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                   INTERMENT AT OAK GROVE CEMETERY
DETROIT LAKES,MINNESOTA,USA
DETROIT LAKES RECORD-NOVEMBER 17,1986
LYDIA FIELD (MRS MELVIN FIELD) 80,DETROIT LAKES,DIED AT ST. ANSGAR HOSPITAL
IN MOORHEAD ON SATURDAY,NOV 15.
THE FUNERAL WILL BE AT 1 PM ON WEDNESDAY,NOV 19 FROM FIRST LUTHERAN
CHURCH OF DETROIT LAKES WITH THE REV DAVID M. PRETTY OFFICIATING.
MRS MOX GUNDERSON WILL BE ORGANIST AND THE SOLOIST WILL BE DELMOURE
HULTGREN.
INTERMENT WILL BE AT OAK GROVE CEMETERY WITH WEST-KJOS FUNERAL HOME
IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.  SERVING AS THE PALLBEARERS WILL BE MICHAEL
DAVIS,JEFFREY DAVIS, RONALD FIELD,CLARENCE FIELD JR.,DANIEL FIELD AND
DONALD FAUS.
BORN AT FREDONIA,N.D.,ON FEB 9,1906, SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL IN CANADA AND
WAS MARRIED TO MELVIN FIELD IN CANADA ON FEB 27,1927.
FOLLOWING THEIR MARRIAGE, THEY FARMED NEAR MAYVILLE,N.D.,UNTIL 1933, WHEN THEY
MOVED TO A FARM NEAR DETROIT LAKES.  MRS FIELD WHO WAS AN ACTIVE
MEMBER OF FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH,HAD BEEN A COOK IN SERVERAL LOCAL
RESTAURANTS.
SURVIVING ARE THREE SONS,CHESTER,MISSOULA,MONT.,ALLEN,BLAINE, AND CLARENCE
ANOKA,TWO DAUGHTERS,MRS.LYLE (ETHEL) DAVIS,DETROIT LAKES,AND MRS DOUGLAS
(MARLENE) FAUS,MOORHEAD;THREE BROTHERS,WALTER,BRITISH COLUMBIA,CANADA
VICTOR,MEDICINE HAT,ALBERTA,CANADA (DECEASED 07 MAR 1992),AND LEONARD
BONDY,MAGRATH,ALBERTA,CANADA AND A SISTER ZENNA PALFENIER (WEKSY)
CALGARY,ALBERTA,CANADA.  THER ARE 29 GRANDCHILDREN AND 22 GREAT-
GRANDCHILDREN.
MRS FIELD WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS,HER HUSBAND (WHO
DIED OCT 18,1983),A DAUGHTER AND A SISTER.
Written by Lydia Bondarenko 14 Jan 1929
High Lights of my life 1929
1906,Feb 9
Born in Fredonia,No.Dak.Logan County
My first memory is sitting in the window seat that was facing East,build of sod house.  It was
warmest place in the house.  It was winter.  In late years,I got sick with Scarlet Fever. Was tucked in
bed with feather tick.  How sick I was I don't remember.  When I did get well, I remember that my
hair was coming out.  And I did have nice long hair, I could sit on it, my mother cut if off as it was
hopeless to save.
Started school but how old I was I can not recall,all I can remember my father taking us in a big bob
sled on cold days, on the way he would pick other kids.  When we did walk on nice days,we would
stop on the way at neighbor,we were not supposed to but we did.  They had a smoke house,full of
smoked meat,hams,even rabbits.  Was that good tasting meat.  We come there when they were still
at the breakfast table.  When they got thru eating,nobody could leave the table untilthe father,
head of the family read the Bible and prayer.  He had a beard.  That memory was strong in my
mind.  Last I remember of him,he was sick,pneumonia.  He died that winter.  Their name was
Presslor.
At the school one Christmas weekwe had a Christmas program.  How those candles shown,was
beautiful sight.  My best friend,who was supposed to perform at that program in one of the acts,
took sick.  She also passed away,but rememory of her is still bright in my mind *as she was my best
friend,never got to act her part.  (*phrase crossed out)
As I am writing this onJan14,1929 and the cold weather we are having now 34 below during the night.
It takes me back to April 1917.  We had a snow storm.  People lost lot of cattle.  When storm was over,
my sister and I went to the back of the of our place,beyond the hill,all we could see in moulds of snow,
but reality it was frozen cattle.  When it warm up pretty fast being that late in the spring,there lot of
carcass laying around.
My dad could not get any well around that farm,all I could remember is a pit dug in slough,to have
water for his stock.  It was rough for him.  Lot of rocks onthat farm from hazel nut size to boulder.  One
summer he was working the field,by keeping it black,summer fallow they call it then.  There was a
duck that had a nest and it was destroyed at the time,but she rebuild and gather or rolled in egg size
stones and sat on them.  I at the time try to catch her,what for I don't remember.  I did catcher her,what
happen to the duck,I cannnot recall.
My mother used to go out and help in the field,I think I was about 4 years old.  My folks instructed us not
to touch the stove.  But we did,smoke would come out the chimney folks came home on the run,here I
was with a hatchet chasing my sister,playing Indians.  Evidently we must have heard stories of the
Indians & how bad they were at that time.  Anyway we really got wolping.
The year of 1917 spring,my dad decided to move out,could not get water and most of the people
migrating to Canada,as wheat crops were good them years and he said, he will get place where he could
get a well with water in it. So he had an Auction Sale on certain day but weather was bad,what people
came,had lunch,which consist of cut up ring bolony,boiled in big boilers and bread,anyway sale was
postponed to later date.  That I don't remember so well.  Anyway,dad saved,couple of cows,4 horses,
machinery & some household furniture,etc.  Loaded in freight car and he went with it to Canada.
Mother and 5 of us children,(No remember of my 2brs & Sister born at that time).  We staid behind
few days,in the house,nothing in it but plenty to eat.  Then we left and onthe train to Canada.  Don't
remember much of the trip.  But do remember I lost sense of direction in that country and it still
stays with me.  We landed in Maple Creek,Sask.  Staid in some rented place,not much to remember
but I did remember soldiers going to war at the time.  They seemedso friendly to us little kids. Dad
then rented some land that summer of 1917.  Had good crop.  While we were on this place,one young
horse  was killed on the tracks.  That was tragic at the time.
(Copied from Lydia's hand-written rememories)
Lydia Bondarenko Field was born in Fredonia,ND and moved to Maple Creek,Sask,Canada as a young
girl.  After she married Melvin Field and moved back to Mayvill,ND,her Mother and Father moved to
Medicine Hat,Alberta.  Lydia and Melvin andtheirchildren finally settled in rural Detroit Lakes,MN
Footnote by Otto Palfenier: her parents moved from the farm in the 1950's when they retired.