Joy Christensen
As I recall the story, Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Lucille were the first ones (or at least among the first few ones) to know that his little brother John Joy and another Lucile had gotten married on March 21, 1943 in an otherwise unannounced ceremony. Our Daddy, John Joy, always said, he liked the name Lucille / Lucile. Since he and Aunt Lucille also shared the same birthday, March 16, the four of them spent many of those birthdays together in their older years. Many of us who now are the elderly ones, will never forget the fun little jokes and songs that L&L knew to sing. But most of all, what I want to remember is that their quiet home was always a place where Joy and Lucile could land with a big flock of kids, or where they could send one or two of us either for a little vacation breather, or in the case of emergency. Emergency such as the time in 1948, when our father flew with Nancy and me from the DC area to Oklahoma, so that we would be cared for during the time that our mother would be in the hospital for serious surgery. Later, we visited them at Brownsville, Texas; and when we returned from Europe in 1962 with six kids and an injured dog, our first stop was at Tulsa for an overnight stay. Amazing that their home always had beds enough for such a family to stop in! In even later years, my father and I went to see Uncle Lloyd several times when I was there for a visit, and it was a particular event to watch the two of them in a debate, because they were so alike and yet so different. Yes, Lloyd Lee Christensen was a special person to a large number of people, many who I do not even know. We count ourselves lucky and blessed to be part of his large family and to say that Lloyd Lee Christensen was our Uncle Lloyd. With many good memories, Joy Sue Christensen