I’m
So sorry I just found this I worked at the walgreens on veterans he would come in all the time 

I knew Tim when I was a child and he was a good  friend to my  mother. 
He was fun to be around! 

 Talking with Tim was like talking with a popcorn maker. He came up with more ideas than you could keep up with. Often when talking he would gaze into the air, think, and then have a clear, concise, simple, but profound statement of fact. We was kind and thoughtful to everyone, though a very private man, he could still be outgoing and gregarious. When my wife and I married, Tim welcomed me as though I was an old trusted friend. Never solicitous but  engaging to all, a real friend. My wife Deborah and I went to Tim's house one afternoon and found him over on the side of his house, up a ladder, clad only in wrinkled cargo shorts and deck shoes, and installing his own custom-designed Solar Panel for his shower. That was typical Tim! He helped us engineer a complex French drain system in our water-logged yard, and it still works to this day, over thirty years later. I will always remember Tim Dunlap as a kind, thoughtful, simple, but very brilliant man.

Lover of fine wines and beautiful women, John Timlin Dunlap's brain was like a Stradivarius! Einstein had nothing on Timlin! Brilliant cannot describe his intellect. He had the swagger of Errol Flynn, sweetness of Jimmy Stewart, and charm of Cary Grant! This duality of handsome body and engaging brain, more than any other aspect, served to complicate his desired contemplative self sufficiency.A Renaissance Man, philosopher, and completely developed generalist, his wealth of knowledge spanned every subject. We would stay up all night in philosophic discussion, then go find a creek and go for a dip! Whether discussing metaphysics or epistemology his brain was always working along rational lines as well as playful mischief. His duality of intellect and fun was present in all he did and sought.Thinking was fun, especially if it was followed with mindless play.We lived in the same neighborhood again and again. We were inseparable for years. I remember him in the early 1970's when he would enter a room swirling a cape. In 1980 he had the second desktop, an Apple, and he made it play Happy Birthday for me; it seemed miraculous.As for women - He loved perfected beauty, a five pound weight loss was essential to even the most beautiful, plastic-surgeon sculpted body. He was particular about attire, class, and ladylikeness. He was filled with gentility for the lesser among us, particularly animals. Once at a bull fight in Mexico while with an International Multidisciplinary Brain Trust, who though intellectuals all, were in part from countries where Machismo was celebrated, and, as the Matador was gored several times, I, lightly covered, but bikini-clad, abruptly left and walked back to my hotel room. Later he told me how he wished he could have left, but under the circumstances could not depart with the resulting loss of face. He was a real man with the dilemmas of a gentile spirit, great intellect, and yet, a military carriage and presence of mind.

In approximately 1990, I was in London on business and cousin Tim was there doing research. We hadn't seen each other much, but here we were finally in the same city! He came right over to my hotel and we had a great afternoon. I remember him marching  around the room enthusiastically gesticulating and explaining his research and then genealogy. Even then, he was very interested in our family genealogy. He was so good at keeping in touch with me, he'd just pick up the phone and call! I really appreciated that-it's the way we figured out our paths could cross in London!  I also appreciated Tim taking the train from Georgia to Virginia to attend my father's funeral in 1989 even though his own father was ill. 

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John "Tim" Timlin Dunlap PhD

29 February, 1940 – 5 September, 2021

Striffler-Hamby Mortuary - Columbus

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