Provided by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND
Roland Mongeon, age 98 of Dunseith, died Tuesday at a Rugby hospital. Funeral will be held on Saturday at 10:00 am at the St. Michael the Arc Angel Catholic Church in Dunseith. Visitation will be on Friday beginning at 5:00 pm with prayer service at 7:00 pm at the church in Dunseith. Roland Mongeon, a son of Pierre and Anna (Grenier) Mongeon, was born on September 1, 1912 in Maryville Township near Thorne, ND. At a very young age, he moved with his parents to Shell Valley Township. He attended school in Shell Valley and later the Notre Dame Academy in Willow City. He lived and worked on his parent’s farm until 1937, when he married Cora Boucher at Thorne. They lived on a farm Northeast of Bottineau until 1944 when they moved to Dunseith. In 1945, they bought a farm South of Dunseith and moved there in 1946. Cora passed away in January of 1966. On August 8, 1970, he married Nora Trembley in Waybury, SK, Canada. They made their home on the farm until moving into Dunseith in 1987.
He is survived by his wife, Nora of Dunseith, step daughter, Joan Johnson of Dunseith; brothers, Armand Mongeon of Dunseith, Alfred (June) Mongeon of Rolette and Dennis (Carol) Mongeon of Mandan; sister, Sister Stephanie Mongeon of Ogden, UT; grandson, Joshua (Melissa) Johnson of Bismarck and numerous nieces, nephews and several step children.
In addition to his parents and wife, Cora, he was preceded in death by his siblings, Leo, Adrian and Eugene Mongeon, Janet Evans, Lorena Trimble and an infant brother and sister.
Joan Tremblay Johnson (79), Our condolences are with you, your mother and all of Roland’s family with his passing. I know that you have taken time out of your life to return home to live with your Parents (your mother and Roland) in their senior years. You are a wonderful person.
Note: At our next reunion please come up and poke me in the ribs so we can meet face to face. There were so many I missed seeing at this last reunion in May. Martha Lamb, you are another. There were too many folks to be able see all in one setting.
Question Joan, Your name is spelled Tremblay in the Dunseith book and Trembley in this Obituary. Which is correct?
Roland Mongeon’s passing.
Message Sharron Gottbreht Shen (59): Everett, WA.
Salute Gary,
The message for the Dailly-Kester families was in process when George called. Our Uncle Roland Mongeon, age 98, died this afternoon. Evie and I saw him a number of times during the week in Dunseith for the DeAnn and Patrick O’Hara wedding celebration. Uncle Roland will always remain a huge part of my life; always an influence for good in our family and in all of Rolette County. Evie reserved take out so Roland and Nora enjoyed the ecellent turkey dinner provided by the members of Peace Lutheran last weekend. Uncle said we would all meet again. His lips to God’s ear. Amen.
Sharron
Message for the Dailly-Kester families
From Sharron
Thank you Gary, for posting the obituary of Duaine Dailly. Again we are diminished and bereft by the loss of a childhood companion. I extend to the families of Ernest and Lucille Dailly and to that of Ormal and Margery Kester my deepest sympathy. Lowell Leonard reminded me not too long ago of our frequent visits to the Daily home to trade comic books. I never pass the former Daily home and not recall those good times.
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe Duaine was in Dunseith last August 2009 for a family reunion at the Elmer and Joann Boucher family home. Brother Ernie called me and said you will not believe who just walked into Dales, the Daily clan. I was just outside Rugby city limits and had the option of returning to Dunseith, but continued on to Holaand House and Rugby Assisted living. I found the Hunter girls, Margery Kester and Lucille Daily visiting together and joined them for lunch while we waited for Ernestine. Mick and Janice Lacroix Kester arrived and then Ernestine. We had only the briefest visit but it was a joy to see “Tina” after so many, at least 50, years. From Lucille I discovered that she worked at San Haven during the same time as Alma, my Mom. Ernestine looked amazing and I without a camera.
I cannot recall every name of the catechism class picnic to Butte St Paul. Emy Picard provided our transportation and I think Duaine Dailly is standing next to him. Skip two and perhaps we have Jimmy McCoy, they Ernestine Dailly with Sharron on her left. I think I see Linda Evans behind Ernestine and Connie Bedard on Sister Bernard’s right. Sister Agnes who despaired of my piano skills is also there.
The second picture is of Mick Kester, Margery and Janice taken at Dales 2004. And the third picture is a clutch of companions who were celebrating the 4th birthday of George Gottbreht, 1947. Lt to Rt: Joey Link, George G, maybe Lowell Leonard, Ron Link holding Ernie Gottbreht in place [18 mos old], Mick Kester, Nick Bedard and Gilmore Lake.
I should know every girl on the park picture with Margery Kester – one is certainly Coleen Conroy. Margery must be their mentor for some formative rite of passage.
Sharron, I will send a personal copy of today’s blog to Toby Dailly, Ernest and Lucille’s son. He lives in Bremerton. I will ask him to share this with his family members and especially his mother, Lucille. Bob (57) and Arline (55) Lamoureux Dailly’s email is down at the moment.
We need some help with identifying those in this photo
Butte St Paul. Emy Picard provided our transportation and I think Duaine Dailly is standing next to him.
Mick Kester, Margery and Janice taken at Dales 2004
Joey Link, George G, maybe Lowell Leonard, Ron Link holding Ernie Gottbreht in place [18 mos old], Mick Kester, Nick Bedard and Gilmore Lake
We need some help identifing these folks.
Margery Kester – one is certainly Coleen Conroy. Margery must be their mentor for some formative rite of passage.
Above picture croped
Typhoon Juan
Question from Keith Pladson (66): Stafford, VA
Gary,
Hope this input finds you and your family all right. This morning on the weather channel it said that the winds of this latest super typhoon were over 185 mph when it came ashore on the island of Luzon. By comparison, that would make it a very, very powerful category 5 hurricane (using the scale they use for hurricanes, I believe category 5s start at 155 mph). Given that Katrina had lost much of it’s wind speed when it came ashore as a category 4 and all the damage it caused to the Mississippi and Louisiana coast line, it can’t help but wonder how much damage this storm caused to the Philippines. More importantly, I hope not too many lost family members to the storm.
It seems that no matter where we live around the globe, different kinds of bad weather can effect us from time to time.
Again, I hope all is well with you and yours.
Keith Pladson (66)
Keith, Typhoon Juan pretty much missed us entirely. We had a few really heavy rain showers from the affects of Typhoon Juan and that was about all. Manila is on the Island of Luzon. We live on the Island of Cebu, about 400 miles south of Manila as shown on the map below. This map makes all the land area of the Philippines appear to be connected, but it is not. There are over 7,000 Islands in the PI with about 720 habitant. Most all of the storms that hit the PI pass to the north of us. Our average annual rain fall is about 50″ compared to Manila with about 90″. Our temperature is pretty constant year around too with the day time highs around 90 with the lows in the 80’s. Manila’s seasonal highs and lows very about 15 to 20 degrees. We are about 400 miles north of the equator, so our daylight hours only very about an hour (half hour on each end) from Dec. to Jun. We have been living here 7 years now. Gary
