Lynn Craig Cunningham

Lynn Craig Cunningham (Craig) was born to Lynn Dwight and Margaret Henderson Cunningham in Newton, Iowa on March 13, 1933 and died at home in Los Angeles, California on December 7, 2020, from cancer. He and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1944 and, except for two years with the U.S. Army in San Antonio, he never lived anywhere else, being a true Angeleno. He graduated from Notre Dame High School in Van Nuys, and from from Occidental College in 1955 where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. Craig received a Masters of Arts from California State University at Northridge in 1960 and obtained his Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Los Angeles 1976. His dissertation was a most readable history of Venice, California. He spent most of his professional career at UCLA where he retired as Associate Dean of Students in the late 1990’s. In the summer of 1966, he was one of two faculty advisors to travel to India with about 20 UCLA students as part of Project India, a exceptional experience for all of them. Among his other enjoyments in life, he loved to travel and it was on a trip to Italy in 2010 that he and Deirdre fell in love. They were married in 2011 in Los Angeles, much to the shock of Craig’s friends who knew him to be a confirmed bachelor. He is survived by his wife Deirdre Darling Ford, his brother Paul Cunningham and wife Mary of Los Alamos, New Mexico; his three beloved nephews: David and wife Vicky of Lena, Wisconsin, Robert and wife Maria of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Alan of Crested Butte, Colorado; and his adored great niece Hannah and great nephew Landon Cunningham.