90 years

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Across
  1. 2. brand of Dad’s first car
  2. 4. Dad’s dad’s middle name
  3. 5. position Dad played on college basketball team
  4. 8. Dad’s middle name
  5. 9. the Minnesotan native who made the 1st nonstop flight from NY to Paris in 1927
  6. 13. year of Dad’s first hole-in-one
  7. 14. in 1944, he was elected to a fourth term as U.S. President
  8. 15. number of years between holes-in-one
  9. 16. hit Dad in the head, requiring stitches, while spectating the state boy’s bb tournament
  10. 18. branch of military Dad served in for WWII
  11. 21. famous Scottish golf course Dad played in 1988
  12. 23. sport Dad refereed for many years
  13. 24. name of the Canadian lake Dad fished (hint- same as Mom’s high school alma mater)
  14. 26. 1944 Academy Award Best Picture (hint- As Time Goes By)
  15. 27. Gophers opponent in the 1961 Rose Bowl game that Dad attended
  16. 28. career change in 1986
  17. 30. the number of Vikings appearances in Super Bowl games
  18. 31. the only language Dad’s mom (Eleonora) spoke until she was 19
Down
  1. 1. Minneapolis team that won the 1953 NBA Championship
  2. 3. U.S. president in 1927
  3. 5. Dad’s Grandpa Loomis’s name
  4. 6. the name of the South Pacific island where Dad was stationed during WWII
  5. 7. age when Dad enlisted the military
  6. 10. Dad’s college friend who was U.S. VP under President Carter
  7. 11. 1944 NCAA Football champions
  8. 12. favorite flavor of Dad’s cream pie
  9. 13. invented in 1944 to protect soldiers from sunburn
  10. 17. Dad sold this for his first job after college
  11. 19. the college Dad attended
  12. 20. Dad’s favorite holiday seafood
  13. 22. the nationally ranked #1 football team for 1961
  14. 25. Dad’s hometown
  15. 29. the team won the World Series in 1987 and 1991