Herman and Carrie Lake...“get along the best we can”

By Eva Hallam Solberg

Published in the PCN Nov. 23, 1978

Herman and Carrie Lake celebrated their 65^th wedding anniversary on Nov. 20, 1978. They say there’s no secret to their long married life. “We just try to get along the best we can.”

Herman is crowding 89, and Carrie will be 86 in the spring. Their parents were farmers in Minnesota and North Dakota. Schooling consisted of a seventh grade education, attended only when farmers could spare their children from work.

When he was seven years old, Herman traveled by covered wagon with his father, stepmother and three brothers to Park River, North Dakota. His father homesteaded west of the Red River. He remembers their homestead shack made of sod over a wooden frame. It was warm in the winter and cool in the summer, as the sod blocks were two feet thick. Homesteaders in that area also built sod barns.

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