffering a stroke at the hospital on Jan. 8. She had gone home for hospice care and had an overnight nurse, her son said. Although she didn’t live to her 90th birthday as she had hoped, the day before she passed, Wynn’s 19th great-grandchild was born. Jerry Wynn said his mother will be remembered for being the epitome of a Southern lady, for her cooking and as a hostess, as well as for her unwavering faith. The family was behind the Sunshine Suprex grocery stores as well as Sunshine ace Hardwares and Wynn’s Market. Although Annie Wynn was raised Methodist as she grew up in Everglades City, living with her five siblings and aunt and uncle in the town’s laundromat, the family also is known for its support of First Baptist Church. From its original downtown location to its move to Pine Ridge Road and to its current location off Orange Blossom, the family were donors and also worked to help get the East Naples Baptist Church started, Jerry Wynn said. “She had such faith in the Lord,” Jerry Wynn said. “You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone like her. Knowing how she treated everyone — she remembered them and their names and treated everyone like they were family.” One of Jerry’s high school classmates, upon learning of Annie’s death, wrote him saying he could still remember her cooking and what it was like always being remembered and looked after by Annie. You’d have wanted to try her cooking. She was known for it and for making sure no one ever left her home hungry. “Everything from a pot roast dinner to fried chicken, to fried cube steak ... it sound like I’m saying fried this and fried that — Southern people fry everything,” Jerry Wynn said. “Every meal that she made was over the top, as far as Southern cooking.” (credited to Naples Daily News)
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:29:10 +0000
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