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Submitted: 1/5/10 • Approved: 1/6/10 • Last Updated: 8/4/12 • R276914-G0-S3
James Ray Linn was born on July 23, 1919 in McCrory, Woodruff Co., Arkansas and died on September 2, 1995 in Grand Blanc, Genesee Co., Michigan.
Jack was the third son of Robert Benjamin Linn and Jessie Lee JAMES. He had two older brothers, William Robert and LeRoyce, and two younger brothers, Charles Rudolph and Robert B. Jr.
Jack married Ethel L. Turner (1919-2002) on December 3, 1938 in Yellville, Marion Co., Arkansas. Jack and Ethel and two children - James Dale (1940-1956) and Wanda (living). On the first time that James was allowed to attend an event by himself - he and his date were hit and killed by a drunk driver as they crossed the road to the high school dance. This devastated Jack and Ethel and I don't think either ever fully recovered from the loss of James.
Jack and his brothers served in World War II - Jack enlisted in the Army. His war service took him to the Pacific where Jack saw unimaginable things - things so bad that he could not talk about them 40 years after the war. He did tell his youngest brother some of what he saw, but neither talked about it with other people. I do know that Jack landed on several islands in the Pacific and fought alongside his fellow soldiers to take the islands. I think this is where he saw things that haunted him for years after the war ended.
Following the war, Jack settled in Michigan and started work in the factories in Flint. All four of his brothers were working in the factories as well, although William Robert left and moved back to Arkansas and Charles left to become a construction worker. Jack didn't like working in the factory so he left it to start his own business raising horses. Jack bred and raised some of the best quarter horses for harness racing in Michigan. He was very proud of his horses and rightfully so.
Jack died from brain cancer - a difficult and unforgiving disease. But we remember Uncle Jack as a strong and proud man willing to defend his country and his family and a man who loved his raising horses.
Contributed on 1/5/10 by tonirl
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