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Myron Lester Daellenbach of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin died on July 8, 2008. He was 95 years old.

Myron was born July 23, 1912, to Christian and Wilhelmina "Minnie" Johanna Christina (Prange) Daellenbach in Abbotsford, Wisconsin. He was a first generation American, having been born to a Swiss emigrant father and a mother of German ancestry. In 1914, the family moved to what became the family farm on the Clam River near Coomer, Wisconsin, southeast of Siren where Myron graduated from the eighth grade at the Coomer School.

From 1929 to 1932, he worked on farms in Minnesota and from 1933 to 1935 worked at the Maser Fur Farm (foxes) in Hackensack, Minnesota. This was during the Great Depression. In 1935 the fur farm went under and, even though he was only compensated $2.70 for the entire year, he never regretted the common sense education he received there. As he finished his job at the fur farm, he met Irene Hetland, of Fargo, North Dakota on a blind date in Minneapolis on December 31, 1935. Their courtship lasted until they married on September 4, 1937, at the Hetland farm near Clear Lake, Iowa.

Myron started working at Simonson Lumber in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1936 and spent the rest of his career with Simonson Lumber, retiring in 1978. While working in St. Paul, he received mechanical and architectural drafting schooling through the University of Minnesota at Columbia Heights. In 1942, he moved to St. Croix Falls where he and Irene raised their four children and Myron was manager of the Simonson Lumber yard. As part of his lumber yard duties, he created over 1,000 plans for homes, farm buildings, churches and church additions in the Twin Cities and St. Croix River Valley.

Myron volunteered for many St. Croix Falls civic activities including 18 years as a Council Member of the City, 19 years on the Hospital Board, 12 years as a volunteer EMT paramedic with St. Croix Regional Medical Center, volunteer firefighter with the Fire Department, and many years on the Board of Directors for the Polk County Historical Society in Balsam Lake. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing, canoeing, trapping, beekeeping (which he supported by raising buckwheat at his Siren cabin on the Clam River near the old family farm), woodcutting, woodworking, carpentry, and deer hunting with an open sight rifle. He was the consummate innovator and, given enough time, he could fix or build nearly anything.

Myron was baptized Lutheran in Abbotsford, Wisconsin, on July 26, 1912. He was a man of abiding faith and a charter member and committed parishioner of Redeemer Lutheran for decades. Myron had a conviction for honesty, industry, and plain hard work. He was proud of his paternal Swiss heritage from Oberhofen am Thunersee of Kanton Bern. He died of old age at Good Samaritan Center in St. Croix Falls where he had served eight years as a board member earlier in his life.

Myron was preceded in death by his wife Irene in 1991 after 53 years of marriage as well as brother Oswald and sister-in-law Marie, sister Estella Yount, brother-in-law Leonard Glubka, son-in-law David Siegler, and grandson Philip Snyder. He is survived by brother George (Addy), sister Lucille Glubka, sister Doris Hassig (Bernard); his four children Mary Gretchen (Reverend Marlin Snyder) of Centuria, Wisconsin, Charles Byron (Faye Anderson) of Albany, Oregon, Joan Ruth Siegler of Mesa, Arizona, and Peter Christian (Cheryl Brauer) of Roscommon, Michigan; grandchildren Jamie Siegler Love, Brian Daellenbach, James Siegler, Cindy Snyder, Christopher Daellenbach, Keith Daellenbach, Michael Siegler, Julie Daellenbach Huber, Shelly Snyder Mitchell, and Rachel Siegler and 19 great-grandchildren.

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