RemembranceWednesday, November 4
John Killacky, who led the Flynn and served in the Vermont House, has died at 74
The Daily Burlington team
John Killacky, the artist who ran the Flynn for eight years before serving two terms in the Vermont House, died Monday, Nov. 2. He was 74.
At the Flynn, he welcomed low-income and neurodivergent audience members into the Burlington theater. Former colleagues said he came to Montpelier with a desire to improve Vermonters' day-to-day lives and a fire to protect their rights.
Killacky led the Flynn for eight years and served two House terms
- 8 years
- leading the Flynn as executive director
- 2 terms
- in the Vermont House of Representatives
Source: Seven Days Vermont
- Roles: artist, Flynn executive director, Vermont legislator
- Husband: Larry Connolly
- Longtime friend and collaborator: Sandgate photographer Dona Ann McAdams
He died at home, according to his obituary in the Burlington Free Press, after cancer spread from his prostate throughout his body.
74Killacky's age when he died Nov. 2
He died of metastatic prostate cancer, according to his husband.
Sources: Seven Days Vermont, Burlington Free Press
Sources: Seven Days Vermont, Burlington Free Press