Hotel and Transportion details in Miami
Hotel: Hyatt Summerfield Suites in Miami
Folks,
Gina, our travel agent, has arranged for us to stay at the HyattSummerfield Suitesin Miami. She has blocked off 45 one Bedroom Suites and 5 two bedroom Suites. The Hyatt has free shuttle service from the Airport.
Rates plus 13% tax
One Bedroom Suites at $159.00 (king)
Two Bedroom Suites at $209.00 (king bed in each bedroom)
The living room has a sectional pullout Sofa bed in all Suites.
**5th and 6th persons in 2-Bedroom suites are $10.00 additional per person.
For reservations please call the Hyatt at (800) 517-3966 or log on to their website www.hyattsummerfieldsuitesmiami.comand enter into the Corporate/Group box G-CAWi.When booking tell them you are with the Cruise At Will Dunseith group.
Payment is due at time of booking. Refunds are available for cancellations no later than January 12, 2012.
Gina has made arrangements with the Hyatt for our group room rates to be exactly the same rate for up to 3 days prior and 3 days after our cruise.
Transportation from the hotel to the ship and to the airport upon return
Ground transportation is available for $24 round trip – per passenger (includes: your hotel to your ship and your ship back to the Miami airport).
Names and the payment for your Ground transportation will need to be provided to Cruise At Will prior to November 18, 2011
If you wish to confirm your ground transportation, please send a note with your name(s) and a check payable to Cruise At Will to:
Cruise At Will
15847 Bobolink Dr
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WoodbridgeVA22191
Yes, I remember the play, but not too much about it. Just being nervous and standing in the back waiting for our time to go on. It was short and sweet.
I remember doing a little skit about my brother Julian and sister Lorraine. When there was a bowl of flour and my face was pushed in it and I said “Mom look what Julian did”. We must have been told to remember something funny about our siblings, in this case Julian. I also remember Mr. Grossman being a wonderful teacher. He had a mishap with a young man at school.
Al and I watch our 4 month old granddaughter, Rosalinda, her sister Catalina (5), and her older brother Darius (11) after school.
All of us who are blessed with grandchildren know how special they are and what a treat to watch them. We will not be doing daycare when school is out this summer. Our daughter Anita, who is a teacher at a Catholic school will fill in. And if its God’s plan for us, Al and I and my health is good we will probably do so in the fall.
This summer I want to visit Lorraine in Sioux Falls, Marlene at Flandreau, Vince, Natalie and Janet in Fargo.
I hope to visit alll of my siblings, Rod, Julian and Louella.
Cancer is a strange disease. You have your good day and not so good day. But I can’t complain. I have been very blessed and alot to be thankful for.
As I said, we watch some of our grandchildren during the day. We get to 12:10 mass or 5:15 almost daily.
Our grandchildren are all in close proximity and are very active in different sports. We hardly have a free night and love it that way.
Thanks again Gary for all you do to keep the communications going.
God Bless
Barbara Kalk Lopez
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John Aitchison
(DHS 46)
 John Aitchison, age 83 of Bottineau, died Thursday at a Bottineau nursing home. His funeral will be held on Monday at 10:00 A.M. in the Metigoshe Christian Center at Lake Metigoshe. Visitation will be held on Sunday from 1:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M. at Nero Funeral Home in Bottineau. Burial will be at the Salem Cemetery near Bottineau. John Aitchison, a son of George and Lula (Howery) Aitchison, was born on August 18, 1927, at Antler, ND. He was reared in Dunseith and later graduated from Dunseith High School. On October 27, 1949, he married Thelma Nickelson at Dunseith. They moved to Minot and John worked as a delivery man for Bridgeman Creamery. He also worked part-time at Frank’s Service Station in Minot for a time. He retired from the creamery in 1991. Thelma passed away on January 7, 2000. Later that year, John moved to Lake Metigoshe. In October of 2010, he moved into Manorcare in Minot and on April 1, 2011 he moved into the Bottineau Good Samaritan Center. John was a member of the Christ Lutheran Church in Minot where he was active in the Men’s Club. He later was a member of the Lake Metigoshe Lutheran Church. He enjoyed woodworking and gardening. He loved spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He is survived by his daughter, Linda Sisk of Westhope and son, Ken Aitchison and his wife, Marlene of Sheyenne, WY; 6 grandchildren; 5 great grandchildren and one sister; Donna Richard of Havre, MT. Arrangements were with Nero Funeral Home in Bottineau. Friends may sign the online register book at www.nerofuneralhome.net. |
Email address change
For Art Hagen (72): Bottineau, ND
Gary would you change my email
Audrey, I have always known you have a Diary. I didn’t realize it was so big and that you have it all typed out. Is this something you have posted on line? How well I know your typing skills too. I remember all the typing my mother asked you to do for so many of our 4-H projects.
