Memories of Lynus Erickson

In memory of

Lynus Erickson

Medford, MA, USA

July 22, 1999 - June 22, 2021

Jul 22, 1999 - Jun 22, 2021

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Christian Erickson

2021

Lynus + Molly

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Jane Hammer

Molly Brooks

Bernice Sim

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Joyce Bunten

Elena Daniel

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Christian Erickson

2019

Lynus , Asmund, and Daddy modeling armor painted by Lynus (including his 2nd scratch-built and cast helmet)

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Bernice Sim

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Christian Erickson

2015

Lynus getting started with his first self-modeled and cast Boba Fett helmet

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Bernice Sim

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Joyce Bunten

Ray Young

Elena Daniel

Kieto Mahaniah

Nathan Boerman

Teresa Fung

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Nathan Boerman

I remember you sharing his progress with these helmets. I was awestruck with the attention to detail. He... Read more I remember you sharing his progress with these helmets. I was awestruck with the attention to detail. He was a talented kid,... Read more I remember you sharing his progress with these helmets.... Read more

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Casey Chung

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Mia Chung-Yee

We are so devastated by your loss and the loss to the whole Highrock community. May the Lord’s peace and confidence be yours during this time. We are praying for your family and our church community!
Mia and John Yee

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Dr Kat Patrick

2016, Concord MA

Meeting Lynus and the rest of the family for the first time in person after teaching him online for four years.

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Dr Kat Patrick

2016, Concord, MA

I started teaching Lynus for high school English via an online platform in 2012, and this continued for the next four years as he and my daughter became known as my "Student Zeros" as I built up an international tutorial company for homeschoolers, now entering its tenth year. I have gone on to teach his sister and younger brother, and was thrilled to pieces when we were able to thread our way down the east coast on a long road trip in 2016, making sure we met up with Lynus and his family along the way. It was about this time that I learned I had been pronouncing his name wrong for years and years, as LIE-nus and not LINnus, but I guess this sort of sums up a part of his personality that I experienced - he sort of just went with the flow and didn't seem to get flustered about things that some people could get bent out of shape over. Later, I was very honored to serve as one of his references for his college applications, and was happy to describe his accolades, his achievements, his character, and to close it out with these words: "He is insightful, thoughtful, pleasant, and diligent, and I have no hesitation in recommending him for any program of study he wishes to undertake: I am certain he will do so with both gusto and excellence." What's such a gut-wrenching realization right now is that I can only wonder what he might have become in different circumstances: it would have been whatever he wanted, I have no doubt. I am so, so sad ... so, so sorry for his lovely family, friends, colleagues, and have very comfort to give except to say that he will always be remembered as a pioneer for Dreaming Spires, and that will never, never change.

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2019, Honey Honey Cafe, Main Street, Malden, MA, USA

Erickson Clan

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Lionel Goulet

When someone dies, there's a hole blown in the net. Strings hang unattached. Almost right away though, the rest of the net gathers itself around the hole and knits itself back together. Pieces that hardly ever touched now touch again, if only for a short time. A new net is formed, stronger and closer. Lynus, I will look for you in my garden, man. I 'spect we'll talk.

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Jane Hammer

Bernice Sim

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Lionel Goulet

I went to my garden and listened, as I said I would. I heard. Ask me about it sometime. I went to my garden and listened, as I said I would. I heard. Ask me about it sometime. I went to my garden and listened, as I said I would.... Read more

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Christy Holzworth

2016, Noblesville, IN

Lynus, Astrid and Clay

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Christy Holzworth

A visit after the home school convention in Kentucky. Thank you for stopping by our house. We cherish those... Read more A visit after the home school convention in Kentucky. Thank you for stopping by our house. We cherish those memories always! ... Read more A visit after the home school convention in Kentucky.... Read more

Steven Ryan

Christian, Shelley, Astrid and Asmond - Trish and I can't imagine the sorrow and pain you all are going through. We are so sorry for your loss. We will keep you all in our thoughts and prayers. I truly loved Lynus, A great young man, a man of faith, an awesome son, brother, friend, compassionate, artistically creative, musically talented and all around great guy. I treasured the conversations I had with him and I'm heartbroken that I can't have another

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Chaline Thande

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Chaline Thande

We are so sad to hear about your beloved Lynus. We are praying for you and your family.

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Lauren Leese

2016, Concord, MA, USA

The first time I ever met Lynus in person was a few years after I got to know him on an online class. My family met up with his family in a small historic town in Massachusetts, outside a coffee shop. It was June, just a month before both of our birthdays, me almost sixteen and him almost seventeen. I remember he was wearing sunglasses, and when he saw me the first thing he said was, “Wow. It’s been four years!”

We talked nonstop for the entire trip. We yelled at Henry Thoreau's grave for writing the most boring book we had to read together for school. We joked about the evil alter egos we’d created in an online role play forum with other kids from our class (his was called James Skywalker). At one point, he told me about his experiments with 3D printing, and gave me a tiny plastic unicorn head that he’d tried to make. The horn and ears were pretty deformed, so it looked like some kind of weird alien giraffe, but I still thought it was the coolest thing ever. He’d used a kind of plastic that was usually white but turned purple in sunlight. I probably still have it somewhere.

We ate lunch together — at the time he was vegetarian, though by college he’d started eating meat again. When we said goodbye, we laughed about how the make and model of his mom’s car, a Honda Fit, was called a Honda Jazz in the UK. At the time, I assumed we might never see each other in person again, so I’m eternally grateful that we ended up going to nearby colleges and having a few more days like that one, full of shared memories and coffee and Star Wars theories.

The last time I ever saw him in person (April 17, 2021), he was driving that Honda Fit himself, with a rack fitted to the top for skis.

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Kristin Wensel

We are so heartbroken. Lynus, we love you. Shelley, Christian, Astrid and Asmond, there are no words sufficient to express the sorrow and loss. Our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with you. We are so, so sorry.

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