Thank you Carl for this beautiful thank you poem. Very nice.

 

We are glad to hear that you are on the mend and winning the Battle. How wonderful.

 

We are looking forward to seeing you in July with our trip back. Vonda tells me you are still on the farm. You realize this summer it has been 50 years since the summer I lived with and worked for you guys. We put in a lot of fence posts that summer up on the Pritchard place next to the Canadian line too. You had a hudraulic post driver mounted on the front of one of your tractors that would drive any unsharped wood post several feet into any solid ground.

 

Gary 

 

 

She was born March 2, 1916 in Dunseith, North Dakota at home in the Turtle Mountains to parents Henry and Charlotte Hiatt.  She was the third of eight children.  She had two brothers and five sisters. 

Alice married Stanley Seymour Dalbec on December 10, 1938 in Bottineau, North Dakota, who preceded her in death on May 9, 1992.  They have a daughter and three sons.  Alice and Stanley moved to Medford in the summer of 1951 and have made the Rogue Valley their home ever since. She had lived with her daughter Marvel for the past nine years until her passing.

Alice was the matriarch of the family and kept five generations of family going strong.  Her favorite things to do were to crochet, bake and spend her time with family surrounded by her many grandchildren which she loved very much.  She made sure everyone of her fifty five grandchildren had a crocheted blanket to remember her by.  She was very happy playing cards and games with her family.  She taught her children and grandchildren the art of making lefsa for the holiday meal and this became a tradition that will be followed for many years to come. 

Alice is survived by her daughter Marvel of White City, Son Gene Sr of White City, son Ronald and wife Mary, Medford.  She is also survived by her 12 grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren and 14 great great grandchildren and one more due in September. 

Alice joins her husband Stanley in the heavens with two brothers; Harold and Amos, five sisters; Marie, Gladys, Lilly, Betty and Beatrice, and one son; Keith.

A memorial service will be held at Memory Gardens on Arnold Lane in Medford, Oregon on June 7^th, 2013 at 2:00 pm.

Gene,

 

Our condolence are with you with the passing of your mother. Her passing marks the end of the Henry Hiatt family siblings.

 

To put things in perspective, I have pasted a picture below of your Grandfathers siblings. As I have commented before, in this picture Norman Hiatt was a strong resemblance to Amos. Norman was the only child of Willie (Will J.) and Margie Hiatt.

 

Gene, Not sure if you realize it, but  you have one heck of a lot relatives on this distribution.

 

Gary