This past weekend, Canon and I traveled to Minnesota to celebrate the life of my Grandpa, Ed Sovik. He passed away last week after a long battle with Parkinson's. His obituary describes just a few of the amazing accomplishments he achieved throughout his life. Sovik, Edward Anders age 95, of Northfield, May 4, 2014. Born of Lutheran missionaries in Henan Province, China, he left at 17 to enroll in St. Olaf College along with a twin brother and an older sister, graduating in 1939. He went on to study painting at the Art Students League in New York, and later theology at Luther Seminary in St. Paul. After the attack on Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Marine Corps, serving as a night fighter pilot in the Pacific; he was awarded a Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1949, he earned his architecture degree from Yale University and began an architectural practice in Northfield and a teaching career in the St. Olaf art department. While churches were a focus of his prac