05/09/2009 | Dunseith Alumni

Reqest from Denise Lajimodiere:

Gary,

I’m writing an article on what folks did during the depression to survive, or did or still do to be thrifty: Example – save old coats to make quilts, save buttons in cigar boxes, save the tissue that fruit came wrapped in. Can you put this out to the wonderful folks on this blog to see what memories we all have?
Thank you!
Denise Lajimodiere

Denise, It’s great hearing from you. Other than for your email address, I do not have any your contact info recorded in my records. If I remember correctly you are living in the Grand Forks area? I think you are a PHD professor at UND? Did I remember all this correctly? If I didn’t, then it’s a close friend of yours that I have in mind. Gary

Correction from Debbie Poitra Rondeau (77): Dunseith, ND

Hi Gary

I have to correct myself I was looking at the April calendar when I wrote the date wrong for Clifford George Counts he passed away on May 6, 2009. Not May 8, 2009 Sorry Everyone

Reply from Bonnie Awalt Houle (56): Becker, MN

Dear Gary,

Your e-mails came through just fine. Thank You. Also really enjoyed our visit on the telephone today. Hope some day to have the opportunity to meet you.

Sincerely

Bonnie Awalt Houle (56)

Folks, Bonnie was having a problem not receiving these daily messages, so I called her. We truly had a wonderful visit. Bernadette left shortly after I called Bonnie and came back about an hour later surprised that Bonnie and I were still talking. That hour just evaporated. Bonnie told me that they are having a family reunion with just the Awalt Siblings the first week of June. They will be having this reunion in Lincoln, NE. That is where Bill Awalt lives. Bonnie and the rest of you, We’d love to see some pictures following this reunion.

The Awalt Family

Awalt	Lloyd	1025 Main St	Bottineau, ND 58318	(701) 228-3268	lata@min.midco.net	44
Awalt Stickland	Eleanor	1 Longview RD W	Bottineau, ND 58318	(701) 263-3366	lenlnor2@srt.com	47
Awalt	Marshall	369 Danny Garner Rd	Newport, NC 28570-6725		mandj@ec.rr.com	51
Awalt Jolliffe	Emma Jean Gary	2452 E Morelos St	Chandler, AZ 85225	(480) 792-9221		54
Awalt Houle	Bonnie	16809 127th St Se	Becker, MN 55308	(763) 262-3534	houle@izoom.net	56
Awalt	Bill	1331 Silver Ridge Rd	Lincoln, NE 68510	(402) 327-9403	Wdawalt@webtv.net	61
Awalt	John	11433 Quinn St NW	Minneapolis, MN 55433-3636	(763) 755-5691C612-812-6289	gerriawalt@mac.com	65

Reply form Larry St. Claire (66): Anchorage, AK.

Hi, it’s Larry StClaire in Anchorage Alaska. The picture of the 2 little girls are my nieces, Tracey and Robin, who are my sister Renee’s daughters.

Larry, Where do Tracey & Robin live today? Neola would love some contact info for them and also Renee. Thanks, Gary

Tracey & Robin St. Clair

Question from Ivy Eller Robert (74): Everett, WA.

Hi Gary….
I thought I knew all of the cemeteries around the Dunseith area, but where is the Ackworth Cemetery? I don’t recall knowing about that one!

Thanks…..
Ivy Robert

P.S. The Roy Family is from the St. John area! : )

Ive, The Ackworth Cemetery is located 17 miles NW of Dunseith. To be exact, it is located on the Willow Lake road 1 1/8 miles north of Highway 43. I was born and raised across the road from the Ackworth Cemetery. We now have a complete up-to-date list of all those buried in Ackworth posted on the Dunseith Alumni WEB site.http://garystokes.net/default.aspx Gary

Ackworth Cemetery taken from the Stokes farm yard. Dan Pladson’s buildings are in the back.

My Great Grandfather

William Stokes, donated one acre of land to the Ackworth community for

this cemetery in the early nineteen hundred’s.

This is the Willow lake road looking south from the Ackworth Cemetery. Highway 43 is one mile

south.

The Ackworth school was originally located 1/2 mile east from the intersection. In about

1981

the school was moved to just behind the trees on the left. That is where the Ackworth Post

Office was located.

Properties in the photo: (1) Stokes’ to the left before the intersection, (2) Original Stokes place now

owned by Danny Pladson to the right before the intersection, (3) Albert Hiatt’s property, not sure

who owns it now, to the left on the other side of the intersection. I think the Lagerquist’s probably

own Albert’s now. (4) Clarence Hagen’s property to the right just beyond the intersection.

Note: Evon Lagerquist lives 3/4 mile south from this intersection. She lives on the Robert Pritchard

Farm.

This is the Willow Lake road looking North from the Ackworth Cemetery. I’ll bet this looks

pretty familiar to all you Fauske folks? Your farm, located on the original John Hiatt farm,

is locate one mile north and about a half mile west from this location. Russell and Glenda

Fauske are currently living on your farmstead. This road eventually leads into Canada two

and a half miles to the north.

Note/Picture from Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND

Kenneth Bergman is the son of Otto/Elizabeth Fraser Bergman (Page 10 in Centennial Book)

Marian is the daughter of Gerald/Leah Richard Bergeron (Page 241 in the Centennial Book)

It’s a small world: When Gerald passed away, Leah moved to Bottineau. My apartment is upstairs in the house Leah lived in for many years. Until a couple of years ago, I thought Leah had moved this house to Bottineau. To me, it was “Leah Bergeron’s house”. I’ve learned this house is an Aasheim farmhouse. I think Jean Aasheim Zorn (Leo–Page 287 in the Centennial Book.) said it came from her grandfather’s farm.

Jean’s parents were Joe/Mabel Ihla Aasheim. Joe and my dad worked at Haugerud Garage back in the 1940’s. Oscar Vikan owned it when Dad started working there.

I scanned this picture to send to Gary Berg (son of Alvina/Lillian Torgerson Berg) for his Class of ’59 website. Then I decided to include Gary Stokes, as I think he might be interested in it, too. Next, I added more info and decided to include some of my relatives, as Ed Kofoid, son of
Fred/Wilma Bosch Kofoid, is married to Leo/Jean’s daughter, Nancy. There is no end to the connections!

Lynne Bergman Boettcher, Kenneth’s sister, is my classmate, so I’m including the Class of ’57 in this email, too!

Neola

With Marian’s mother, Leah, being a Richard, she is related to a whole bunch of you folks.

Ron Bergman (Bottineau Sears Store), I Believe Ken is your brother. The Bergman family is a large family too. Gary