Hot Then The Monsoon

It has been a hottie this past week until the monsoon weather blew in from the east on Sunday. Colorado is getting rain, we are getting the humidity with few scattered showers. However it was an enough of a reprieve to get my garden and flower beds weeded. Hurray for that! I am getting zuchnini,  peppers and onions. The tomatoes and beans are blooming. I have been blessed with the best garden I have ever had at this homestead. The leaf hopper populations are down and that has helped immensely!

I have my BNA class for only three more weeks then I will be looking forward to my next big adventure, my trip to Europe.

These are the places that Linda and I will be visiting on our 18 day tour. It is an exiting time for me to be able to finally travel overseas to Europe. The trip to New Zealand that Brian and I took in 2011was fabulous and I am sure this trip will be just as interesting and educational.

Speaking of Brian, it would have been his sixty first birthday last Wednesday, July 10th. It was his Uncle Don Hyde's birthday also. Unfortunately I heard that Uncle Don was gravely ill on Tuesday night. He was going to be ninety.  He did make to his birthday and then passed away. Uncle Don was a great help to Brian's Mom after his Dad died and a part of many of our holiday celebrations. He will be sorrily missed by all.

In Memory of

Donald E.
"Don"
Hyde

Obituary for Donald Hyde

DON E. HYDE

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Don E. Hyde, age 90 of Lodgepole, NE passed away at the Sidney Regional Medical 

Center, Wednesday, July 10, 2013.Rosary Services will be held at 6:00 P.M., Monday, July

 15th with a Funeral Mass at 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, July 16th. Both services will be in the 

St. Patrick’s Catholic Church with Father Art Faesser officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant

 View Cemetery north of Lodgepole. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Monday

 from 1-4:00 P.M. Gehrig-Stitt Chapel & Cremation Service, LLC is in charge of Don’s

 care and funeral arrangements.

Don E. Hyde, the son of John W. and Eleanor M. (McNiff) Hyde, was born on July 10,

1923 at his parent’s farm home north of Lodgepole, Nebraska in the Weyerts Community.

 He was the fourth of five children raised on the family farm and graduated from Lodgepole 

High School in 1941.

Don attended Hastings Business College from 1941 to 1943 and worked as a Senior Clerk 

Typist for the Personnel Placement Center in Washington DC. During World War II, he was 

drafted into the U.S. Army, while attending Engineering School at the University of Nebraska

 in Lincoln. He served in the Army combat Engineers during the war from 1943 to 1945

 in France and Germany.

On February 15, 1947 Don was united in marriage to Mildred M. Groeger at the Sacred Heart 

Catholic Church in Peetz, Colorado. Together they raised a family of five children in Lodgepole. 

Don was a lifelong farmer north of Lodgepole and a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service 

for 29 years.

He served as a school board member for District 6 country school near Lisco, Nebraska from 

1948-49 and as treasure on the Lodgepole School Board, when the new high school was built.

 He was a trustee of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Lodgepole, a member of the Lions Club

 and the Trailblazers Antique Automobile Club.

Don was a lifetime member of the American Legion and a lifetime member for the VFW, Post 

7002 Chappell, NE. With the American Legion, he also served as Post Commander Ed Cain

 309 in Lisco, as Post Commander Francis DeBrunner 286 in Lodgepole, as Chef Dejare 

40&8, and as Voiture 1428 Post.

Don was pilot and enjoyed golfing, boating, skiing, fishing and scuba diving. He was faithfully 

devoted to his wife Mildred for 57 years and they spent many winters at Lake Montezuma 

Arizona during their retirement. Don continued to enjoy stays in Arizona up until this year.

Don passed away on his 90th birthday July 10, 2013. He is preceded in death by his loving 

wife Mildred, his son Neal and infant son Duane. He is survived by his children Elaine Crane,

 Keith Hyde, Patricia Hall, Janet Ott, seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.