11/06/2010

Death in Esther Murray Fleming’s Family
From Esther Murray Fleming (65): Flint, MI

Hi Gary.

 

Just a small note to ask for all of your prayers. We lost a family member last night. Kody Brotemarkle. He was my great nephew. He was 19 years of age. He was killed by a semi-truck driver and was on his way home from work. He lived in Indiana.

 

This is going to be a sad week for the family. I can’t talk anymore without tearing up. Thank you.

 

Love and God speed to all.

Esther

Esther, how terrible. Mark was such a young man too. Is your relationship to Mark on your side or your Husband’s side of the family? Our condolences are with you and your family with this tragedy. Gary

Collision with truck kills Noble driver

A Wawaka teenager was killed Thursday night when his car was hit by a tractor-trailer rig in Noble County, according to Indiana State Police.

Kody W. Brotemarkle, 19, died at the scene of the crash, reported at 9:50 p.m. on U.S. 6 between County Road 300 E. and County Road 400 E., police said.

Brotemarkle’s 1997 Dodge Intrepid collided with a 1998 Freightliner rig, driven by Mark W. Rhodes, 46, of Barberton, Ohio, according to police.

Brotemarkle was going west on U.S. when his car went left of center and collided with the tractor-trailer rig, police said.

Brotemarkle was ejected from his car. Rhodes was wearing a seat belt and was not injured.

The Indiana State Police were assisted at the scene by the Noble County Sheriff’s Department, Noble County Coroner’s Office, Noble County EMS, Orange Township Fire Department and Rome City Police Department.

 

 

 

Bowling story

From Aggie Casavant (69): Fort Mill, SC

 

Hi Gary,and Bernadette, Beings you and Bernadette are bowlers,I have to share this bowling story with you and the bloggers. After graduating from high school I moved out to Denver Colorado,with my oldest sister Bernadette,and husband Frank Boucher. My first year out there I joined the bowling league that they belong to. Because they already had there team, I played opposite them, with Vern, one of Franks co-workers and his wife Irene, and George another one of Franks co-workers,and I. It was made up of 32 teams. Anyway it just so happened that my sister Bernedette’s team, and my team ended up playing against each other for the seasonal championship.(I mean like 1st Place) Because Bernadette was the league President, all of the trophies were sent to her house til championship nite.Well it just so happened that I had not got a place of my own yet so her home was still my home at the time. So anyway in the mean time Bernadette took out all the trophies and had them on display on this big dining room table in her dining room. Well championship night rolled around and we were down to our last game, Bernadettes team had rolled their last frame,and in order for us to beat them (poor Irene had to get 2spares and a strike) Well she got the two spares, and when she went up for the strike you could of heard a pin drop in that whole bowling alley. She went up threw the ball, all looked well then the foul alarm with red lights went off before the ball hit the pins and she got a strike. Everyone looked stunned, and as we looked at the foul line,we saw this little prissy, pink and white hanky,laying on the foul line. Irene always kept a little hanky tucked in her belt. Well needless to say the whole place went crazy. Bernadettes team assumed it was a foul and they won. And I was tryingto explain the best I could at the age of 18,that it had to be your physical body going across the line to be considered a foul. Anyway to make a long story longer, we had to write to the International Bowling Congress to settle the score. Because that was long before e-mails we had to wait for a response by snail mail.Which took like 2 weeks. The I.B.C. ruled in my teams favor…that a part of your physical body had to go across the line. Needless to say, it was a long two weeks walking past that dining room table with the four Championship trophies on it,and even a couple longer weeks after they were not there anymore……If you know what I mean…LoL. Well hope you all have a blest day…Aggie

Aggie, That is a great story. I’m hoping all is well now though. It’s great hearing from you again too. We missed you. You have a way of spicing things up a bit of which we look forward too. Gary


 
Larry Hackman’s Jr. Garage
Pictures from Larry Hackman Sr. (66): Bismarck, ND
 
We finished construction of the boys (Larry Jr.) garage. It took us 13 days over a two month period.
He has some landscaping and grass to seed .
Larry
Larry, This is a beautiful three car Garage. 13 days, you guys are fast. Gary

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
Take Me Back To The Sixties
Posted by LeaRae Parrill (67): Bottineau, ND

Gary, I don’t necessarily want you to put on the blog, just thought you might enjoy the music.

LeaRae,This is great and something a whole lot of our readers will enjoy and it runs in the back ground. Gary

Take Me Back To The Sixties

http://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm