Lyle I. Strand

Lyle Ingmar Strand was born on Friday, October 12, 1934 at his parents' home in Richland County, rural Abercrombie, North Dakota. His parents were Ingmar and Ruth Gunness Strand. He was the youngest of six children. His two sisters were Rachel, who married Glenn Fixen and Naomi, who married Arley Lyseng. His brothers were Percy Judy, Donald Betty Lou and Irving Shirley.He attended Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Abercrombie while growing up. His elementary education grades one through eight was spent in a one-room country school near Home. He attended high school at Abercrombie High School from which he graduated as Valedictorian of his graduating class of 1952. That same year he joined the United States Naval Reserve serving for ten years.He earned a Bachelors of Art degree with a major in Economics and a minor in Math Education from Concordia College, Moorhead in 1956. He worked at Fargo National Bank from 1956 to 1957. In the fall of 1957, he began his teaching career at Hawley Public School, where he taught junior high mathematics. Lyle married Shirley Moe June 14, 1958 at Tingvold Lutheran Church near Underwood, Minnesota. In 1960, he earned his Master's of Science degree in Mathematics from Minnesota State University-Moorhead. During his teaching years, he was advisor to various classes and advisor to the Future Teachers of America and the National Honor Society. Because of his health, he was forced to retire from teaching in March, 1976.He was able to remain at his home in Hawley until May of 2002. Then, because of complications due to multiple sclerosis, he moved to Sunnyside Care Center near Lake Park until 2004 when he became a resident of the Viking Manor Nursing Home in Ulen, Minnesota.He and Shirley raised three sons. Bryan lives in Hawley. Barry and his wife Charlene lives in Paynesville, MN, with their two children, Brody and Sophia. Bradley and his wife Renae live in Pelican Rapids, MN, with their three daughters, Mackenzie, Bailey and Katelyn.Lyle and Shirley are members of Hawley Alliance Church where Lyle once served as treasurer.Lyle had a wonderful sunny disposition and when you asked him how he was, he would always reply "I can't complain."Lyle was preceded in death by his parents, both sisters and one brother, Donald.Lyle is survived by his wife and three sons and their families; brothers, Percy Judith Strand, Wahpeton, ND, Irving Shirley Strand, Rice Lake, WI; brother-in-law, Glenn Fixen, Galchutt, ND; sister-in-law, Betty Lou Strand, Kindred, ND, and many cousins, nieces and nephews.