Henry Dietrich
The recent stories of the San Haven reminded me and my brother Henry Hackman (class of 65) of a family story concerning the family of our great uncle, Henry Dietrich.Henry married Myrtle Albertson in 1930, the ex-wife of Frank Graybill of the Dion Lake area of the Turtle Mountains.Myrtle had nine children from the previous marriage to Frank Graybill.Two of the younger girls Blanch (Graybill) Merrick, 1905-1937, and Doris (Graybill) Feldner, 1911-1936, worked at the San Haven, and lived on the Dietrich farm, 10 miles north of Dunseith.They both contracted tuberculosis and died and were buried at Riverside Cemetery south of Dunseith.Henry and Myrtle raised their children Georgia Merrick and Buster Graybill.Blanch’s and Doris’s younger sister Thelma who was 13 at the time also contracted the disease, probably from her older sisters, died in 1937 and is also buried at Riverside Cemetery, Dunseith, North Dakota.
Henry tried everything to save his stepdaughter, Thelma.He took her to doctor after doctor and tried everything they had to offer to save her.He even went to see an Indian Medicine Man who lived near Belcourt, ND.Henry had, had a previous encounter with this man and knew that he could cure certain ailments.
Henry always smoked a pipe, one with a stem that curved down about three inches from his mouth and held the pipe bowl, directly out from his chin.I suppose the idea was to keep the smoke away from your eyes.The down side of this type of pipe was that heat travels up, and the hot stem and the smoke eventually caused a sore to develop on his lip.The sore on his lip would not go away.He went to doctor after doctor and they would give him different salves and ointments to try but, nothing worked.Henry had heard of this Indian Medicine Man that lived over by Belcourt, ND.Henry’s lip was not getting better, and he was sure it was cancer.He decided to go over to Belcourt and see this Medicine Man and to see what and if the man could do anything for him.Henry went to the house and was invited in and too sit down at the table.He told the Medicine Man his problem and showed him the sore.The Medicine Man left the house and did not return for a couple of hours.Henry sat at the table patiently waiting.The woman of the house was busy making something on the wood stove.Finally she set the pot of stew on the table, and also setting a plate in front of Henry, invited him to eat.He said it smelled delicious and took the ladle to place some stew into his plate.She watched him as he placed the stew into his plate and invited him to dig deep into the kettle.She said, “Dig deep, nice fat puppy on bottom”.Henry said the stew was good but he didn’t eat as much as he would have liked too.The Medicine Man eventually returned to the house with a paste he had made from plants and leaves and ????, that he said he had gathered from the woods.Henry used the paste on the sore on his lip and the sore healed.Henry was impressed with this man and always said that if he had been smart enough at the time, he and this Medicine Man, both could of became rich.Henry was sure, that he had cancer on his lip, and that this Medicine Man had cured it with a paste, that he had made up from materials, he had gathered from the Turtle Mountains, of North Dakota.
So, when the doctors and medicines they prescribed did not do any good to help Thelma.Henry became desperate.He once again drove to Belcourt to see the Indian Medicine Man.The Indian Medicine man told him that she must eat of the heart and liver of a dog.Henry returned home and told his wife Myrtle what the Medicine Man had said, and what he had to do.Henry had a large farm dog at the time that he loved, but nothing can overcome the love, a father has for his daughter.Henry and Myrtle made the liver and the heart of the dog as suggested by the Medicine Man and fed it to their daughter, Thelma.Thelma died from tuberculosis in the year of 1937.
In 1960 Henry Hackman (class of 65) while staying up in the Hills with Henry Dietrich saw this hide hanging on the wall inside the garage.Henry H. asked Henry Dietrich about the hide.Henry Dietrich told Henry the story about his daughter and how he had to kill the farm dog.That he also loved the dog, and so he skinned the dog and tanned the hide to keep as a reminder of the love that they and the dog all had for each other and what they had to go through to try and save Thelma.The name on her grave marker at Riverside cemetery is Thelma Dietrich.
Folks, I forwarded Message 537 with a message to Glenore with the Larson Photo below. I have posted her reply.Glenore is the Daughter of Ledolph and Edna Larson and a sister to Doreen Moran. Glenore and her husband Richard are currently living on their home place several miles south of Lake Metigoshe on the Lake Road. I know many of you remember and know the Ledolph Larson family.
An interesting note is that Richard (my husband) is related to the Hosmer’s 6 generations back – so it was interesting to learn of the Larson/Hosmer connection through Norman’s marriage. It’s hard to keep all the connections in mind! Glenore
Previously posted with message 537 on 8/25/09Message/Pictures from Cheryl Larson Dakin (71): BEDFORD, TXHi GaryIn reply to Audrey Hanson Aitchison, I am enclosing a photo of Kjersten and her sons (in the back row Martin, Hans Peter, Lars and Adrien. Kjersten is in front with her daughter Petrina) This was taken on Kjersten’s 90th birthday. The other picture is of Martin Larson and his sons. My grandpa Mensvil is on the far left. I’ll have to call Dad to get the names of the other boys. And to Bev and Jean…I’m still working on peaches I brought back from North Dakota last week so between catching up with grandchildren and fixing peach preserves, I haven’t had a chance to put together the other Larson information I promised. But I will get it to you soon.Cheryl Larson DakinBack: Martin, Lars, Hans Peder, Lars and Adrien Larson
Front: Kjersten with her daughter Petrina
Cheryl
My condolences to the Atchison family. We have a connection with them as well since my Aunt Donna Richard (married to my mom’s late brother Gerald) is Johnny’s sister, and the Hansons are cousins of my Dad. Beverly Morinville Azure was my lifelong friend and we never realized we were cousins until well into our adulthood.
Cheryl Larson Dakin ’71