Sad news arrived last week in a text message from Dad that Uncle Daniel had passed on to his eternal reward. He had been preceded in death by Marie, his wife of sixty-three years (the photograph to the left was taken in 1990; see here for the post on Marie’s passing).
Daniel was born 26 September 1930, the third child but first son of Grandpa Chris and Grandma Malinda. Like all of his brothers and sisters, Daniel was raised on the Buller farm a mile south of Lushton (see here). According to his obituary (here), he graduated from Lushton High School in 1948.
In the aftermath of the severe blizzards of 1948–1949, I am told, Daniel wanted to help with Operation Haylift, in which U.S. Air Force cargo planes dropped hay bales to cattle stranded on the plains. Grandpa overruled that idea, but it may well have been a hint of things to come.
Daniel and Marie married on 25 April 1951. Shortly thereafter Daniel enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, serving from 1951 to 1955 in the Korean Conflict. Upon his return, he and Marie and their growing family farmed first in the Lushton area (they lived down the street from us in Lushton for a while) and then north of Bradshaw (see here); in the early 1970s Daniel and family moved to a large farming operation north of O’Neill.
Upon his retirement, Daniel and Marie moved to Torrington, Wyoming, where they both lived until their respective deaths.
The memorial service for Daniel is taking place even as I write; a second memorial will take place in the Lushton Community Bible Church later this year, followed by burial of his ashes in the Mennonite (Buller) Cemetery north of Lushton.
Our thoughts are prayers are with Daniel’s sisters and brothers, his children Sheryl, Stan, Brenda, Debbie, Denise, Michael, and the twenty-five grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren he leaves behind.
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