Spirit of St. Columbkille: The Lynams

Tomorrow the Spirit of St. Columbkille Award will be presented to Marge and the late Link Lynam at the Ceili. It’s not a surprise that faith has always been a big part of Marge and Link Lynam’s lives, because they first met at St. Patrick’s Church. Marge had started to slip and Link had come to her rescue. Marge said, “Link’s family was so devout their dog wouldn’t eat meat on a Friday.”

Link and Marge celebrated 61 years of marriage, and have been parishioners at St. Columbkille Church for 43 of those years. Link, a pharmacist and avid baseball fan, owned and operated Lynam Drug. They moved their family to Papillion in 1968, relocating the drug store to Tara Plaza.

They were blessed with seven children; four of their younger children attended Sacred Heart Academy, now known as St. Columbkille Catholic School. Link was happy when Fr. Steinhausen was assigned to the parish in 1970 because they had been classmates at Creighton Prep.

In the 1980’s, the Lynam’s were members of “Renew”, a national program offered at St. Columbkille that provided adult formation through small groups. Marge was involved with the Women’s Guild, serving as President in 1982, and Link served as an Usher for many years. They later became involved with SPIRITuality ALIVE.

Service to the parish and the community was such a normal and natural part of their lives that Link and Marge never asked, “why”; they just did it.