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Darrell Courneya
August 29, 2023
Roy has been in my thoughts of late, because the State Fair brought us together for the 'Milk Run' and getting ready for the Cross-Country Ski season. Also winding down my time training around Como Lake with Roy and Gary Weber, who also passed a few weeks before Roy. Both were/are Como celebrities, well known by almost everyone that made the loops around the lake. Continue to watch over us all, my friends. Rest well, take care-
Wendy Homa (Brock)
September 9, 2022
Deepest Sympathy to Kim, Nancy and family. I remember your father being very active which surely contributed to his long life
We should connect . I live in Apple Valley. Wendy, childhood friend
Amber Rae Bernhardt
September 9, 2022
I didn´t know Roy personally but I had the extraordinary honor of moving my family into his family home which he and his wife kept with loving care for decades. I know our neighbors will always refer to it as "Roy´s House" and at this point so will we. I have heard so many amazing stories about Roy and his family since we moved in last year and we have come to smile at the little things left behind that must have been uniquely him. I am so grateful to inherit his legacy in the neighborhood. I know without a doubt he was loved by all and we will continue to keep his memory in our community for the next generation. All my very best wishes and deepest sympathies to Roy´s family.
Thomas Glenn Brock
September 7, 2022
Our family lived a couple of houses from the Carlsted´s, when they lived on Western Avenue North back in the 1960´s. My sisters were friends with Roy´s daughters Kim and Nancy. As a young fellow of 16 years, Roy had a great influence upon me. Roy was always a friendly helpful neighbor and he helped my dad with a few home electrical jobs. I admired his ability to do electrical work, which inspired me to want to be an electrician years later. Roy could build and fix just about anything including cars. I recall him working on his Volvo station wagons and building a cedar strip canoe in his garage.
I used to ride 10 speed road bikes and I got Roy interested in riding cycles. Roy and I would take some long rides together. A memorable one was from Western Avenue down Wheelock Parkway to Johnson Parkway to Highway 61 South, all the way to Hastings, around the town and back, a round trip of about 50 miles. I was dragging on the way back. I was also into running and would run down Wheelock Parkway and run laps around Como Lake and I also go Roy interested in running.
As a downhill skier Roy introduced me to downhill skiing and later to Cross Country. Roy introduced me to X-C when we were downhill skiing at Lutsen one time. He had his new X-C skis along and showed me how to use them and sent me up the hills on them, wearing his boots that were two sizes too large for me. I made my way up one of the highest slopes and it was quite the ride on the way down, shooshing past the downhill skiers. After that I went out and bought my first pair of wooden waxable X-C skiis.
Back then X-C was all about using wooden skis and wearing woolen attire with nickers. Roy and I looked rather odd back then walking into a cafe after skiing in our foreign looking attire.
Back then, my dad worked two jobs and so he wasn´t around much and didn´t have an interest in skiing or cycling, so Roy became to me like a second dad. Looking back, I was a very lucky young fellow to have Roy in my life.
I probably shouldn´t say this, but back then Roy smoked a pipe and I liked the smell of pipe tobacco. I recall Roy having a knack for burning holes in his clothes. Around 18, I began smoking a pipe and have done so off and on throughout my life by enjoying a pipe full a few times a year. I probably had my first beer with Roy on one of our ski outings and probably my first hang over also. It didn´t take much back then.
Over the years with getting married, having two children and then getting divorced and with life getting in the way, Roy and I drifted in our own directions. The last time I saw Roy was at a North Star Ski Club meeting when he was in his 80´s. I thought about Roy many times over the years and meant to get in touch with him, but the stuff of life got in the way. I regret not staying in contact with him over the years.
Now in my 70´s and not having X-C skied or cycled for some years and having had multiple strokes, I feel inspired to get out those old wooden X-C skis and to hit the trail once again and to get on my cycle for a ride, to honor the memory of Roy and the good times we had together.
There are few people that we meet in life that we connect with on many levels, Roy was one of them for me. So many good memories.
Although I didn´t realize it back then, I was blessed to know and have Roy as an influence in my life as a young man and to have the many good memories to cherish of my times with Roy Carlsted. I hope to meet my good friend once again on the other side.
Thomas Glenn Brock
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John and Nanette Winston
September 6, 2022
Roy was always such a joy to us and a wonderful neighbor. He was always handing us kohlrabi, tomatoes and squash over the fence. We shared our raspberries. We still owe him a beer on the deck.
Beckie (Johnson) Malone
September 5, 2022
We are so sorry for your loss. Roy was a great neighbor, who always worked hard. I have childhood memories of him working to make the single car garage into a double, gardening, and remember seeing him cross country skiing down the street. Roy always had a kind word for all.
John Stafford
September 5, 2022
We will always remember Roy. He was a great neighbor and friend. I still remember helping him work on his old Volvo when I was a kid. He bc was always so easy to talk with. Our kids loved him too.
See you later "Gramps".
Darrell Courneya
September 4, 2022
I will truely miss my longtime friend. Many memories of our times together. Thankful for having Roy as part of my life. Rest well, my friend.
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