Lloyd H. Swenson (1915-2008)

SWENSON, HATLESTAD, DUPRE, DUPRÉ, SCHWARZ, CAREY, GOODENOUGH, HIGBIE, DARRELL

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 1/31/2009 at 09:25:16

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, January 27, 2009.

Lloyd H. Swenson, 93, of Sartell, Minn., formerly of Minneapolis and Wahkon, Minn., Mission, Texas, and Ames, passed peacefully Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008, at the Country Manor Health Care Center in Sartell. A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at Country Manor Health Care Center in Sartell, Minn. A memorial service will also be held later this spring in Spring Valley in southern Minnesota.

Lloyd was born Sept. 13, 1915, in Spring Valley, Minn., to Eddie and Mary (Hatlestad) Swenson. Lloyd married Gladys Hazelton Oct. 5, 1937, in Spring Valley. During World War II, he worked for a private contractor at a military base in Baffin Island. He was an over-the-road trucker until becoming involved in the automobile business in the Twin Cities as a salesman, manager and then president of a Porsche-Audi dealership in Minneapolis, Minn. In the early 1970s, he realized his dream of owning a dealership when he purchased a VW business in Ames, followed by ownership of Honda of Ames from which he retired near the age of 80. He was a respected member of the Twin Cities and Ames automobile communities. He was also a member of the Zuhrah Shrine in Minneapolis, where he was a lifelong supporter of the Shriners Children’s Hospital as a Circus Daddy.

He loved fishing and boating and pulling his grandsons on water skis on Mille Lacs Lake. He and Glady also enjoyed their winter home in Mission, Texas, with its abundant little orchard of oranges, grapefruit, lemons and limes. Most of all, they loved the time they spent with their daughter, grandsons and great-granddaughters.

He will be remembered for his great sense of humor and his repertoire of stories collected over 93 years. He had many friends, including the Country Manor residents and staff, and the phrase most often heard by his family was “Everybody loves him.”

He is survived by his daughter, Judie Dupré, of St. Cloud, Minn.; grandsons, Beau (Jill Marie) Dupré, of Wahkon, Minn., and Dustin (Jill Kathleen) Dupré, of Cottage Grove, Minn.; and great-granddaughters, Kaitlyn Dupré, of South St. Paul, Minn., and twins, Abby and Rylee Dupré, of Cottage Grove, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Gladys; parents, Eddie and Mary Swenson; brothers, Robert, Richard and Olaf; and sisters, Emma Schwarz, Genevieve Carey Goodenough, Harriet Higbie and Edna Darrell.

The family extends special thanks and gratitude to his caregivers this past year, Dr. Matsuura, Dr. Halstrom, Dr. Carter, the Palliative Care and Hospice Staff at St. Cloud Hospital, as well as the caring and compassionate staff at the Country Manor and St. Benedict’s Center. You have truly made a difference in our lives and his.

Memorials are preferred in lieu of flowers to Tri-County Humane Society or the Shriners Children’s Hospital.

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