Lloyd Person served in the Canadian military in WW II, where he was wounded. His later phlebitis was attributed to a motorcycle accident in the military. (His cousin Marion Bowman believes he eventually lost his right leg late in life due to phlebitis.) His service provided him with a stipend so he could long continue his education, usually on scholarships. In fact he liked to call himself a professional student. He studied two years at the Univ. of Washington, when he visited his cousin Marion’s home nearly every weekend. He completed a Ph.D. (in French literature on Balzac) and later, it was said, another doctorate in Anthropology.

For a few years starting in 1959 or 1960 he taught French at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. Later he served at the Univ. of Regina in Saskatchewan where, among other things, he coordinated a film, lecture, and concert series.

Lloyd studied several years in France as early as 1949, and he visited his Uncle Nils in Stockholm and his Aunt Maria on the Windh farm in Sweden several times. He spent a year living with Dorothy (Windh) Maurstad near Fontanebleau in 1953-54 while he worked on his Balzac dissertation.

Lloyd was widely traveled, spoke several languages (perhaps as many as seven), played several musical instruments well (especially the classical guitar), and wrote several books, mostly about early times in his life and the family. One of them, titled GROWING UP IN MINBY, may be based on experiences from Lloyd’s own youth. In materials sent to John Windh by Marion Bowman one can read 15 pages excerpted from that book, imaginary incidents from 1929 and on. In a letter to Marion from 1979, also in those materials, Lloyd points out which characters in MINBY are modeled after which of his family.

In May of 2014 John Windh can locate neither those MINBY pages nor that letter from Lloyd to Marion, but he has purchased a copy of GROWING UP IN MINBY at amazon.com.