Editing Tim LaHaye (section)

===Early life===
Timothy Francis LaHaye was born on April 27, 1926, in [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]], to Frank LaHaye, a [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] auto worker who died in 1936 of a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]], and Margaret LaHaye (née Palmer). His father's death had a significant influence on LaHaye, who was only nine years old at the time. He had been inconsolable until the minister at the funeral said, "This is not the end of Frank LaHaye; because he accepted [[Jesus Christ]], the day will come when the Lord will shout from [[heaven]] and descend, and the dead in Christ will rise first and then we'll be caught up together to meet him in the air."<ref>Cited in {{Cite news |last=Lampman |first=Jane |date=February 18, 2004 |title=The end of the world |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0218/p11s01-lire.html |access-date=March 12, 2024 |work=[[Christian Science Monitor]] |issn=0882-7729}}</ref><!-- Found reference from 2004, better to find original 2003 interview quoted -->

LaHaye later said that, upon hearing those remarks, "all of a sudden, there was hope in my heart I'd see my father again."<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Lampman |first=Jane |date=February 18, 2004 |title=The end of the world |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0218/p11s01-lire.html |access-date=March 12, 2024 |work=[[Christian Science Monitor]] |issn=0882-7729}}</ref>

LaHaye enlisted in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] in 1944, at the age of 18,<ref name=":0" /> after he finished high school. He served in the [[European Theater of Operations]] as a [[machine gun]]ner aboard a bomber.<ref name="dreyfuss"/> Then he studied at [[Bob Jones University]] in [[Greenville, South Carolina]], where he met his wife, Beverly, and obtained a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1950. LaHaye held the [[Doctor of Ministry]] degree from [[Western Seminary]].<ref name="NYTMC"/>