Clifton A. Myhr age 78, owner of Myhr's Bake Shop in Minneapolis for 34 years and president of the National Bakers Association, died of a heart attack on Sunday at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina. Myhr of Mesa, Arizona, worked at Rafert Baking Company and Sweetheart Bakery in Minneapolis before buying his own bakery at 50th St. and Bryant Avenue S. in Minneapolis in 1948. He taught small business administration at Dunwoody hInstitute in Minneapolis and Anoka-Hennepin Technical College in Anoka and was a member of the International Geneva Association, a group of top chefs and bakers. Myhr had a heart attack in 1980, sold the bakery two years later and moved to Mesa. He was born in Alexandria and graduated from high school there. He learned baking at hotels in Eugene, Oregon and Redding, California. He returned to the Twin Cities when his father died in 1939. He is survived by his wife Irene Myhr; daughters: Donna Jensen of Boulder, Colorado; Julie Hennessy and husband Bob of Bloomington; brothers: Reuben Myhr and Harold Myhr of Alexandria; Lawrence Myhr of Bloomington; sister: Martha Hjelm of Alexandria; grandchildren: Bill Jensen, Erin Hennessy and Sara Jensen; and nieces, nephews and friends. Memorial Service was on Tuesday, 1 p.m. at Diamond Lake Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. There was private interment. Arrangements were with the Morris Nilsen Chapel in Richfield.
(Echo Press - Jan. 17, 1996)
(Echo Press - Jan. 17, 1996)
Clifton A. Myhr age 78, owner of Myhr's Bake Shop in Minneapolis for 34 years and president of the National Bakers Association, died of a heart attack on Sunday at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina. Myhr of Mesa, Arizona, worked at Rafert Baking Company and Sweetheart Bakery in Minneapolis before buying his own bakery at 50th St. and Bryant Avenue S. in Minneapolis in 1948. He taught small business administration at Dunwoody hInstitute in Minneapolis and Anoka-Hennepin Technical College in Anoka and was a member of the International Geneva Association, a group of top chefs and bakers. Myhr had a heart attack in 1980, sold the bakery two years later and moved to Mesa. He was born in Alexandria and graduated from high school there. He learned baking at hotels in Eugene, Oregon and Redding, California. He returned to the Twin Cities when his father died in 1939. He is survived by his wife Irene Myhr; daughters: Donna Jensen of Boulder, Colorado; Julie Hennessy and husband Bob of Bloomington; brothers: Reuben Myhr and Harold Myhr of Alexandria; Lawrence Myhr of Bloomington; sister: Martha Hjelm of Alexandria; grandchildren: Bill Jensen, Erin Hennessy and Sara Jensen; and nieces, nephews and friends. Memorial Service was on Tuesday, 1 p.m. at Diamond Lake Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. There was private interment. Arrangements were with the Morris Nilsen Chapel in Richfield.
(Echo Press - Jan. 17, 1996)
(Echo Press - Jan. 17, 1996)
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