Daniel R. Wynn
The First Coast family is experiencing painful and fat losses because of the deaths of Daniel Ruben Wynn (79) on Sunday, February 23, 2025 and Padrica Mendez (87) on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. Mendez and Wynn have been cultural treasures who shared their skills during the family and the sector at immense.
Like James Weldon and John Rosemond Johnson, Mendez and Wynn have been Jacksonville/LaVilla born natives; they too in conjunction with their works, deeds and services and products have been globally known. Dan’s abilities have been in art work and sculptures, he additionally modeled. Pádraic’s skills have been making a song, designing, tailoring and modeling. A lyric soprano, skilled in the community and in Rome, Italy, Padrica was once acclaimed for her performances and she or he had more than one professions. Presen didn’t abdicate Mendez nor Wynn from a hour of carrier. They have been talented, fertile and intensely ingenious. Padrica’s daddy was once Pedro Medez, the Cuban tailor he taught, his spouse Janie and their 3 kids, Padrica, Mariano and Pedro, Jr. to turn out to be excellent tailors. Despite the fact that the kids have been faculty graduates, each and every considered one of them carried at the tailoring industry during hour. Once a year Padrica created elegant outfits for performers in Juneteenth and alternative cultural celebrations.
Padrica M. Mendez
Dan’s folks, Jack D. (Mary) Wynn, Sr., owned and operated the Wynn Lodge/Lenape Tavern at 636 W. Ashley Boulevard and alternative companies. Dan’s art work hung in non-public properties, workplaces, galleries, america Capitol, the Governor’s Mansion, Paris, France and with Queen Elizabeth II of the UK within the viewing target market. Councilwoman Gwen G. Yates led the struggle to fee Daniel Wynn to form the hour measurement bronze sculpture of a Negro baseball participant that stands on the front of the Myrtle Road, now James P. Tiny Baseball Landscape.
Thank you be to God for Padrica M. Mendez and Daniel R. Wynn, Remains-In-Vacay My Loves.
Visitation and Party of Time for Padrica Mendez was once Wednesday, March 5, at Coleman, Walker, Berry Mortuary, 6650 Moncrief Highway and Thursday, March 6, at Bethel Baptist Church, 215 Bethel Baptist Boulevard.
Viewing for Daniel Wynn will probably be Friday, March 7 from 5-7 p.m. and Services and products will probably be held Saturday, March 8, 11:00 a.m. at Weston’s Mortuary, 3027 N. Myrtle Road.
