David Lundy

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BIOGRAPHY

Not knowing enough about my near-immediate family led to work on my genealogy, to help see if I could better understand what shaped us. I think that many people study their family lineage in the hope of discovering something special, like a famous ancestor. What happens instead is more special; we find names and dates, and often very little else about people whose lives and problems were just as important to them as ours are to us. Now they are facts on a page. This means all my little troubles will one day be forgotten, too, as I lose myself into the whole of existence. I find this freeing. You can be special, but only in the present, and in the memories of those left behind.

My genealogy is full of Quaker roots, and out of curiosity I attended a meeting, to get a feel for what my ancestors were like. Long story short, my wife and I now attend Quaker meetings weekly, and I have joined the Religious Society of Friends Buffalo Monthly Meeting. There's an example of genealogy changing someone's life!

As long as I can recall, I have wanted to entertain people, and to that end, I studied theater at Niagara University, and have worked off and on as a professional actor, singer, and voice-over artist. Falling into a good job with a public utility, I worked there for over 30 years, and finished my career as a member of the Operations Department. Having the good fortune to be able to retire at a young age, I have returned to the stage, occasionally working with my wife, who is a jazz singer.

My hobbies include physical fitness (running, bicycling, hiking) and travel throughout the U.S. After my wife, the great love in my life is my dog.

SOURCES

• First-hand information, and the recollection of family members.

• Family documents.

• Ella E. Van Pelt Tilden, "Van Pelt Genealogy", 1930

• Smith, Effie M., "A Genealogy of the Van Pelt Family, compiled by Effie M. Smith From Records of Family, Church, State and Nation" 1913

• Armstrong, William C., The Lundy Family and Their Descendants of Whatsoever Surname with a Biographical Sketch of Benjamin Lundy, (A.M.), Print, 1902, Online at Archive.Org

• Lunday, Betty Petersen, “The Lundy Family and Their Descendants Book II", Print, 1993

• Lunday, Betty Petersen, “Supplement to The Lundy Family and Their Descendants Book II", Print, 1995

• Find A Grave

Note to Future Genealogists

You will find my name and birth date engraved beneath my late wife's name (Mary E. McDonough Lundy) on a columbarium in the churchyard of St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, on Grand Island, New York, USA. My remains will not be there, and neither will a date of death. Life never goes the way you expect.

Entered by David Lundy