Editing Lily, South Dakota (section)

==Notable people==
In 1889 Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]]’s maternal grandfather, Andrew Gutorm Sannes, settled his family in Lily. With his wife, Tomina Larson, and five children (including Kristine - b. 1883, Norway, mother of the future vice president), they moved here, where they had 6 more children. Andrew Sannes, an immigrant Norwegian sea captain (with the dashed dream of being a Mississippi River boat captain), opened a drugstore in the corner of the general store. Their third child, Sophia, was their first-borne in the U.S., in Lily (December 1891); and their last child born in Lily was Thorvald, on September 18, 1900.<ref>rodovid.org</ref>

Hubert Humphrey, Sr., after graduating from the [[Drew School of Pharmacy]] in [[Minneapolis]], Minnesota, moved to Lily in 1903 and opened his first drugstore. (Today a small white sign cryptically marks the empty corner lot where the store had stood.) Here, he met Kristine Sannes, the woman who would become his wife. They married on April 16, 1906, in Lily.<ref>The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics by Hubert Horatio Humphrey</ref>

In 1907 they moved to [[Wallace, South Dakota]], where Hubert Humphrey, Jr., the notable politician, was born on May 27, 1911, in a bedroom over his father’s drugstore. Hubert Humphrey, Jr., states, "I was baptized in the Highland Lutheran church in a rural section just north of Lily, South Dakota."<ref>letter to Rev. Tenner Thompson, March 1945</ref>

In 2010, a video detailing the history of Lily was created by the [[McQuillen Creative Group]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mcquillencreative.com/|title=McQuillen Creative Group, Inc. &#124; Websites, Video Production, Graphic Design, Logos|date=May 8, 2014|website=mcquillencreative.com}}</ref>  This video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=39&v=nzSXHxGykC0 Memories of Lily - A Letter to Oprah] submitted to Oprah Winfrey (who sponsored the contest to raise awareness of rural towns) depicts the essence of current day Lily.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211210/nzSXHxGykC0 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20181212013126/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzSXHxGykC0 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=39&v=nzSXHxGykC0| title = Memories of Lily - A Letter to Oprah | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>