Minot Daily News

BOTTINEAU Sylvia May Bergan, 98, Bottineau, died Friday, May 15, 2009, in a Bottineau hospital.

She was born Oct. 24, 1910, to Grover and Cora Lockhart in Tabor, Alb. She married Oscar Bergan July 23, 1929, at Cando.

She is survived by four nieces.

Funeral: Monday, 10 a.m., Metigoshe Lutheran Church, Bottineau.

Burial: Salem Cemetery, rural Bottineau.

Visitation: Today, 1 to 9 p.m., Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau.

I was sadden to hear of Sylvia’s passing. Jan Bergan Evans mentioned that she visited Sylvia several weeks ago. She said Sylvia was sleeping so she did not wake her. Sylvia was living in long term care at Saint Andrews hospital in Bottineau. Oscar and Sylvia were very close and dear friends of our family. We visited them often. We were all very active members of Salem church. Oscar and Sylvia were wonderful folks. Oscar was a carpenter. He had way more work than he could handle building and remodeling cabins at Lake Metigoshe. Sylvia was a great crafts person, baker and cook. She was well known throughout the area for her baking abilities, especially for her pies. I last saw Sylvia at my mothers funeral in July 2004. She was helping serve lunch following her funeral at the Metigoshe Christian center. Sylvia was a very beautiful and stylish lady always being well groomed and well dressed. She never ever looked her age. When I saw her at the bowling alley cafe shortly after she had celebrated her 90th birthday, she didn’t look a day over 60. Oscar and Sylvia did not have any children.

Reading the Striker family history, I noticed that Sylvia’s mother was a Striker. That makes her related to a lot of you folks. I always knew her maiden name was Lockhart, but was surprised to see she is part of the Striker family too. Gary

Posted form message 348 on 1/23/09

 

Reply from Mona Dionne Johnson (48):

 

Gar;y: Our cottage was not very far from the Metigoshe Store (Hobbs),
perhaps a mile, and we went there often. If we were working on the
boathouse or something and took a break, Chuck, Ross (our son) and I
would go for a snack, and this is where we met Sylvia Bergan, as she
worked for them and she baked the BEST frosted ginger cookies that I
have ever tasted. Ross just loved them, and was raring to go when we
said we were going to the store. Harvey & Arvilla were so well liked at
the Lake and ran a good business, and would help you in any way they
could. We missed them when they moved away.
Mona Dionne Johnson, ’48

Reply from Gary Metcalfe (57): Forsyth, MO

Gary, first off I want to correct a very careless error of mine from yesterday’s message. I had Janice’s mother, Emma, on my mind when I wrote that little article about her. I want to thank those of you that pointed that out to me. I am reposting that comment with the corrections with today’s message.

Kay Nelson, can you answer Gary Metcalfe’s question about Winnie and Roy? Thanks, Gary

Reposted with Corrections from Yesterday:

Janice Stiker Nelson Fagan(47): Lincoln, CA

Daughter Kay Nelson’s email address

 

Follow up from yesterdays blog. I was able to contact Janice Striker Nelson today. She is convalescing in a nursing home from a fall that resulted in a broken hip or pelvis, I forgot which. She thinks she will be able to go home in several weeks.

 

Gary Metcalfe was able to provide enough info about Janice that enabled Eileen Brudwick to locate her with her searches. I was pleasantly surprised when I had a voice mail message from Janice’s daughter, Kay Nelson, letting me know we had found the right Janice.

 

I had a very nice chat today with Janice. I was very surprised when she told me her mother was a Lagerquist, sister to John and also Edna, Mrs. Harold Woodford. I had totally forgotten that. Janice is related to the Pearson’s too. When I mentioned Charlene, she said “that cute little red head.” She told me they lived where Arnold Zeiler used to live and she said that is where Lyle Zeiler (61) presently lives. She told me she is related to Lyle’s wife Sharon Pearson Zeiler (62). Sandra Zeiler Vandal, she remembers you too. She also mentioned Rodney Lagerquist. She said her daughter used to pretend he was her doll. That would have been Kay. She was born in 1947 and Rodney in 1949. Gary Metcalfe, she remembers you well too. She also knew the Hagen’s really well and also most of the Hiatt’s and Radley’s. Janice and her family moved to Californian in 1957. When I talked to Kay, Janice’s daughter, this evening, she told me she see’s her mother often and will share all this interesting Dunseith stuff with her. I told her I would add her to our daily distribution and for her to let me know if she ever wants to be discontinued in the future. She and her mother seemed pretty interested in all this Dunseith stuff though. They are super friendly folks. Looking at the Striker’s history in the Dunseith book, I noticed that Sylvia Lockhart Bergan and Emma Striker are first cousins too. Mrs. Lockhart was a Striker.

 

Gary