Clarence Edward Lunden

Clarence Edward Lunden was a construction superintendent, who also worked as a laboring brother in his latter years among the TW exclusive brethren. He is to be credited for founding a resource in the 1970's that chronicles family information to help people pray for and know one another, known as "Greet the Friends", that has been since continued by other editors.

He was born on June 19, 1904 and raised in Pasadena, California. In the mid 1980's, he served as a correspondent at the Knoxville Meeting Room in Illinois.

On Jan. 12, 1995, Clarence was promoted to Glory, in Knoxville, Illinois.

The Orange Tree

A story is recollected of a job he did for a wealthy shipper from Greece who purchased a house in Southern California, and Clarence was working on the house, and the fellow said, "my wife wants to have a garden party tomorrow night, and she wondered if you might be able to plant a fully grown orange tree with lights on it, without wires showing. He planted the tree, and leaded the wires into the bark of the tree, and shielded the lights, and one flipped a switch and had a lit orange tree.

Sources

• Ancestry.com
• Findagrave.com
• EB/TW AAB's
• "The Orange Tree" was recollected by John Sutherland of the Walla Walla Meeting Room, WA, in Nov. 2021.