Remembering classmate Lynn Anderson

Lynn Anderson - 1960 Sheyenne Yearbook

Lynn Anderson, our classmate through his junior year, died on January 6, 2015. Lynn suffered from Alzheimer's disease and has been living in a memory care home in Moorhead, Minn. No services are planned. To date, no obituary has been filed with either the Times-Record or the Fargo Forum. We offer our blessings and sympathy to Lynn's family. - from Diane (Sauer) Hughes in the Hiliners61 e-Newsletter.

I remember Lynn as a tall, lean, good lookin' guy who had a similar but better hairstyle than "Fonzie" from Happy Days. I recall he was a friendly fellow who was liked by all his classmates. He had a big interest in cars and customizing them, I recall.

In Diane's newsletter, she included some thoughts from various classmates (please leave your remembrances using the "Comments" section below. Here the comments she received so far:

"I remember Lynn at the skating rink. He was always so polite and and kind to everyone."

"I still remember when he came out for track and ran that 440 as fast as he could and all his muscles tightening up. He never came out after that...bless his memory."

"I think he still has the record for the fastest rope climb in the old gym when 'Bud' would give us the gym test. He also was a tiger in the old commando basketball that "Bud" made us play. A boxing glove on one hand and you could punch the person with the ball. I also remember the old Duster Road Club. Good memories."

"I appreciate the good memories shared about Lynn. Sadness and relief are mixed together as his life on Earth is finished. Lynn was surely a handsome man as I see him in my memory. He was an amazing ice skater, a hard one to catch at Pioneer Park."

Diane adds:  "As I looked for information about Lynn in our yearbooks, I found that he was on the football team as a freshman, along with so many other guys from the Class of 1961." - Lynn is circled in red; click on picture for larger image. The image is a little fuzzy but that's the way the original appeared in the yearbook.

1959-60 Hiliners football team - that's Lynn circled in red

"Lynn was in the school choir all three years. In one of the photos he was noted as one of the booming basses. As a sophomore, he was a member of the boys' quartet."

Did any of you keep in touch with Lynn after high school? Please share your memories in the "comments" section below. God bless the memory of Lynn Anderson.