Myron Gader, son of Charlie and Mercedes Sorenson Gader, married Sharon Bakkegard, daughter of Arthur and Ethel Okerstrom Bakkegard, March 26, 1964. They have made their home in Glenfield.

Myron grew up in this community, attended Glenfield School and graduated from high school here. He then attended North Dakota State School of Science for two years where he studied diesel mechanics. After graduation, he joined the iron workers union at Fargo, North Dakota, where he worked until he joined the military service.

For the next two years he served in the United States Army being stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, where he spent the majority of his military life. At this time he also was a part of the military ski team that backed the Olympic ski team who trained at Vail, Colorado After completing his military duty, he again worked for several years as an iron worker; he spent most of that time helping to install the Minute-Man missiles around sites in North Dakota. He then chose to become a small grain, corn and sunflower grower. Along with farming now, he also owns and operates a long-haul 18-wheeler trucking operation which takes him west to the coast, south into Texas and east to Illinois.

Myron has served on the Glenfield-Sutton-McHenry school board for six years, has been a member of the Fraternal Order of Odd Fellows, has been a member of the American Legion, is presently a board member of the Glenfield Development Corporation, and belongs to the Winnebago-Itasca International Travelers Club.

When she was a child, Sharon and her family lived at Cayuga, North Dakota, where she attended 11 years of school. She graduated from Sargent Central High School at Forman, North Dakota, because the Cayuga School closed after some Sargent County schools consolidated. Attending college at Valley City, North Dakota, she graduated with a teaching degree in English, speech and vocal music. She taught at Glenfield for six years and for one year at McHenry before quitting in 1970. After several years of substitute teaching, she again resumed the teaching profession in 1986, and is presently employed at the Glenfield-Sutton-McHenry School in Glenfield.

The family belongs to the Glenfield Lutheran Church where Sharon. has been a Sunday School superintendent and teacher, an ALCW officer, a choir director, and a pianist/accompanist.

Kevin and Ann both attend G-S-M Junior-Senior High School where they are actively involved in sports, music and speech programs. At church they are Luther League members. They also enjoy the family travel, camping, boating and fishing.

Source:  Glenfield History 1886 €“ 1987 Page 164