Sunday, March 8, 2020
Lyle was the last kid to ride a horse to the Lloydminster Public School, according to late and legendary teacher-principal-superintendent, Mo Price. The red school barn stood flush up to Highway 16, midway between the old brick, 3-story brick school (now City Hall) and the former Winston Churchill School on the west end of the school grounds.
Lyal was then and always will be remembered as a 'Gentle Giant' by his schoolmates, as nice as he was big for his age. He was also exceptionally fast afoot and this combination made him a star football player on the high school football team, a "60-minuter", meaning he could play the whole game, too, battling in the trenches along the line. But such hard work was another big part of Lyal that he endorsed for his whole life.
RIP, ol' school pal.
