Borghild G. Filas
March 21, 1921 – April 14, 2011
Golden, Colorado
Borghild (Borg) Filas passed away on Thursday, April 14 from heart failure. The daughter of Gunder and Olga Landsverk, she was born March 21, 1921 near Dunseith, North Dakota. She attended grade school in a one-room school house near her home and high school in Dunseith. After graduating from high school, she moved to Minneapolis/Saint Paul where she worked as an airplane mechanic during World War II. It was there that she met her future husband, John Filas, while both were working on top of a B-24 Bomber. They were married on September 9, 1945.
Borg and John moved to Wisconsin in early 1949 and started the Hi-Way Queen drive-in between Rio and Wyocena on Highway 16. The business was well known for its excellent food and Borg came to know just about everyone in the area. They sold the restaurant in 1960 and moved to Chicago where Borg operated a comptometer, which was the precursor to the modern-day calculator. Good comptometer operators were in demand so she readily found work throughout the Chicago area, including counting votes on Election Day at city hall. In 1964, Borg returned to Wisconsin where she worked as the payroll and insurance supervisor for Madison Gas and Electric until her retirement in 1984. In retirement, Borg and John enjoyed visiting with family and friends and traveling throughout the country. After John passed away in 2004, Borg moved to Golden, Colorado to live with her only son and his family. Borg is survived by her son Frank and daughter-in-law Barbara; her grandsons Benjamen and Harrison; her brother Erling (Joann) Landsverk and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband John Filas, brothers Rolf and Ossie Landsverk, and her sister Thelma Johnson. A funeral service for family and friends will be held for Borghild Filas on Thursday, April 21 at Evergreen Memorial Park in Evergreen, Colorado. Visitation will start at 4pm and the service will begin at 5pm. A “Celebration of Life” ceremony will be held on June 4, 2011 for Borg at the Bonnet Prairie Lutheran Church at N3694 Old F Road in Rio, Wisconsin. Visitation will start at fpm. Additional details will be provided in the local newspapers and on the church’s website. Borg’s family encourages all of Borg’s friends and relatives to join them to celebrate her life at the Celebration of Life in Wisconsin. Flowers, which she loved, or donations in lieu of flowers can be sent/made to the Bonnet Prairie Lutheran Church.
Jean Nicholas Miller (66)
Glen W class of ’52
Glen, It is so sad to see what was once a beautiful facility being in the shambles that it is today. I, and I am sure like a whole lot of you, did not read the caption at the top of the pictures of that Website until it was brought to my attention about the statement of the treatment of patients being degenerated. That I believe is a very untrue statement. To my knowledge the staffing was always at an acceptable level and the patients were always well taken care of.
read it to her and printed it off. Today (the 21st) she came in to my
store with an arm full of pictures. Here are four of them. She is
quite the lady. Rod and you (through this blog) made her day. Karen
Larson
Karen, Thank you so much for doing all this for Arla. Arla Hall is well respected and remembered by so many of our readers. She was a great teacher too. For those of us that did not know her that well, her name is so very common. I have known the Arla Hall name my entire life. She is a remarkable lady. Gary
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From Bob Hosmer (56): Lynnwood, WA
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From Audrey Hanson Aitchitson: Bottineau, ND
Hi Gary,
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From Vickie Metcalfe (70): Bottineau, ND
Gary and Karen,
Vickie, That was my guess too. Kind of a handsome devil too. I’ll bet those were and are Theresa’s thoughts too. Gary
Art, Much of the state of ND is affected with flooding as is very evident with the all the pictures you sent. The past few years, the flooding just seems to get worse each year. How devastating. I would love to post the PDF file with all the pictures you sent, but the file is just too big for posting, even as an attachment. I have included one of the Grand Forks pictures below. Thanks for sharing. Gary
Three Norwegians go down to Mexico to celebrate college graduation.
They get drunk, and wake up in jail, only to find that they are to be
executed in the morning, though none of them can remember what
they did the night before.
The first one, Sven, is strapped in the electric chair, and is asked if he
has any last words. He says, “I yust graduated from St. Olaf College in
NorthfieldMinnesota and believe in the almighty power of God to
intervene on the behalf of the innocent.”
They throw the switch and nothing happens. They all immediately fall
to the floor on their knees; beg for Sven’s forgiveness, and release him.
The second, Lars, is strapped in and gives his last words, “I yust
graduated from da Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and I
believe in the power of justice to intervene on the part of the innocent..”
They throw the switch and, again, nothing happens. Again, they all
immediately fall to their knees; beg for his forgiveness, and release him.
The last one, Ole, is strapped in and he says, “Vell, den, I’m from
Nort’ Dakota State in Fargo and I yust graduated vit a degree in Electrical Engineering, and I’ll tell ya right now, ya ain’t gonna electrocute nobody
if you don’t plug this ting in.”