The Obituary and Life Story of Eugene Charles Linderkamp

July 5, 1929-October 5, 2025

Eugene (Gene) Linderkamp was born on a farm northeast of Rockford, Iowa on July 5, 1929, to Charles and Luise (Gillman) Linderkamp. This was the same farm, house, and bed that welcomed his father Charles 38 years earlier!

Gene’s first 8 years of formal education were taught in a one-room country schoolhouse near Rockford. For 7 of those years, he was the only student in his class. While a freshman at Rockford High School, he took a course called General Science which included a section studying electronics and radios. This fascinated him and led to him taking a correspondence course to learn how to repair radios. His days were spent attending school and helping on the farm, and his evenings studying electronics. At 16 he opened a radio repair shop on the family farm. He graduated from Rockford High School in 1948.

After graduation, he moved his radio repair business to a building on Main Street in Rockford. Lindy’s Repair Shop was a successful business for several years. His life then had a significant change-the Korean War. He enlisted in the US Navy and left for duty on March 5, 1951. He served at the Navy Basic Training Center, the Navy Electronics School in San Francisco, on tours of Japan and Korea aboard the USS Jason ARH-1, US Navy Sonar School in San Diego, and on another tour of Japan on the USS Comstock LSD-29. Gene was Honorably Discharged in February of 1957.

After leaving the service, he began his professional career at Electrodata, a computer manufacturing company in Pasadena, CA. Electrodata was later bought out by Burroughs Corp. for whom he worked for 31 years. His career as a computer electrical engineer took him to Chicago, St. Louis, Waterloo, IA, Pasadena, Philadelphia, Colorado Springs, and Denver CO. He retired in Minneapolis, MN in 1998.

Gene met and married Helen Peugh in Pasadena in 1962. They had three children-Charles (Chuck) Minneapolis, MN, Andrew (Andy) of Albuquerque, NM, and Ann of Bangor, ME. In 1972, Helen was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that left her a quadriplegic in 1974. She passed away in June 1980 at the age of 46.

In 1982 he reconnected with a dear friend of the family, Marilyn Gable. Marilyn had been Christian Education director at the Linderkamp’s church Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Littleton, CO. Now living in Des Moines, IA, their long-distance romance resulted in them being married on Marilyn’s birthday, June 22, 1986. They each relocated to Minneapolis, where Marilyn owned her parent’s home. She became Director of Christian Education at

Diamond Lake Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. She retired in 1995 as a Deacon of the ELCA.

In 1997, Gene and Marilyn started their time as “snowbirds”, spending winters in Arizona. They moved to Tucson permanently in 2006. They were members of New Spirit Lutheran Church in Tucson, a church they both loved deeply. In 2020 their failing health led to them living at the Provencio Hope Assisted Living Home in Tucson. Marilyn passed away on April 10, 2024, at the age of 93.

Gene is preceded in death by his parents, his sisters Laura Marie, Shirley and Agnes (Kramer). His first wife, Helen, and his second wife, Marilyn. His grandparents, and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. He is survived by his children Chuck and Kathleen (Carda) Linderkamp, Andy, Ann and Joe Marceca, as well as grandchildren Nathan Marceca and Helen (Marceca) and Triston Berringer. He has 2 great-grandchildren, William and Thomas Berringer. He is also survived by several cousins, 6 nephews and their many offspring!

A Service of Celebration of Life will be held at New Spirit Lutheran Church, 8701 E. Old Spanish Trail, Tucson, AZ 85710 on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 10:00am.