Lyle Fries

Lyle L. Fries, 76, of Cairo, formerly of Dannebrog, died Friday, April 7, 2006, at St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Dannebrog. The Rev. Robert Carlson, Jr. will officiate. Burial will be in the Oakridge Cemetery in Dannebrog with military honors at graveside by the Mickelsen-Larkowski American Legion Post No. 241 of Dannebrog.

Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul.

Mr. Fries was born Nov. 12, 1929, southwest of Dannebrog to Harry H. and Alice (Myers) Fries.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Dora Jean on Aug. 16, 1990.

Survivors of the immediate family include his wife, Margaret of Cairo; five sons and four daughters-in-law, Dennis and Loretta Fries of Grand Island, Daniel Fries of Aurora, Colo., William and Shelly Fries and James & Monica Fries of Dannebrog and Chris and Lindsey Nemetz of Atkinson; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Kathleen and Butch Hurst of Grand Island, Linda and Dan Mostek of Boelus and Jill Nemetz of Palatine, Ill.

Also surviving are 19 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren and numerous brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.

Mr. Fries was raised southwest of Dannebrog and attended rural school District No. 29. He then attended Dannebrog High School where he graduated in 1948. He then served in the US Army.

He was united in marriage to Dora Jean Reimers on April 19, 1952, in Prince George, Va. The couple lived in Anchorage, Ala. while he was serving in the Army.

After receiving his discharge on Jan. 21, 1954, the couple lived and farmed in the Dannebrog area. At the same time, he also worked for the sugar beet factory, Redmans and the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant in Grand Island, and Christensen Plumbing in Dannebrog. He served as a rural mail carrier for 25 years.

After his wife's death in 1990, Lyle continued to live in Dannebrog.

Lyle was united in marriage to Margaret Krajewski Nemetz on June 14, 1991, in Farwell. The couple moved to Cairo in January 1992. Lyle continued to carry mail in Dannebrog until retiring in 1994.

Lyle loved sporting events, especially attending ones that his grandchildren were participating in. He liked to hunt, fish, watch Husker baseball and football, antique cars, gardening, watching ducks and playing cards at the Danish Baker and Whiskey River in Dannebrog, the Gold Nugget in Boelus and the Platt-Duetsche in Grand Island.

He was an avid supporter of the Centura School and the D-C-B baseball program.

He was a member of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Dannebrog, Ducks Unlimited, Platt-Duetsche, rural mail carriers association and a certified hunter safety instructor. He was also a member of 40&8, and a board member of D-C-B baseball. Lyle was a 50-year member of the Mickelsen-Larkowski American Legion Post No. 241 in Dannebrog, receiving his pin April 1, 2006.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Howard and Wayne Fries; and a sister, Beverly Volkl.

Memorials are suggested to Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, the Dannebrog American Legion, Dannebrog EMT's or the Cairo EMT's.