04/21/2009

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Myron LaFontaine passed away:
Myron was married to Vickie Hiatt (73): Grafton, ND
 
410 Cooper Ave
Grafton, ND 58327
(701) 520-0329
 
 
From: “Marlys Hiatt” Dunseith, ND
To: “Vickie L. Metcalfe” Bottineau, ND
 
Thanks for this beautiful email. You sure are a keeper too. I had some
sad news this weekend. My sister Vickie found her husband dead on
saturday evening at their home. He had been really ill. She has her
family (3 girls)in Grafton who are there for her. Keep them in your
prayers.

Marlys

Vickie, What a shock to hear of the passing of your husband Myron. I knew he was not well, but this is still a shock. Our condolence are with you and your family with his passing. How well I remember you as the cute little girl of Norman and Irene that always had a lot to say in your days shortly after learning to walk. Lorie picked up in your foot steps a few years later. I don’t remember Marlys as being quite as loquacious as you and Lorie. Gary
 
 
 
Reply from Vickie L. Metcalfe (70) Bottineau, ND
 
WINIFRED EURICH, 90, of Dunseith, died Sunday at a Bottineau
hospital. (Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau)
Mom, Grandmother, Great grandmother and Great-great grandmother.
Member of the Dunseith Community and friend.
Winifred, was a dear classmate of Aunt Leona (Metcalfe) Oswell. The
last time Leona was in ND she spent an afternoon visiting Winnifred
at her farm home.

Vickie

 
 
 
Reply from John Tangen: ????, California
 
Gary,
 
Really enjoyed the write-up about your dad. I never knew him real well, but after they moved into Bottineau I realized how special and friendly (and unique) he really was — and the storyteller, too. One of my mom’s favorite memories was the afternoon (sometime in the1990’s) when Bob took my mom and her two sisters (Ella and Lillian) bomping across the fields in his pickup to see all the old places where they’d lived years earlier. The three sisters really enjoyed that excursion!
 
Am not sure how to reply to the newsletter without including the text of the whole newsletter, so you’re getting it this way. What’s the procedure?
 
John
John, I thought I had your snail mail address, but discovered I do not. You can reply and send messages to me with what ever method works best for you. It makes no difference to me how I get them. I copy and paste everything into daily messages.
 
Folks, John’s mother was Esther Tangen. Esther and Ella (Thompson) Pladson were sisters, so John is a first cousin to all of Eldon/Ella Pladson siblings. Esther and Ella were first cousins to Dad on his adopted side. John was born and raised in Bottineau.
 
John, Riding with dad across fields and back roads was always an experience. Often times folks had to put on their seat belts just to be able to stay in the seat. High gear was often his gear of choice. I’ll never forget several years before he died, he took me out to show me my brother Darrel’s (Bud) crop in his pickup. Bud had warren him to stay on the main road because the fields were kind of soft and he may get stuck. Well, he just had to show me this one field, off the main road, and we almost got stuck. Mud was flying every where, but we made it. His comments were, “don’t tell Bud” and he was serious. He ran his pickup through the car wash on the way home to hide the evidence he’d been where he shouldn’t have been. He didn’t want Bud asking any questions, after having been warned not to go where he did. Gary
 
 
Reply from Aggie Casavant (69: Fort Mill, SC
 
Hi Gary, Your e-mail is the best news I’ve ever gotten, because I just got my first computer a couple weeks ago, I just know the very basics,and had the night off tonight, so I was messing around with it trying to learn new things. I hit the send button and I thought It said I had sent everyone on my e-mail list all my drafts I saved, Wow what a sick feeling, for someone’s who’s a pretty private person. So Gary thanks for taking the pressure off….While I’m writing you, I just want to say thanks for this web site. I’ve been in touch with a couple people that I would of never have known where they were if it hadn’t been for this website. Another thing you have no idea how many times that nasty Michael Moore has crossed my mind while looking at all the pictures from Fargo, and all the positive postings from all over the world about the people of N.Dakota, I was just sorry to see some of those postings from out of N.Dakota get so mean spirited about New Orleans. But never the less the website was interesting…Well gotta go, thanks again for everything.
 
 
 
 
Shirley Houle Vandal:
 
Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND
 
By the way, I told Shirley Vandal today that I was sending the news of her award to you to include in your newsletters. She kind of blushed and said it wasn’t necessary; I said it was necessary–what else can a humble person answer—right? Ha!
 
Therman/Marie Parrill were at the musical event today. :)
 
Neola
Neola, Thurman & Marie are my god parents. Gary
 
 
 
Reply from Don Aird (Carroll Carlson’s Nephew): St. Louis, MO
 
I live in St Louis, Misery. We are here taking care of my wife’s parents. Over the years I’ve been watching them tear up the old shelter belts in the Red River Valley I’m glad my Dad didn’t live to see this happen.
 
