Anne Laura Hines Yost Lucks 1921-2010

LUCKS, YOST, HINES, HALL, VETTER, GREVE, BERG, WALLACE, LAVELLE, PETERSEN, DOZIER, MEYER, PEARSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 10/14/2012 at 01:28:12

ESTHERVILLE - Memorial services for Anne Yost-Lucks, 89, of Worthington, Minn., and formerly Estherville, will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, at First Presbyterian Church in Estherville with Pastor Doug Burton officiating. Interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery next to her first husband.

She died on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, at South Shore Care Center in Worthington, Minn.

Anna Laura Yost-Lucks the daughter of Thomas Peter and Ethel Irene (Hall) Hines was born September 5, 1921 in Madison, South Dakota.

Thomas and Ethel were married in 1920. They named their child Anna Laura after a popular WWI song. Anna Laura had a ruptured appendix at age 2 1/2 allowing her a glimpse of Heaven. This near-death experience gave her knowledge of an afterlife in heaven and no fears of aging and death. Anne's mother was abandoned by her husband prior to Anne's birth watching her single parent mother struggle to raise her and her later siblings convinced Anne that education was the key to independence for women.

Anne Yost -Lucks mother remarried and gave Anne three sisters and a brother, Phyllis Vetter Greve (Calvin), Jeannie Vetter Berg (Johnnie), Phillip Vetter (Veronica) and Helen Vetter Wallace (Bob) all have preceded her in death except for her baby sister, Helen Wallace of Pierre, South Dakota. This second family for Anne was created by her mother and her step-father, David Erwin Vetter whose last name she used until her own marriage. This was her "Daddy" who always cared for her as though his own.

She attended Gettysburg High School in Gettysburg, South Dakota. She worked with her Vetter grandmother caring for a boarding house and its inhabitants during her high school years. She graduated with the class of 1939 where she participated in glee club, GAA, the yearbook staff, operetta, One Act Play and the Class Play.

She attended Northern State Teachers College in Aberdeen, South Dakota for one year and received a certificate to teach in a rural school. She taught 5th and 6th grades in one room school house in Veblen, South Dakota. It was in Veblen where she met her husband, Charles Yost Jr., "Chod". Chod Yost was working on road building throughout Northern South Dakota for his father's road building company, Yost Healy Construction Company. They had their own gravel pit and laid the roads with 20 horse teams. Eventually Yost Healy Construction Co. used the first "Cat 60" west of the Mississippi to complete their contract.

Anne and Chod married in June of 1942 when Chod was on leave during World War II in Lacrosse, Wisconsin.

Anne continued her teaching career in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, Bristow, Iowa and Estherville. She fulfilled her desire for more education completing a four year degree and a master's degree at Mankato. Anne and Chod had three daughters while living in Bristow. Bristow was the location of the original Yost homestead which grew to 5400 acres. Their children became the fifth generation on the homestead. Chod became a private pilot. While flying from Bristow to Spencer, Iowa inclement weather and mechanical problems forced landings at Harry Coffie's Estherville Airport. Taken as a sign from Heaven, the Yost family moved to Estherville in 1955. Anne has always loved dancing, flower gardening, bird watching, poetry and entertaining. It was her love of square dancing that kept her active in the Bustle Rustlers after the death of Chod in 1986.

She began a friendship with Walter Lucks who was also an avid dancer from Worthington, Minnesota. They married in June of 2000. Anne moved to Worthington and they wintered in their Mesa, Arizona home - dancing most every day.

Anne is survived by her husband, Walter Lucks and their blended family of 8 children: Lauralee Yost Lavelle of Chicago, Illinois; Lynda Yost Petersen of Inverness, Illinois; Lyla Yost Dozier of Des Moines, Iowa; Jerry Lucks (JoAnn) of Stillwater, Minnesota; Bob Lucks (Jeannie) of Boron, California; Judy Lucks Meyer of Amarillo, Texas; Jim Lucks of Rushmore, Minnesota and Kathy Lucks Pearson (Al) of Dundee, Minnesota.

Anne has three granddaughters and three great granddaughters who have given her great joy.

Interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery next to her first husband. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 14, 2010)