In Memory

Charles Lynn

Ludington, MI
4 Sep 2001

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Charles William Lynn, Jr.
Born - March 3, 1946, Lockport, NY
Died - June 22, 2004, Watertown, MA
Buried - Greenwood Cemetery, Wilson, NY
 



 
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12/29/13 02:19 AM #1    

Robert (Bob) Thomas

I found this tribute for Charlie online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66514011.

Charles was my Big Brother, so I consider myself extremely biased in writing any kind of bio for him. However, I feel justified in the things I am saying, because they came from his friends and colleagues, not just from me.

Charles built a working computer in 1964 as a high school science fair project. The input device was a rotary telephone dial. He followed that by graduating from MIT with a B.S., M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was a fantastic system designer and programmer, excelling at complex system design (that from competitors of the company he worked for). He was also a fantastic teacher, mentor, and friend. He could talk to anyone on that person's level, whether that person was a 2-year-old, or another Ph.D. Every conversation with him ended up being a learning experience - although people generally didn't realize that until later when they used the information they had learned and stopped and asked themselves where they had learned it. More than one colleague/friend said that he was the one person who could always be counted on to show up to help when he said he would - or that sometimes, he just showed up after they mentioned that they were doing something that he knew would be easier to accomplish with more hands - whether that was baking cookies with the kids, cleaning out gutters, or building an addition on a house. He loved to "walk up" mountains - he never considered himself a "mountain-climber" - and, because he didn't have a car, he would walk for miles from the end of public transportation to get to a hiking site - then "walk up" the mountain with the group.

But most of all, he was always there when you needed him.
 
 
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 Parents:
  Charles William Lynn (1913 - 2008)
  Fern Eleanor Cook Lynn (1915 - 2010)
 
Burial:
Greenwood Cemetery 
Wilson
Niagara County
New York, USA
 
Created by: Kathy
Record added: Mar 05, 2011 

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