• Mass of Christian Burial for Lynn Sanderson, 60, of Conde will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Turton. The Rev. Mike Kelly will officiate. Burial will follow in St. John's Catholic Cemetery of Conde.
• Visitation will be held at the church from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, May 6.
• Lynn was born Sept. 2, 1952, the second of three boys to Richard Owen and Arda Mae (Grimes) Sanderson. He attended a one-room country schoolhouse until fourth grade, when he

transferred to Conde Public School. He graduated from Conde High School in 1970 and earned his BS in Range Management from South Dakota State University in 1974. He married his high school sweetheart, Rosemary Barondeau, on Sept. 7 that same year.
• The couple made their home in rural Conde, where Lynn purchased land in Day County and joined his father's farm operations. Lynn and Rosemary have spent the past 20 years in her childhood home, lovingly renovating the farmhouse in keeping with its 1906 character.
• Lynn was a skilled and passionate pilot who earned his license at age 17 and flew for the SDSU skydiving team. His first plane was a one-seater with a Volkswagen engine. He purchased his Zenair experimental aircraft in 2001 and later sold it so he could build his own DreamAircraft Tundra - the first airborne in the United States. He is in the Experimental Aircraft Association history books for flying his Tundra in the Homebuilt Review at AirVenture 2010.
• Lynn always was ready to take neighbors up to look for a lost calf, to shoot aerial photos of surrounding farms for local fundraisers, or simply to give someone the view from above - and maybe instill in them the same excitement he felt for flight.
• Lynn was a gifted songwriter and guitarist. He wrote what he knew: love, family and life in the Crandall foothills. He performed his original pieces at many "Crandall Opry" shows during annual Crandall Fest celebrations. A member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, he also played for Mass, accompanied by Rosemary on piano or organ. He had a soft heart for all living things - people, animals and plants. He took in Tude, the orphan kitten; Sunny, the lame horse; and Tripod, the three-legged calf.
• He was conscientious of the environment in his farming and living, long before it became known as the green movement. He hung solar panels on his home's roof, switched to no-to-low-till farming, worked to offset carbon emissions and welcomed family and friends as hunters so long as they followed population-control limits.

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