Margaret Henwood Lytle was born January 9, 1920 in Holyoke, Mass. to Proctor and Ethel Henwood. She died April 23, 2014 in Rochester, MN at The Homestead Senior Living Facility. Visitation will be Monday, April 28, at Eidsness Funeral Home from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Funeral services will be held at First Presbyterian Church in Brookings at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29. Memorial gifts may be made to the William and Margaret Lytle Scholarship in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at South Dakota State University. Margaret grew up in Urbana, Ill where her father was a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois. She lived only a few blocks apart from her future husband, William Fullenwider Lytle, the son of a University of Illinois math professor. She attended the University of Illinois and married William Lytle on March 6, 1948. William's career as a University professor in agricultural engineering and meteorology took the family first to University of Illinois in Urbana, then to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and finally to South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. Together they raised three children, Robert, Nancy , and Kathryn. Margaret was an excellent homemaker and crafter teaching her daughters the arts of sewing, knitting, crochet and needlework. Both Margaret and William were great classical music lovers and encouraged their children to like music and play musical instruments. One of the joys of her later years was to continue to take piano lessons. Margaret was an active member of First Presbyterian Church where she sang in the choir and also served as a deacon. Because William served in local and regional offices of the charitable organization, Kiwanis International, she participated in the many activities and fundraising efforts of the local and national Kiwanis organization. Among other activities, she served on the Board of the United Retirement Center, volunteered for the Brookings Hospital Auxiliary, and was a member of a local chapter of P.E.O. International. Margaret is survived by two of her children: Nancy (James) Ledbetter and their two children, Stephen and Andrew; and Robert Lytle (Kathleen) and their three children, Jessica (Ben) McAlister, Anna, and Christian. The great grandchildren are Hailey and Jonathan, children of Jessica and Ben McAlister. Margaret was preceded in death by her daughter, Kathryn Lytle, in 1968, and by her husband, William, in 2001.