Gary Stokes’ CommentsThank you so much for this reminder. My check will be in the mail tomorrow.Folks, Please contribute to a cemetery of your loved ones. I have listed the points of contacts for the local Dunseith cemeteries below. I had the pleasure of attending the Ackworth Cemetery Association annual meeting last year. The locals are most certainly donating a lot of their time and labor to keep Ackworth and all the other cemeteries looking nice. Most importantly they need money to keep the cemeteries mowed. To keep in budget, the Lagerquist boys agreed to take a reduction in payment to keep Ackworth mowed and trimmed of which they are doing a mighty fine job of doing. We can not expect them and the locals of the other cemeteries to donate their gas, equipment and time to keep these cemeteries looking nice. It’s always such a great feeling in my sole to see Ackworth and all the local cemeteries looking so nice with each of my visits to the area.
May 28, 2011
In North Dakota, rural cemeteries solely rely on family and community members for their upkeep. One or more of the people buried at the Ackworth Cemetery is a member of your family that once lived in the nearby countryside. After more than 100 years, many of those loved ones in Ackworth Cemetery have relatives and descendants that are spread far and wide.
Cemeteries serve the living, as well as the dead, as places to visit and reflect on loved ones. You may choose to remember your loved ones by looking at photos or recalling a funny story rather than visiting the graves, but we urge you to outwardly honor their memory by helping us maintain their burial place. Support those locally who donate their time to mow the grass, put up flags, repair the fence and paint by making a financial contribution. Any contribution – large or small – would be welcome as funds are lacking. If you know of others that would be willing to contribute for upkeep, please let them know all donations can be sent to:
Martin Peterson
10379 – 35 Avenue NE
Dunseith ND 58329
A cemetery in poor condition dishonors those buried there. Maintaining them with care is in everyone’s interest. The annual maintenance and repair day at the Ackworth Cemetery has been set for 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Please join us – physically or financially!
Sincerely,
Martin Peterson
Ackworth Cemetery Treasurer
PS If you placed artificial flowers on the gravesites for Memorial Day, please have them
removed by June 11.
A couple guesses on Wally’s class picture. LD Hiatt you named. I
think the kid next to him is Charlie Carbonneau. I think the guy on the
other end of the 1st row is Vernon Haakenson and next to him is Dennis
‘Hawkeye’ Haakenson. Next to him is probably Donnie Kittleson. The
only gal I think I recognize is the one in the middle row wearing a dark
dress. I think she is Marylin Anderson now. She is married to Lorenzo
Anderson but I don’t remember her maiden name. As I said these are all
wild guesses based on family traits. I recognize some of the others but
can’t put names on them right now. It would be fun to know if I am
right at all?
Dick
OK folks, I know there are enough of you Bottineau folks out there and others too, that can put names on these folks. Collectively we can identify all these folks.Dick, I think you are right with a few of these folks. Other than for LD Hiatt, the only one I am pretty sure I recognize is Donald Haakenson. Donald is Dennis’ (Hawkeye’s) brother. Donald passed away in 1994. The one that you are thinking could be Vernon Haakenson I am not sure of. Vernon is also Hawkeye’s brother. Because of his age, I’m thinking this is not Vernon. Vernon was born 1935 and passed on in 1999.
