Elaine E. Lidster, 85 of Dalhart, passed away on September 14, 2022. A Funeral Service is scheduled for 3:00pm on Thursday, September 22, 2022 at Hillside Church with Pastor Robert Ledbetter officiating and Gale Kimerer assisting. Interment will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs. Lidster will lay in state from 1:00 - 2:30pm on Thursday at the church before the funeral. Arrangements are entrusted to Horizon Funeral Home. Elaine Ellyn Lidster was born to George and Wilda Kimerer December 4, 1936, in Britton, Michigan. She was the first child of the family and was a good student at school and grew under the mentorship of her loving mother. During the war years she and other young ladies from the Nazarene Church in Ridgeway, Michigan, began writing to soldiers from their church. Elaine wrote to a young Cloyce Lidster and a life-long love was born. Cloyce was assigned in the Army Air Corp and worked building communications towers in Alaska. After military service he returned home and proposed to Elaine. Her parents gave their blessing with one condition, Elaine had to finish High School. Elaine and Cloyce married, September 9, 1955, after her May graduation, and settled down making a family and a life. Cloyce worked in a factory, Tecumseh Products, during the day and farmed at night. Elaine kept the household running and did her share of farming. Long hours and hard work resulted in the purchase of their first farm in 1955 near Clayton, Michigan. Wayne Allen Lidster was born in 1956 and Barbara Elaine Lidster in 1959. Elaine never turned away a job, even plowing fields the day before Waynes birth and mowing lawns the day before Barbara arrived. Elaine was a mom, farmhand, bookkeeper, truck driver, whatever needed to be done, she did. Wanting to find more acres and richer soil, Cloyce and Elaine began to do what was rare for farmers of that day, they were looking to relocate. The search resulted in them moving to Claremont, Minnesota where more acres could be found, and the family farm operation could expand. Innovation was part of the couples nature. They expanded the farm in size and added a large indoor hog facility which was a one-of-a-kind for individual farms of that time. Once again, the desire for expansion came and once again the family began to search for a new location where they could farm more acres and where Wayne and his wife Cindy (Petersburg) Lidster could also be part of the operation. It was in Dalhart Texas that the family found over 6,000 acres of irrigated farmland and much warmer conditions. The Lidsters made Dalhart their home in every way, practicing family, faith, and farming. They were active at First Baptist Church and the family was fully immersed in the community. Elaine was no less busy with the farm operation, but she added a few other jobs, one of her favorites being grandmother. Grandmas house was the place to be for fun and learning activities. No grandchild would turn down a visit there. Elaine became known as a gifted seamstress and artist. When confronted with a special sewing need or even a costume requests, she would always take a moment to assess the job and respond with a reassuring "I think I can do that." And she could. Overtime, the farm operation became more and more under Waynes leadership giving Cloyce and Elaine time to follow another passion of theirs, travel and visiting friends and family. Winters were spent in south Texas, Florida and Arizona. Eventually, they escaped the heat of Texas summers to a cabin they restored in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The couple made these retreats each year but, until most recent times, they were always home and involved in their favorite events, planting and harvest. Elaine is preceded in death by her husband Cloyce father George, mother Wilda and her sisters Edie Fike and Letha Daniels. She is survived by her son Wayne Lidster and his wife Cindy, daughter Barbara Ledbetter and her husband Robert, one sister Lois Brockway, her husband John, her little brother Gale Kimerer and his wife Mary and two bother-in-laws, Gary Daniels and Marv Fike. Elaine has seven grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren . Home at last, we love and miss you mom! To plant Memorial Trees in memory of Elaine E. Lidster, please click here to visit our Sympathy Store. Funeral Service Hillside Christian Church Thursday, September 22, 2022 3:00 PM 409 Denrock Ave Dalhart, Texas 79022