Donald Lemire

Donald Edward Lemire, born October 16th, 1929 to Howard and Emma (Peterson) Lemire in Minneapolis, Minnesota, died November 24th in his Webster, Wisconsin home. Husband, father, scholar (Roosevelt High Salutatorian, '46), U.S. Army veteran, poet, golfer, deist, logician, romantic, quirky enigma, and much more to those who knew and loved him. In his working life he was employed by the State of Minnesota, the Minneapolis Star, J.C. Penney's, Dayton-Hudson Corp., Munsingwear, and R.J. Carroll Co. In retirement, Don served as a substitute teacher in several Burnett county schools and worked part-time for Northwest Passage. Survived by the love, care, and devotion he gave to his bride of sixty years, Barbara (White); the pride in his children, Bradley (Kristen Christensen), Susan (Ronald) Wohlfarth, Steven (Susan), and Nancy (Gary Moore) Harbour; and the love of his grandchildren, Richard, Michael, Leah, and Tera. Also survived by the stars and factoids he pointed out, by the birds he identified and fed and the "dirty birds" he tailgated, by the poems he wrote and the books he read (especially Cyrano de Bergerac), by his handyman projects and the worn-out tools (see Kipling) he repaired with wire and duct tape, and by his frustration with the Gophers, the Twins, and the Vikings. Already missed is his subtle humor, his logical pronouncements, his wolfish grin, his encyclopedic knowledge, the stroke-by-stroke accounts of every golf hole he ever played, and the sense that he was carefully watching everything and taking it all in to be filed away and pulled out at appropriate (or not) moments. Donald's family is planning a memorial service for a later date. Arrangements were entrusted to Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Webster. Online condolences may be expressed at www.swedberg-taylor.com.