Memories – Bob Page – Race car accident that killed Kenneth Tweten
Posting from Lois Tweten: Helena MT
Gary & Dick J
I’ve been out of town in Wyoming and just now come across this note.
Why this is interesting to me :
My Dad, Kenneth Tweten, age 33, was working at the “shop” where Bob Page worked/owned where they built the jalopy that my Dad was killed with in October 1948
What I remember was seeing my Dad get hit with the car that had hit a dog, and then ran into his jalopy. Then Mom (Ann) threw her new camera, and Bob Page grabbing her while she was running to Dad and screaming. He died at St Andrews an hour and a half later. I was 6. Johnnie (now goes by Ken) was 7 and saw a man shoot the dog.
What I’d like to know is what the shop name was (it was a block from main street to the S) and if any of his family have memories of this event to share with me. Bev Morinville Azure told me while I was at the souvenir shop in Dunseith a couple of years ago that her folks were there and could never return for race events.
I’m trying to sort through some of my old boxes to find a picture of the jalopy for you Dick. The Mrs. Page mentioned below, was she in the above mentioned Bob Page’s generation.?
With old memories,
Lois Tweten
Previously posted
Reply from Vickie Metcalfe (70): Bottineau, ND
Gary and Brenda,
Re:Bottineau Page Family,
Mrs. Bob Page is Kathleen Law Page, formerly from Finnegan Township near Rolette.
She attended country school many years ago, with my Uncle Charles Anklam.
Her mother was the teacher and author, Laura Thompson Law.
Follow-up reply from Lois
Hi Gary & Dick,
I should have read other notes before I sent the 1st note.I rememer now the shop was the John Deere Dealership!
Lois
Eddy Desjarlais Memories
From Mary Eurich Knutson (62): Dunseith, ND
Hi Gary
I think winter is about to hit. The patrolman had a lady with a small
child on a 4 wheeler stopped on the street. She was wearing flannel
pajama pants and a parka.
When Vicki Metcalfe mentioned Andy Desjarlais the famous fiddle player
it made me think back to the days of threshing crews again. There was a new
guy on the crew one fall who said his name was Eddy Desjarlais . He
said Andy Desjarlais was his brother. He was just an awfully nice guy.
Real polite. When he’d come in for the evening
with his team he’d always take care of his team first and then get the
pails and haul water to the house and then split and carry wood in.
Talk about being appreciated. That was way
over and above what he was hired for. We always wondered if he was
reallly who he said he was. When he left he asked to be paid in cash.
We never saw him again.
Mary K
Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND
Rodney Parrill (’73) wins the Bottineau yard of the year award
Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND
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Sherri Slyter Millang – Owner/manager of Sher’s Cafe, Lake Metigoshe
Joke of the day
Posted by Sharron Gottbreht Shen (59): Everett, WA
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet and shortly after, a story in an LA newspaper read:”California archaeologists’ discover 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.”
One week later, a local newspaper in North Dakota reported the following: “After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Center, ND, Ole, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Ole, has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, North Dakota, had already gone wireless.”
Makes one proud to have lived in North Dakota.
