Patrice Wymore Flynn is Dead

Patrice Wymore Flynn

Patrice Wymore Flynn, the widow of the former Hollywood legend, Errol Flynn is dead.

Patrice Wymore Flynn 87, died from natural causes at her home in Portland Jamaica shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Saturday March 22.

She had starred in a least 15 movies alongside famous stars, including Kirk Douglas, Randolph Scott, Frank Sinatra and her late husband.

In an immediate respond to her passing, member of parliament for west Portland, Daryl Vaz said the former movie star and philanthropist will be long remembered by residents of the parish.

"Mrs. Flynn was loved and respected by all in Portland for her tireless efforts to put the parish on the world map," said Vaz.

Patrice made her debut in a singing role in the nostalgic Doris Day/Gordon MacRae tune fest Tea for Two (1950).

Fate took a hand when she was cast opposite the much older Errol in Rocky Mountain (1950), one of his lesser-known efforts.

Community Respond

Mrs.. Patrice Wymore Flynn's passing is met with mixed feelings in the community's of Islington, Castle and Boston Bay in Portland where she has live for almost 60 years. Wealthy connections to Mrs. Flynn will remember her for he Philanthropy but the community's that really matter remember a different person one who never mingle with locals in the districts and kept herself protected by her connection to the powerful.

Arnella Flynn in Jamaica

                                                                       

Errol Flynn Great House Castle Comfort

 Willard Hearne, a long time friend and sometime lover, couldn't believe his luck when Arnella fell for him. A former supermodel and heir to one of the biggest properties on the island of Jamaica, she was infatuated with the 56-year-old Rastafarian with matted dreadlocks and jaundiced eyes from years of smoking.

“Arnella Flynn was a very sweet girl, but she had a lot of problems,” Willard said, sitting on the deck of his jungle shack. “It is a shame she and her mother couldn't get along. Just days before Arnella died she got a letter from her mother’s attorney telling her she had to leave the Errol Flynn Estate, she was being kicked out. She told me she was sad because she had nowhere to go. Then three days later she was dead. I’ll miss her.”

Patrice Wymore Flynn had often tried to rein her in. She would cut off her finances in the hopes that she wouldn't be able to afford the one-pound-a-line of cocaine from the local dealers. But Arnella turned to selling her homegrown carrots and tomatoes on roadside stalls to tourists for cash. When that ran out, she took to stealing coconuts from her mother’s farm at Castle Comfort. For Arnella, told when she was a kid she would never want for anything, money still grew on trees. She was banished from the main house to a smaller, tatty house elsewhere on the estate.

Who is Errol Flynn?

Errol Flynn in an early Movie

After the death of her charming rogue of a husband, Patrice Wymore returned to Hollywood for a brief revival of her career during which time she appeared in "Ocean's Eleven" with Frank Sinatra. In 1967 she came back to Jamaica for good and soon became known for her skills at cattle farming, once even winning the title of Champion Farmer. Today she continues to operate Errol Flynn Estates breeding beef cattle and growing coconuts.

In a recent interview she confided that she's still here because, "the Jamaica I fell in love with as a young bride still exists in many ways (certainly not all), and it is the pull of the peace and tranquility that keeps me here."

Patrice Wymore Flynn still lives in Castle Comfort Portland Jamaica, she continues to manage her 19000 acre Errol Flynn Estates where she runs her cattle ranch. Mrs Flynn has never integrated in the local community where she lives, she continues after over 50 years isolated and is not well known. Her public appearances are limited to national events especially those honoring the legacy of her late husband.