Milton Jerrol Nybakke

April 9, 1937 – November 8, 2011 Funeral Services for Milton Jerrol Nybakke will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 11, 2011 at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 325 11th St. No., Sauk Rapids, MN. A visitation for friends and family will be one hour prior to services at the Church. Milton Jerrol Nybakke, son of Julian and Karen (Mithaugen) Nybakke was born April 9, 1937 in Hayes Township, Kerkhoven, MN. At a young age, he moved with his family to Fairfield Township near Holloway, MN where Milton grew up and received his schooling and graduated from Holloway High School. July 1960 Milton was drafted into the US Army. In December 1960 he was in the artillery in Bomholder, Germany. In 1961 he traveled the autobahn to West Berlin. He guarded the Berlin Wall for four months. He was honorably discharged in July of 1962. On June 2, 1963, Milton was united in marriage to Judith Ann Blair at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in rural Appleton, MN. He lived and worked doing carpenter work in Willmar, MN. In 1966, they moved to St. Cloud where Milt continued to do carpenter work and started his own construction company. Building mainly farm buildings, pole and steel buildings. His motto was “Do you need a barn built, call Milt”. In 1971 he built and moved to a home site near Cold Spring, MN and in 1994 he again built a new home site near Cold Spring for retirement and lived there until August 2005, when he and Judy moved to Heritage Apartments in Foley, MN. In 2010, they moved to Good Shepherd Apartments in Sauk Rapids, MN. Milton was a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. He was a member of the American Legion Frank Kray Post No. 455 at Cold Spring, MN and a life member of the VFW Post 6915 at Cold Spring, MN. His favorite hobbies included playing cards, doing crafts, gardening and mowing grass, but most of all, he enjoyed spending time and visiting with his family and friends and listening to blue grass and old time music. He is survived by his wife, Judy of Sauk Rapids, MN; two children, Nathan (Alma) of Paso Robles, CA, Julie (Roy) Hanenburg of Foley, MN; 7 grandchildren; one sister, Joann (Meryln) Hanson of Westbrook, MN; one brother, Richard (Janice) Nybakke of Hutchinson, MN; sister-in-law, Aleta Nybakke of Mesa, AZ. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Norman and Roger Nybakke.

Milton Jerrol Nybakke

April 9, 1937 - November 11, 2011