R.I.P. Linn Creighton

One of the more interesting members of my Mom's side of the family left us recently, Reverend Linn Creighton of New Jersey. Linn was Mom's first cousin, on her mother's side, as he was the son of her Mother's sister Clara Linn Creighton (the wittiest Linn there was, in my memory!).

Linn was born in 1917 in Wuchang, China, where Clara and her husband Roy were working at the time. Roy was an architect but also a missionary, and was interned by the Japanese for a couple of years during WW2. Young Linn eventually became a minister, and also married a lady minister named Lois. They inspired my brother Dan and I to have another "husband and wife minister team" at Mom's Memorial Service in June 2007. We wanted L & L, but obviously they couldn't do it.

For 50 years, Linn and Lois spent part of each summer at the picturesque Rockywold/Deephaven camp on Squam Lake here in New Hampshire. They couldn't make it up the past couple of years due to Linn's final illness (Alzheimer's) but Lois will be here later this month by herself. Linn had a sister who died when she was only a year old, and is survived by another sister, Phyllis, and a brother, Roger, who flew P-38s in the Aleutian Islands in World War 2.

Click on the post title for a look at the Creighton Collection at the Yale University Library. Fascinating stuff!