FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 22, 2006
CONTACT: Sarah Lingenfelter, Media Relations 585.567.9559

RETIRED HOUGHTON PROFESSOR PASSES AWAY

Former Houghton College Professor Emeritus Dr. Kenneth Lindley passed away on Saturday, February 18 in South Jersey Hospital, Elmer. He was 81.

Lindley came to Houghton College in 1963 as a professor of physics and mathematics. He also served as chairman of the division of science and mathematics. He taught at Houghton until his retirement in 1989.

Visitation will be at the Kopler-Williams Funeral Home in Fillmore on Thursday, February 23, from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. On Friday, February 24, visitation will take place at the Houghton Wesleyan Church beginning at 9:00 a.m. with the funeral beginning at 11:00 a.m. The Rev. Wesley Oden will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Houghton.

Enlisting in the U.S. Navy in World War II, Lindley studied at the College of St. Thomas and later earned a bachelor’s from the University of Wisconsin. There he met his future wife, Katherine Walberger, whom he married in 1948. Following discharge from the Navy, he earned a master’s from the University of Wisconsin and began his teaching career at South Dakota State College. In 1953 he earned his doctorate from the University of Iowa.

Surviving besides his wife, Katherine, are his children Lois Jordan of Pilesgrove, N.J., Margaret Koch of Minneapolis, Minn., Eileen Williams of Newark, Del., and Mark Lindley of Ann Arbor, Mich.; 14 beloved grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.