Birth: 1928 Death: 2024 James Jim Lowell Lindquist OBITUARY James Jim Lowell Lindquist James (Jim) Lowell Lindquist Born October 9, 1928 Deceased July 17, 2024 Dad lived a long, happy life and was 95 years old when he passed, a milestone few of us ever achieve and certainly one he didn’t expect. He was born in Muskegon MI, an only child to Ernest and Jennie Lindquist. At the age of 4, his family moved back to Hector, a small town in south central Minnesota, where his parents had been born and raised.
Once back in Minnesota, his parents purchased a farm and resumed the long standing family tradition of farming. No matter where life would take him over the years, Hector and the farm would always be home. Upon graduation from high school, he enlisted in the Navy and completed boot camp, but the war was ending and troops were being withdrawn, so he decided he would enroll in college at the University of Minnesota to study Forestry.
It was here, that he met the love of his life Diane DeLaurier. She was a student pursuing her degree in English and Education. Jim and Diane dated on and off throughout their last two years of college and he often said he could not believe how lucky he was to have found the most beautiful, intelligent and unfailingly kind girl he had ever met, and although she didn’t say so at first, she felt the exact same way about him! Jim and Diane were married shortly after graduation, while he was on leave from Air Force Candidate School, and when she was on .