Lynn married his high school sweetheart, and they have been married for 51 years surviving & clinging to each other during the raising of 5 children. He had a 40 year career with an electric utility as an electrical engineer working in design & operations, and then later in management.Lynn also served in three churches as youth minister, and then later as music minister directing choirs and leading worship.When Lynn dabbles in his hobbies you will find him playing his guitar, talking on ham radio, or updating the Linux operating system on one of his computers.He may be a Texan but he doesn’t have a horse – instead he has diesel pickup truck that’s 23 years old and has almost ½ million miles on it.He was diagnosed in 2013 with small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) and has been treated with ibrutinib since 2014. He sees a specialist at M. D. Anderson.