Lake Street in Minneapolis, driving from the farm 'six days a week,' something he continued to do into his 80s, his son said.

'He always told me, 'Only 3 percent of people need farm machinery, but everyone needs a car - some two or three.''Д¬ars - 'especially flashy ones, convertibles, Corvettes and Cadillacs' - became a passion, and by the early '60s, he was running a lot on E. One day he traded some farm machinery for a car and sold the car for a small profit, 'and that was the start of everything,' Dale said. Sears married and continued to live on the farm. He was just knowledge-happy.'ДЄ few years passed. 'He'd work late into the evening, then come home and read for hours,' his son said. He quit school, but remained an eager learner. they get home with news - they'd decided to sell the farm and move to Red Wing.' Sears, who loved the farmstead, was dismayed, and begged them to let him stay and run things by himself. 'When he was 16, he came home from school and his parents were gone,' said his son Dale, of Ellsworth, Wis. Sears, an only child, was born in Red Wing and grew up on his parents' farm near Bay City. The longtime resident of a farm near Bay City, Wis., was 85, and had been hale until a leukemia diagnosis just four weeks earlier. Donald Sears, who propelled a passion for cars, people and hard work into a highly successful Twin Cities auto dealership, died Oct.

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