Floyd Sjoberg

Mr. Floyd G. Lefty Sjoberg, age 69 of Clark died late Monday evening, August 24, 2009 in a Clark care center from an illness due to cancer. The Sjobergs, Lefty and Maxine, were longtime owner operators of the Clark Bakery. Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 28, 2009 at 2PM in the St. Paul Lutheran Church at Clark with the Reverend Robin Schaunaman officiating. Burial will follow in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Clark. The organist for the funeral will be Dorothy Fuller with the soloist being Robin Brown. She will sing Amazing Grace" and How Great Thou Art. The congregation will sing Here I Am Lord and God Be With You Till We Meet Again. The active casketbearers will be John Brown, Rollie Kludt, Dick Linneman, Bruce Wadsworth, Roger Chapin, Loren Stanley, Bryce DesLauriers and Ryan Sjoberg. All of Leftys grandchildren and great-grandchildren should consider themselves as honorary casketbearers. Visitation will be held on Thursday, August 27, 2009 from 5-7 PM at the Furness Funeral Home at Clark and after noon at the Church on Friday. Floyd Gerald Lefty Sjoberg was born on December 19, 1939 at Bryant, SD, the son of Palmer Jack and Hollis (Lien) Sjoberg. At a young age his family moved to Oconomowoc, WI where he attended grade school and graduated from high school in 1958. After his schooling he returned to Bryant where he met and married Maxine Steever. They were married in St. Paul Lutheran Church at Bryant, SD on September 27, 1959. After their marriage he began to learn a trade of baking from a Henry Gutormson at DeSmet who later bought a bakery in Redfield called Henry's Pastry Shop. Lefty and Maxine moved to Redfield for a short time and then in 1960 they returned to Wisconsin. After getting a letter from Maxines mother that the bakery was for sale in Bryant, they returned to Bryant in 1962 to purchase and operate the Bryant Bakery. In the spring of 1971 they decided Clark was to be their home and they bought the Hamre Bakery in Clark. They owned and operated it the next 30 years, selling it once, buying it back and then retiring officially from the bakery in the fall of 2001. Lefty just could not sit still so he went to work for the City of Clark as the landfill operator, something he did until just recently when his health forced him to stop. Lefty will long be remembered for his love of golfing, being a #1 Green Bay Packer fan even painting the bakery in Clark green & gold on the outside! fishing, bowling, gardening, bow hunting and playing some cards. His family was important to him and second to none though was his enjoyment of cooking and baking. He would spend hours in the kitchen at home and at the bakery creating a specialty for someone to enjoy whether it be a cake, a pork loin, loaf of bread, buns or something he was going to sell to a restaurant when he traveled the road representing a food company, Lefty loved to create food. While in Bryant he was active as a Bryant Volunteer Fireman and as a member of the Chamber of Commerce, even helping to build the Bryant Gym. Since living in Clark he was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran Church, the Clark Golf Club and the Clark Lions Club. Grateful for having shared in his life is his wife of nearly 50 years, Maxine, children, Lonna (Don) DesLauriers all of Clark, Shelly (Dan) Miller of Park Rapids, MN and Jerry (Traci) Sjoberg of Sioux Falls, his mother-in-law, Elsie Steever of Bryant, 7 grandchildren, Jennifer, Bryce, Haley, Carly, Jasie, Janaye and Ryan, 2 great-grandchildren, Kadance and Blake; siblings, Janice Timm of Milwaukee, WI, Shirley Moede of Dousman, WI, Gene (Anna) Sjoberg of Clark, Jody (Tony) Hem of Dousman, WI and Vern (Shirley) Sjoberg of Clark. Preceding him in death were his parents and 7 siblings, Yvonne, Glenn, Marvin, LouElla, Marlene, Jackie and Lorraine. Funeral arrangements are announced by the Furness Funeral Home of Clark where you can email condolences at www.furnessfuneralhome.com