 
 
Reply from Colette Hosmer (64): Santa Fe, NM
 
Thanks for the photos, Gary, you have a beautiful family. Your Dad still looks big and strong even three weeks before his death.

 
Colette
 
 
 
 
Reply from Diane Larson Sjol (70): Minot, ND
 
This was a great entry! I love to read the history of our
families…and now to Cheryl and Beverly….both of you were there in
the basement…..you know Cheryl, maybe you weren’t because if you
were I would have been afraid you would have told mom on my but for
sure Bev, Duane and Debbie were there…those naughty Morinville
kids..haha..And it was probably all Dennis’ fault.
Diane
 
 
 
Pictures posted by Cheryl Larson Dakin (71): BEDFORD, TX
 

HI Gary

This is in reply to Diane and Bev…..If Bev wasn’t there, neither was I. If it was a Saturday, we were probably at catechism. HA.

Also, I am enclosing a photo of 3 ladies…my mom Verdellis is in the middle, I think it’s Joyce Fasset on the right. I don’t know who the other lady is. Maybe a Grenier? The other is of my mom and her sisters, Lee Hosmer on the left and Jerrine Larson in the middle, taken in 2002. Three of the most beautiful women I have ever known.

Thanks Gary

Cheryl
 
Joyce Fassett?, Verdellis Richard Larson & Grenier???

 

Richard Sisters 2002

 

Lee Hosmer, Verdellis Larson & Jerrine Larson

 

 

 

 

Message/Picture from Mel Kuhn (70): St. John, ND

 

Howdy Gary,
 
Here’s a picture of Brenda, Dick & Ron. This was at the Historical Society Music Night last night in St. John. We had not quite as large a crowd as last year but we had some great music and fun was had by all.
 
Mel
 
 

 

 

From Sharron Gottbreht Shen (59): Everett, WA

Dear Gary,

Too much work for you Gary! I forward this note along with the Boucher files that were used by the Louis Boucher family of Iowa. I know you will be able to extract the data for Boucher of Rolette county.
I have done work on DUCHESNEAU; CASAVANT; HOULE; FONTAINE; RIVARD; DIONNE and Carmen’s BESNERT line. Much that I have done was with the assistance of Marcel Gauthier, wizard and sec. of the Duchesneau family association. Marcel solved the CARBONNEAU trace that frustrated George Carbonneau for years. It was because of the genealogy work that George published that I was finally able to trace my Gaudet heritage. I know that the COTE have done extensive work. Lloyd Awalt family may have the COTE material that would be of interest to many? Also Bill Awalt’s wife was searching in MO [?] for Awalt data.

Too too much! Sharron

Folks, this reply from Sharron was is in reply to my asking her for the Boucher Family info. I plan on putting together a simple family graph for the Boucher family after I am finished with the Hiatt’s. Again, I plan on only plotting 4 generations starting with Sharron’s great grandfather, the same as I’m doing for the Hiatt family and that I did for the Richard family. Gary

 

 

 

Reply from Marlene Richard Parslow (65): River Falls, WI 54022 & Sunlakes, AZ 85248

 

Hi Gary,

I am not able to pull up your attachment. My husband and I just returned to Wisconsin from our winter home in Arizona. This computer is not able to get it. When I get my laptop unpacked I will try to get it off that. I want to check my family’s(Ernest Richard children) information and get it back to you before you print out the final product. Thanks for being patient as I get organized here.

Wow!! You amaze me with your communication skills in keeping everyone informed!! I am blessed to be a part of this network!
Thanks!!!
Marlene(Richard) Parslow
1-651-246-4006

Hey Gary,

I was able to view the Family tree in this e-mail!!! Yeah!! Here are my siblings in order from Oldest to Youngest:

Larry(Lawrence) Richard
Marlene Parslow
LeRoy Richard
Dianne Bowles
Lester Richard
Jim (James) Richard
Mike (Michael) Richard
Deb (Deborah) Hartung
Peg (Margaret) Forester
Brad (Bradley) Richard

My father, Ernest Richard, was married to my Mom, Beatrice Slyter, on May 16, 1944

Thanks for updating our information. If you need additional information, please let me know. Thanks again!!
Marlene

 

 

 

Richard family tree:

 

Folks, this is the latest update of the Richard Family tree. I have incorporated all the additions and correction that you folks have sent to me.

I have also attached the Power Point slide of this graph.

I am currently working on a Hiatt Graph. They too are a very large family.

 

Putting these graphs together brings back memories of my working days at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Power Point graphs of this nature were one of the tools we used to communicate our schedules. Gary