Family
Elaine Linden
Paul's wife — a registered nurse, educated at the University of Missouri and William Jewell College, who cared for patients across the Midwest and Texas and was the foundation of the family.
Elaine Linden was Paul’s wife and the foundation of their family. She studied at the University of Missouri and William Jewell College, and worked as a registered nurse, caring for patients across the Midwest — in Missouri — and in Texas.
Through Paul’s unusually demanding career of engineering work, startups, inventions, installations, and constant travel, Elaine was the steady center that made all of it possible — raising their two sons while keeping the family whole.
There is a small, characteristic detail that says a great deal about Paul: his most important patent, U.S. 5,136,426, was issued on August 4, 1992 — Elaine’s birthday. Paul is proud of the coincidence and likes to point it out — a reminder that behind the machines and the milestones is a family life he cares about deeply.
Paul and Elaine raised two sons, John and David.