03/27/2012

Happy Birthday Everette Enno (DHS ’76): Williston, ND

 
Luella Halvorson Dion (’47) is home
Message from Floyd Dion (’45): Dunseith, ND.
 

Gary

Luella got home Friday,Mar.23rd from the Bottineau Good Samaritan Home.

She is doing good, but cannot put weight on her leg for three months, so that means a wheelchair until she can put weight on her leg.

She had very good care at Good Sam.and the staff was outstanding. The meals were very good , I ate all my meals there except breakfast and a noon meal as we were making a ramp for the wheelchair to go into and out of the house.

Floyd
 
 
 
Phyllis (’65) and Patsy (’59) McKay
Pictures posted by Phyllis McKay: Auburn, WA.
 
Gary,
Attached are some pictures from the cruise. I have some more that I will send later.
Phyllis
Phyllis, These are great pictures of both you and Patsy. You both look so nice. The ones of you with the dolphin are awesome. Gary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lois Tweten, Emma Kofoid & Neola Kofoid Garbe
Picture posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND
Hi Gary/Others,
 
I’m sure you remember Lois Tweten and her cousin, Carol, visited with Mom and me at Good Samaritan in 2010–wonderful couple of hours! I’m sure you also remember Lois’ family and our family were neighbors in the north end of Bottineau in the 1940’s–before her dad was killed. When Lois sent her 2010 Christmas letter, she included this picture. (Thanks, Lois.)
 
If my memory is correct, Lois also visited with Ruth Peterson, Floyd and Luella Dion (Norma, I think you were visiting your mom that day, too.) and others–were Ann and Harold Rosenau there? I know they visited Ruth often. I was rather excited that day, so I could be wrong about some of this. All this took place in the dining room at Good Sam. Again, that was a day I would NEVER have ever expected to happen. God is good!
 
Mom was 93 years old in this picture
 
Neola
Thank you so much Neola for sharing this lovely picture. After having so much communication with Lois, we can now see who she is. Lois lives in Helena, MT. Bev Morinville introduced Lois to us several years before her passing in December 2009. Bev was such a spark and inspiration with all of her contributions. We miss her dearly. Gary
 
 
 
 
Wolf family Photo
Reply from Margaret Metcalfe Leonard (’65): Rolette, ND
 
Hi Gary,
I pulled the picture up on my computer and I recognize Rita and Pius Wolf’s’ family. I taught with Pius in Belcourt in the 70’s
I recognize their daughter Kelly and her son and I think her husband, Ivan Bercier is behind her, and the groom is their son
David, but I don’t know the bride.
 
Kelly Wolf’s husband,Ivan Bercier, Rita,. Pius, I think this is another son and daughter in back
Then their daughter Kelly and her son, the bride and David Wolf in front
 
I never had the younger kids for students so I don’t remember their names. Rita worked in the Golden Rule for many years for Ronnie
Hasen and they moved to Rolla in the later 70’s. They lived in the “Teacher Housing” in Belcourt when I taught with Pius. He was a football
coach for Belcourt when Chuck coached football in Rolla…we were very good friends. I have many good memories of those wonderful years!
 
Margaret Leonard
 
 
 

Wolf family Photo

Reply from Rob Olson (’79): Walla Walla, WA.

Dave Wolf is the groom, his wife Deena, back center is Pious Wolf and to his right is his wife, Rita I think. This photo was taken in Rolla at Dave and Deena’s wedding in 1982 or 83. Dave was a teammate of mine with the Rolla Legion, Rolla NoDaks and at Mayville State baseball teams.

Rob Olson

 
 
Back: Ivan Bercier, Rita Wolf, Pius Wolf, ?? Wolf, ??.
Front: Kelly Wolf Bercier, Deena Wolf, Dave Wolf
 
 
Email address change
For Sybil Johnson: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
 
To everyone,
I have had to change my main email address, because of hackers. You can now get in touch with me at:
I will be closing this account
down, this week. I sure enjoy this blog. It has kept me in touch with everyone that knew Axel Johnson and his family. Thank you, so much.

Sybil

 
 
Joke of the day
Posted by Larry Hackman (’66): Bismarck, ND
 

Love The Irish

 

Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn’t find a parking place. Looking up to heaven he said, ‘Lord take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give up me Irish Whiskey!’

Miraculously, a parking place appeared.

Paddy looked up again and said, ‘Never mind, I found one.’

 

Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal, and asks the first man he meets, ‘Do you want to go to heaven?’

The man said, ‘I do, Father.’

The priest said, ‘Then stand over there against the wall.’

Then the priest asked the second man, ‘Do you want to go to heaven?’

‘Certainly, Father,’ the man replied

‘Then stand over there against the wall,’ said the priest.

Then Father Murphy walked up to O’Toole and asked, ‘Do you want to go to heaven?’

O’Toole said, ‘No, I don’t Father.’

The priest said, ‘I don’t believe this. You mean to tell me that when you die you don’t want to go to heaven?’

O’Toole said, ‘Oh, when I die , yes. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now.’

 

Paddy was in New York .

He was patiently waiting and watching the traffic cop on a busy street crossing. The cop stopped the flow of traffic and shouted, ‘Okay, pedestrians.’ Then he’d allow the traffic to pass.

He’d done this several times, and Paddy still stood on the sidewalk.

After the cop had shouted, ‘Pedestrians!’ for the tenth time, Paddy went over to him and said, ‘Is it not about time ye let the Catholics across?’

 

Gallagher opened the morning newspaper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died. He quickly phoned his best friend, Finney.

‘Did you see the paper?’ asked Gallagher. ‘They say I died!!’

‘Yes, I saw it!’ replied Finney. ‘Where are ye callin’ from?’

 

 

An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut . The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest’s breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.

He says, ‘Sir, have you been drinking?’

‘Just water,’ says the priest.

The trooper says, ‘Then why do I smell wine?’

The priest looks at the bottle and says, ‘Good Lord! He’s done it again!’

 

Walking into the bar, Mike said to Charlie the bartender, ‘Pour me a stiff one – just had another fight with the little woman.’

‘Oh yeah?’ said Charlie, ‘And how did this one end?’

‘When it was over,’ Mike replied, ‘She came to me on her hands and knees.’

‘Really,’ said Charles, ‘Now that’s a switch! What did she say?’

She said, ‘Come out from under the bed, you little chicken.’

 

Patton staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddy, Paddy. He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Kathleen.

He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step. As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump. A whiskey bottle in each back pocket broke and made the landing especially painful.

Managing not to yell, Patton sprung up, pulled down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see that his butt cheeks were cut and bleeding. He managed to quietly find a full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he could on each place he saw blood.

He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed..

In the morning, Patton woke up with searing pain in both his head and butt and Kathleen staring at him from across the room.

She said, ‘You were drunk again last night weren’t you?’

Patton said, ‘Why you say such a mean thing?’

‘Well,’ Kathleen said, ‘it could be the open front door, it could be the broken glass at the bottom of the stairs, it could be the drops of blood trailing through the house, it could be your bloodshot eyes, but mostly ……. it’s all those Band-Aids stuck on the hall mirror.