Lyle York Starks

Lyle Y. Starks age 91 of Sioux Falls, SD, formerly of Amiret, MN, died Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at Avera-Prince of Peace Retirement Community in Sioux Falls, SD. Services will be 2:00 PM Monday, November 30, 2009 at Tracy United Methodist Church in Tracy, MN. Visitation will be from 5:00 until 7:00 PM, Sunday, November 29, 2009, with a prayer service at 7:00 PM at Almlie Funeral Home in Tracy. Interment will be in the Bethel Cemetery. The Almlie Funeral Home of Tracy is handling the arrangements. Lyle York Starks was born July 16, 1918 to Nicholas and Blanche (York) Starks near Agate, NE, Sioux County. He was the eldest of nine children and attended country school and at sixteen he went to work, as a ranch hand, on the Cherry Ranch. In 1941 he entered the US Army and served until his honorable discharge in 1946, when he returned to Nebraska On 5, 1946 Lyle married Imogene Veline in Scott’s Bluff, NE. They made their home in the Gering, NE area for several years. In 1948 they moved to Chadron, NE where together with his wife they owned and operated a plumbing business. In 1950 they moved to a farm in the Amiret, MN area, where he raised cattle and farmed until 1996 when they moved into Tracy, MN. In 2003 he moved into an assisted living complex in Brandon, SD. Besides enjoying his life as a rancher, Lyle enjoyed cattle roping, wood and leather working, hunting, fishing, especially ice fishing, playing guitar and he loved children. In August of 2008 Lyle became a resident of the Avera-Prince of Peace Retirement Community in Sioux Falls, SD, where he died Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at the age of 91. Lyle is survived by his two daughters, Sonja (John) Lynch of Sioux Falls, SD and Bonnie Starks of Eugene, OR; two grandchildren, Heather (David) DeVries and Jason (Ann) Lynch; six great grandchildren, Logan, Lucas, Landon, Ian, Brionna, and Micayla; four sisters, Barbara Campbell of Riverton, WY, Joan (Joe) Kerns of Morrill, NE, Jean Randall of Helotes, TX, and Georgia Eckhardt of West Blocton, AL; nieces, nephews and friends. His wife, Imogene, parents, two brothers, Charles and John, and two sisters, Mabel Cashatt and Edna Meyers preceded him in death.