11/24/26 – 6/25/97

Lee Lippincott Guyer, 70, of Wayzata, died at his home on Wednesday, June 25, 1997.

Guyer was born Nov. 24, 1926, in Blair to H. Lyle and Viva (Lippincott) Guyer. After graduating from Blair High School in 1944, he entered the Air Force, and was stationed at various bases around the United States and spent one year in Germany. He attended Creighton College, Dana College and then graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan in 1949. On Aug. 15, 1948, he married V. Ione Jespersen in Blair. He began his business career in the farm implement industry with Kelly Ryan where he worked for two years. He was with the Farmhand Company for 18 years and was a traveling salesman for the upper Midwest. He was later national sales manager for that company. In 1969, he purchased Vent-A-Hood in Hopkins, Minn. His work in the appliance business expanded when he founded Guyer’s Builders Supply in 1975 and Highline Distributing in 1980. He sold Guyer’s Builders Supply in 1984. In 1987, he sold Vent-A-Hood to his sons, Hal and Randy, and in 1995, sold Highline Distributing, before retiring.

He sang in the Minnetonka United Methodist Church Choir and in a men’s group called “The More than Four but Less than Six” quintet.

Survivors are his wife, Ione; sons and daughter-in-law, Hal and Sandra of Shorewood, Minn.; Randy of Minnetonka, Minn.; a daughter and son-in-law, Kristin and David Jones of Minneapolis, Min.; two granddaughters, LeAnne and Lindsay Guyer of Minnetonka; two step-granddaughters, Erica and Brook Carlson of Shorewood; two sisters, Lyla Woodworth of Hastings, Neb. and Mildred Hill of Huntington, Verm., and one brother, Glen of Oceanside, Calif.

Memorials may be given to the Minnetonka United Methodist Church or the Leukemia Society.

~~~Obituary courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~

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