Cinda, I am very proud of you for being
chosen 2008 Swedish Festival Queen. I know you are totally
surprised by this. This was so hard for me to keep quiet about
this. The biggest thing that is so funny is you were inviting a lot
of your family to the Festival and you didn’t even know you were
going to be the Queen.
Cinda was born in Scottsbluff,
Nebraska, to Dale and Pat Gering. She is the third child of nine. Cinda
actually came from royalty, as her great great grandparents were Gerings and
Scotts. They were the people who started Gering and Scottsbluff.
She graduated from Hay Springs High
School and from Chadron State College with a degree in teaching and interior
decorating. Cinda and I were married in 1972 and she then became a teacher’s
wife and a coach’s wife. She started teaching in Benedict, Nebraska, in 1980
and taught there for a few years. She then taught in Stromsburg for several
years. Cinda now owns and operates her own interior decorating business,
Cinda’s Creations.
Cinda has done many different things in
her life which I hope I can remember them all. The most important to me is that
she was able to show so many people, not only in Stromsburg, but all over the
country, how to be a mother to two little angels that God gave to her, our
daughters Nikki and Kami. Not many people could cope with this and also have
the stress of being the football coach’s wife. Her feat here was well and above
all other things she has done.
As a member of the Salem Lutheran
Church, Cinda shares her decorating skills and talents by creating paraments and
banners and re-decorating rooms in the church and parsonage. She is also
serving on the call committee and is always front and center in helping others
with things that need to be done. Cinda is an active member of the Stromsburg
Woman’s Civic Improvement Club and she has been the chairman of the Bloodmobile
for many years. She helps with the Festival in various capacities. She serves
on the committee for Taste of Sweden, works on the smorgasbord, decorating
tables at the smorgasbord, helping me with the parade when I was chairman of the
parade. She also serves on the Viking Board, belongs to the Stromsburg Chamber,
has served many offices in her P.E.O. organization. She is the Nebraska
Regional chairperson for Cottey College, trying to get young girls to attend
college there. These are just some of the ways Cinda has helped -- and
continues to help -- our community.
One of the things that she does that is
probably the most important to the football players is that she bakes them
brownies and seems to always want to treat them. She has only missed 2 varsity
football games in the 36 years we have been married. She attends many of the
school’s activities and is a great supporter of what the school does.
Cinda will go overboard to do things
for people. She sometimes drives me nuts with her kindness – guess it makes me
jealous of how kind she can be.
Cinda, you have always been a queen to
me, but now for all the kindness you do and all the hard work you do for
everyone, you have been chosen queen of Stromsburg. You really do deserve it.
