I met Lynne while on a bike ride in WI in 1998. We were both elementary teachers, had recently lost our husbands and taken up biking, only to discover we were high school classmates! We biked and traveled to Mexico one spring break before she was tragically killed on her bike in Northfield where she lived. She was a great friend.
Lynne was a wonderful friend in high school, and I was maid of honor at her wedding. I spoke with her brother Jim, class of '68, about how we are remembering classmates for our 50th HS Reunion. He sent me the following in memory of Lynne.
Lynne Knoblauch Cybyske: 1947 - 2000
Lynne's children and I, her younger brother Jim, are deeply touched that her high school classmates still remember her, 15 years after she was killed in a bicycling accident. It is only in retrospect that it becomes clear how much the values she learned in Edina shaped the rest of her life. She was very much inspired by the excellent teachers, Mr. Stott in particular, that gave her a true love of learning and teaching. She became an impassioned elementary school teacher, and she continued to teach after her children were born and her husband died.
I remember that Lynne was a very busy person in high school. From the Friday night pre-game potluck suppers during football season to the late-night theater rehearsals, she didn't spend much time at home! My parents always had trouble trying to remember where they were supposed to collect her, especially in those days before cell phones and instant communication. I used to tease her that she was the world's oldest girl scout, but she continued in scouting nonetheless. She was somewhat scatter-brained, to the deep frustration of my parents. Sometimes they would pick her up after some event, and she frequently forgot something like her purse and they had to go back to retrieve it. She was always too busy to pursue getting a drivers license, and I teased her that she was the only person I knew over 16 that still didn't know how to drive. It wasn't until she was a sophomore in college that she finally got that license and could drive herself where she needed to go!
Lynne met her husband two years after high school at the University of Minnesota. Despite their short lives, they really tried to make a difference to the children they taught, and they were both dedicated teachers and counselors. Her oldest daughter Holly lives with her husband in Eden Prairie, her daughter Heather lives near Rochester, and Heather's twin brother Scot and family live in Plymouth. All of them look in on our 96 year old mother in the nursing home. It was hard on them when Lynne died because their father died six years before her, but they have all become wonderful adults.
Katie R. Rickord (Angle)
I met Lynne while on a bike ride in WI in 1998. We were both elementary teachers, had recently lost our husbands and taken up biking, only to discover we were high school classmates! We biked and traveled to Mexico one spring break before she was tragically killed on her bike in Northfield where she lived. She was a great friend.
Ellen Rose Thayer
Lynne was a wonderful friend in high school, and I was maid of honor at her wedding. I spoke with her brother Jim, class of '68, about how we are remembering classmates for our 50th HS Reunion. He sent me the following in memory of Lynne.
Lynne Knoblauch Cybyske: 1947 - 2000
Lynne's children and I, her younger brother Jim, are deeply touched that her high school classmates still remember her, 15 years after she was killed in a bicycling accident. It is only in retrospect that it becomes clear how much the values she learned in Edina shaped the rest of her life. She was very much inspired by the excellent teachers, Mr. Stott in particular, that gave her a true love of learning and teaching. She became an impassioned elementary school teacher, and she continued to teach after her children were born and her husband died.
I remember that Lynne was a very busy person in high school. From the Friday night pre-game potluck suppers during football season to the late-night theater rehearsals, she didn't spend much time at home! My parents always had trouble trying to remember where they were supposed to collect her, especially in those days before cell phones and instant communication. I used to tease her that she was the world's oldest girl scout, but she continued in scouting nonetheless. She was somewhat scatter-brained, to the deep frustration of my parents. Sometimes they would pick her up after some event, and she frequently forgot something like her purse and they had to go back to retrieve it. She was always too busy to pursue getting a drivers license, and I teased her that she was the only person I knew over 16 that still didn't know how to drive. It wasn't until she was a sophomore in college that she finally got that license and could drive herself where she needed to go!
Lynne met her husband two years after high school at the University of Minnesota. Despite their short lives, they really tried to make a difference to the children they taught, and they were both dedicated teachers and counselors. Her oldest daughter Holly lives with her husband in Eden Prairie, her daughter Heather lives near Rochester, and Heather's twin brother Scot and family live in Plymouth. All of them look in on our 96 year old mother in the nursing home. It was hard on them when Lynne died because their father died six years before her, but they have all become wonderful adults.