Michael Luhm:  

innesota working with his brother Tom on the iron range. He migrated to the Twin Cities shortly thereafter, living on Lake Minnetonka, sailing as much as possible while attending Brown Institute for electronic engineering. In 1977, he married Kathleen and settled in Plymouth, MN where they raised their three children. Despite living out his life in MN, he was always a Californian at heart and retained strong roots with family and friends out west. He also warmed many with his culinary delights of Mexicali cuisine. He was an avid gardener and loved taking the family to the lake for swimming or boating. As a field service engineer for medical equipment, at one point Mike’s work territory covered seven states. Driving to and from locations as needed, his absence was supplemented by frequent calls home from the road and trinkets from his travels. His philosophical and reflective nature was likely strengthened by his time on the road. Mike officially retired from GE after 37 years of service in 2014. Even with so much work travel, Mike enjoyed taking vacations and traveled for leisure every year. In the past year alone, he traveled to AZ, CA, WA, TX and WI all to visit loved ones. He enjoyed hot beaches, lakeside campfires, sailing in the Great Lakes and Pacific NW, and especially had a fondness for the great American road trip. He enjoyed taking different routes to visit CA, resulting in his family getting to see most of the Western US, and his Western US family getting to see more of him. He spent retirement enjoying simple pleasures of life: a good cup of coffee, a long conversation, or a game of cribbage.