Arne Lobben

The last seven weeks have been some of the most challenging of my life when I lost one of my best friends and biggest role models on October 29th, 2021. Grandpa, thank you for teaching me to be strong and work hard no matter what life throws at you. Thank you for giving up your lifelong dream of becoming a ship captain, and "sailing the high seas", to find and build a family with a stubborn and loving Irishwoman. I am devastated that you won't be able to see my white coat ceremony or...

Grandpa - you are, and you will always be, greatly missed. Thank you for your kindness, love, and height. I will cherish our time together and I will keep your voice, laughter, and love for dogs forever close to my heart.

This is sad news but I'm sure he had a life well-lived. Arne was always a pleasure to work with and be around. He was funny and truly a nice person.

A life well-lived - you will not be forgotten. You and mom created a home for us that was our anchor throughout our lives. I cherish all the memories and now you two are together again. Always - your baby Peg

He passed away suddenly last Friday at the age of 93, exactly as he wanted: quickly and at home. Even though he lived a long life his loss is still heart wrenching to his family. It´s funny, his lifelong dream until the age of 27 was to be a ship´s captain in the Norwegian merchant marines, and one blind date in NYC in the mid 1950s changed his entire life, when he met his match, a spirited Irish American woman, my mother in law Frances. He got married, started working in a dairy in the...

For everything I learned just by listening to you, for the friendship, and for all of the laughter-thank you. Thank you for blessing our lives with your light and your love. Thank you for sharing your stories with us, so that they may live on in our hearts, so that we now know them by heart. Through your memories, you allowed us to journey into the past with you. We were with you every time you set sail, every time you saw grandma on that blind date for the first time, every time you thought...

My first sentence was "pa workin' on boat" and I hope you're on one right now, sailing into the sunset with Grandma. Thanks for being my engineer inspiration: I know I'll always be able to take stuff apart and put it back together since I've watched you do that my whole life. To our strong Norwegian sailor, manga takk, jeg elsker deg, skal!