DWAYNE LINDGREN

Funeral services for Dwayne are 1 p.m., Monday, December 6, at the Wagner Community Church in Wagner. Visitation will be the hour prior to services at the church. Burial is in the Highland Cemetery, Fairfax, with military honors. Peters Funeral Home in Wagner is in charge of arrangements.

Dwayne Elvis Lindgren, Gone Home on Friday, Nov. 26, 2021 at Avantara Armour hospice care, Armour, at the age of 90 years.

He was born to Rhuben Emerel and Frieda Christina (Gall) Lindgren on Sept 10, 1931 on the family farm which his Grandpa Charlie had named Sunnybrook Farm. This was located six miles east of Fairfax and about a mile north along section line roads. He attended Star Valley School, which was about a two-mile walk one way. He actually had to walk uphill both ways through the snow due to the section line roads meeting at a creek crossing a mile east of the school.

His family later sold that place and moved to a farm two miles east of Fairfax, and he briefly attended high school at Fairfax. He dropped out to help on the family farm. He spent most of his life working on that farm, except for a hitch in the U.S. Army, from Jan 28, 1953 -Jan 1955. While on leave from the Army, he married Betty Lou Fotheringham on October 4, 1953 at Hope Congregational Church, Fairfax. He loved attending Calvary

Baptist Church, which he and his father had helped build. He especially loved singing the old Gospel songs, The Old Rugged Cross, On Calvary, Amazing Grace, and others. He believed in helping his farm neighbors when needed and on occasion, they found opportunities to help him back.

He was the “go to” guy for family genealogy, and his other hobby was tractors, both the big ones, and after poor health forced his retirement from farming, his collection of toy tractors and other farm memorabilia.

His big, loving heart has ceased his struggles, and he leaves behind his wife, Betty Lou, plus his six children - Rene, Rodney, Randel, Rylan, Robert and Rachel, eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, four step-great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, one sister, a large number of cousins and countless friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, an older brother who died at age three, his parents-in-law and a granddaughter.