(Research):John Everett Hybbert was born April 12, 1917 in Lake Fremont Township, Martin County, Minnesota, the son of John Edward and Lilly (Olson) Hybbert. He attended and later was a 1935 Graduate of Sherburn-Dunnell High School. While in High School, Everett played baseball, softball, football,basketball and track. On June 6, 1941, he was united in marriage to Vernetta L. Schmidt in Eitzen, Minnesota. After their marriage, they lived and farmed in Lake Fremont Township. In 1964, they moved to Brooklyn Center, Minnesota where Everett worked for the University of Minnesota in the Agronomy Department. He would travel the entire state where he worked with the Soybean plots. He later painted for the City of Minneapolis. In 1982, they moved to Ceylon. Everett was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Dunnell and a former member of St. John's United Church of Christ in Ceylon and Hope Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. He enjoyed his family, spending winters in California, Arizona, Texas and Florida. They enjoyed traveling in their motor home where he spent 2, 888 nights. He also enjoyed gardening, fishing where he taught all his six grandchildren to fish, watching sports especially the Minnesota Vikings and Twins and telling humorous stories. Everett served on the Dunnell Elevator Board where he served as secretary and was on the Dunnell Creamery Board, and the Dunnell shipping Association.
Everett died on Thursday afternoon, June 2, 2005 at the Fairmont Medical Center-Mayo Health System in Fairmont, Minnesota at the age of eighty-eight years.
Those Who Shared in Everett's Life
His wife of 63 years, Vernetta Hybbert of Ceylon, Minnesota; son, James Hybbert and his wife, Judy, of rural Dunnell, Minnesota; two daughters, Joyce Peterson and her husband, Robert, of Santee, California and JoAnn Steiner and her husband, Fred, of Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan; six grandchildren, Lori Bell and her husband, Fred, Lisa Hybbert, Chad Hybbert, Nolan Hybbert and his wife, Kari, Adam Hybbert and Thomas Steiner; five step grandchildren and eleven step great grandchildren; sisters-in-law, Alice Christensen of Ceylon, Minnesota and Muriel Hybbert of Jackson, Minnesota; brother-in-law, Lester Schmidt of Sherburn, Minnesota; several nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends.
Everett was preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Clare Hybbert; sisters-in-law, Leona Schmidt, Doris Schmidt, Edna Swink and her husband, Basil, Grace Farland and her husband, Alfred; brothers-in-law, Allen Christensen and Ralph Schmidt and his wife, Margaret; mother-in-law and father-in-law, William and Augusta Schmidt, and other relatives. [1]
Eldste kjente aner
Farslinje: Hubert le Theatre, f. Ca 1580, Liege, Belgien d. Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden Morslinje: Esther Lilly* Olsson, f. 1894, Minnesota, USA d. 9 Mai 1945, Martin, Minnesota, USA
Vernetta Lucile Schmidt, f. 21 Nov 1918, Lake Belt Township, Martin, Minnesota d. 22 Feb 2010, Lakeview Methodist Health Care Center, in Fairmont, Minnesota (Alder 91 år)