Last revised: December 25, 2009

Dean Byron Gudmestad  - (1941-2009)

(Album #3.)
"FARMER DEAN"

GUDMESTAD FARM

(Medina, North Dakota)

Farmer Dean teaching granddaughter...

Farmers need to relax!

"Great Cook too!"

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

Surveying the world He had made,
God looked down one day and said,
"I need somebody down there to be caretaker of my Kingdom."

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

"I need somebody who will sit up all night with a new born calf,
watch it die, and be able to say,
"Maybe we'll get an even better one next year."

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

"I need somebody who can eat dirt, smell manure, listen for thunder caps,
taste bugs in his teeth, and still feel good all over.

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

"I need somebody who can get up before dawn, milk cows, work in the fields
all day, milk cows again, eat supper, and then go into town
and stay there until 2AM at a school board meeting."

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

"I need somebody with arms strong enough
to wrestle a big calf to give him shots,
but a gentle heart enough to cry when his first grandchild is born."

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

"I need somebody who can call hogs, cuss at ornery, cantankerous old
machinery, bark orders to the hired man,
and then come home and whisper to his wife
that she's the same pretty girl he married years ago."

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

"I need somebody who can wait patiently for his afternoon lunch until his wife
is done feeding all the ladies
at her homemakers party, and then still have enough strength
to tell them all to come back soon."

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

"I need somebody who waits all year to harvest a crop,
but will stop in mid-field and run to help when he sees smoke coming up from
the neighbor's place."

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

"I need somebody who will smile, then laugh and then cry
when his family wants to spend the rest of their lives
doing just what Dad did."

SO GOD MADE A FARMER

(1999-2009) - Jamestown, North Dakota

Jamestown’s “claim to fame” is “The World’s Largest Buffalo”, a cement sculpture that stands 26’ tall, 46’ long and weighs 60 ton. The statue, built in 1959, was the vision of Harold Newman, the owner and founder of Newman Signs in Jamestown. As the years passed, a number of old buildings were moved in and eventually an old Frontier Town culminated, now known as the Frontier Village. Harold Newman’s vision, “to create something so, big and magnificent, that passersby would have to stop in the city”, was definitely realized. Today, the Frontier Village, in which the “World’s Largest Buffalo” and the National Buffalo Museum are located.

ANNE CARLSON SCHOOL

(2009) - SISTERS

Dean's sister-in-law, Lorna (Fandrick) Neary
(Washburn, North Dakota)

Diana's sister-in-law, Karen Fandrick - (New Port Richey, FL)
Josh Gudmestad and their farm dogs

Dean with his Brothers-in-law

Ron Fandrick (New Port Richey, FL), Tom Neary (Washburn, ND)

(2009) - Sister and Brother

Lorna Neary, Ron Fandrick, Diana Gudmestad

Back at the church, after the luncheon...

Dean and Diana's Family

Last revised: December 25, 2009

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