Gary,

In the first picture, I am trying to get some identification on the three girls on the right.  What I do know is as follows:  L-R Back Row: Shirley, Lorraine and Lois Pritchard (my sisters).  Center Row:  Darold Pritchard (my oldest bother), Patsy Smith (Doris Smith Pritchard’s sister) and (?).  Front Row: John Pritchard (my next older brother), Dale Pritchard, (?) and (?).  I believe the picture was taken “around” 1950 judging by own size. 

In the second picture, the same three girls are located #5, 6 and 7 from the left.  Again, the line up is Dale, Darold, Lois and John Pritchard, ?, ? and ?, and Patsy Smith.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Dale Pritchard  

Back: Shirely, Lorraine & Lois Pritchard

Center: Darold Pritchard, Patsy Smith and ?

Front: John Pritchard, Dale Pritchard, ? and ?

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Dale, Darold, Lois and John Pritchard, ?, ? and ?, and Patsy Smith.

Larry,

In the process of pasting pictures preparing yesterday’s blog, your pictures got replaced with that newspaper article. It is not something I do, it just happens. Most of the time I catch these errors, but yesterday I didn’t catch this error until I was posting the blog in our website.

So sorry for this error Larry.

Gary 

I knew Wayne when I lived in Bremerton. I used to see him often when he worked at Lowe’s hardware store. Wayne and I had lots of nice chats with my many visits to Lowe’s. He was always very friendly and very helpful too.

Wayne’s mother, Beatrice, was a sister to Ernest Dailly. She too is such a nice friendly gal.  She lives in the Oak Manor apartments in Bottineau.

Wayne wife’s (Joan Bergman Johnson) parents were Harold and Margaret Bergman, another nice family.

We extend our condolences to Joan, Beatrice and all of Wayne’s family with his passing. He will be missed.

Gary

Wayne Nilen Johnson

of Bremerton, WA

July 12, 1940

to March 12, 2014

Wayne Nilen Johnson was born in Bottineau, N.D. to Joseph and Beatrice Johnson. He was the oldest of eight children. He graduated from Bottineau High School, and then received his business certificate from college.

Wayne married Joan Bergman in September 1961. They moved to Bismarck, N.D. to start their new life together. While in Bismarck, N.D., they had two sons: Kirk and Craig. In November 1968, they ventured out West to Bremerton, Wash., where Wayne started his new job at the Kitsap Sun newspaper as credit manager, and later as an office manager. In 1989, he started his own excavating business.

Wayne was an active member of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church and enjoyed taking the Eucharist to shut-ins. He developed real friendships with those people. He was a very gregarious, gentle, and caring man with a sense of humor that most enjoyed. He was totally involved in his sons’ lives and was their best friend as they grew up. He coached Kirk’s little league baseball team and was active in Craig’s Boy Scout Group. Wayne enjoyed fishing, golfing, motorcycling, and in later years his golf cart enabled him to join our neighbors, children, and pets on our half-mile road.

Wayne passed away peacefully with his wife by his side. He was preceded in death by his father, Joseph. Wayne is survived by his wife, Joan; mother, Beatrice; sons, Kirk (Melissa) of Tacoma and Craig (Judy) of Gig Harbor; two grandsons, Nicholas and Kyle; seven siblings: Julie (Merle) Kroeplin, Gary (Marsha) Johnson, Patty (Arnie) Kleppe, Ryan (Bev) Johnson, Paul (Sharon) Johnson, Barton (Marina) Johnson, and Cathy (Mark) Brekke; plus five nieces and seven nephews.

There will be a funeral Mass at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church and celebration of life gathering, approximately the first week of May. Online memorial can be seen at www.tuellmckeebremerton.com. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to a charity of your choice in Wayne’s name or to “Disabled American Vets”

From  Ardys Bakken Horner – Former Teacher:

Gary thanks for calling and starting this communication circuit.  a big Hi to my former students  when I taught 8th grade English and 7th
grade home economics.  I think Mrs. Nelson was the main home ec teacher, they just gave me 7th grade to keep me happy.  I wonder how many of you remember the incident of the dead baby rat quite frozen in my top drawer one day  (right after lunch).!!  i never did find out who found that poor little thing and left it for me to “notice” after roll call, i can still remember Dan Morgan chuckling about that one.  Ardys

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From Martha Lamb Schepp (68):

Dear Gary,

My e-mail has been down for some time. I enjoy the correspondence so much. I see back in January where you were asking if I knew about Lynne Abrahamson . I have talked with a couple aunts in the Turtle Mountains and they do not know a Lynne Abrahamson. There are Abrahamsons in the area that we are not related to .

On another note I would like to ask for prayers and concern for my brother Dean Lamb’s daughter, Felicia Marie Lamb. She was seriously hurt in a car accident in the Minneapolis suburb of Glencoe, Minn. on Friday morning. She was in a snowstorm and went into a skid and slid into a larger vehicle on a two lane and ended up rolling her car. Things have been touch and go this weekend but I think it was a better night last night. She has a bleed in her head, broken collar bone, punctured lung from broken ribs, fractured pelvis, she is on the ventilator, Thank goodness for seat belts or we may have lost her. To read about her progress you can go on website:
caringbridge.org/visit/feliciamarielamb Felicia plans to be married in Bottineau in June. Thanks for your concern.

I love the stories that are jogging our minds. Keep up the site. My husband and I are waiting to hear more about the cruise. We have been on one cruise and had a great time. An Alaskan cruise was one thing we were planning to do when we retired but we think it would be fun to go with people from Dunseith. (Retirement is still a ways away).

Martha Lamb Schepp

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Replies from Paul Grossman (70):

Reply:  To Sharon Longie Dana {73}  Paul Grossman {70}     Sharon you surely know what all older 3 grader boys say when  they first see  the new 1 grade girls   and I quote   [ Know there’s  a new girl that needs a teeter- totter ride ]   those were the  days. 

Reply:    To Diane Larson{70}  Paul Grossman {70}    Diane  Your memory is better than mine –  I due remember the barn shaped house and the Fountain’s .   There were alot of  Sisters .    They had a  store  next to the Fountain’s  and Margate would spend alot of time there and that’s how I got to know them.   The hoola hoops were always fun especially  when the boys could beat the girls at there own game.     Sister Pat doing fine- she lives south of Velva ND.

Reply:     To Crystal Fassett Anderson {70}  Paul Grossman {70}    Crystal  Thank You for the SPECIAL  pictures  I will always cherish them-   The  pictures  that you all share  are  most likely the only ones that some of us will ever be blessed to see again.    A  simple Thank You  is not even close enough, my most humble regards  Paul  [70}

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Reply from Erling Landsverk (44):

HI GARY;

YOU ASKED ABOUT OUR HOME LOCATION, AND HERE GOES; WE LIVED IN BOTTINEAU COUNTY, OUR FARM BORDERED THE COUNTY LINE ON THE EAST. WE LIVED ABOUT 1 MILE WEST OF THE JOHNSON FARM THAT WAS LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF WILLOW LAKE.  WE ATTENDED DUNSEITH HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE IT WAS MUCH CLOSER, BESIDES I LIKED DUNSEITH ALSO.  NOT THAT BOTTINEAU WASN’T PLENTY O K, OUR FAMILY SEEMED TO KNOW MORE PEOPLE FROM DUNSEITH, AND OUR MAIL CARRIER (GLEN WILLIAMS) WAS ALSO FROM DUNSEITH, AND MY UNCLE BUILT THE DEPARTMENT STORE THAT WAS LATER KNOWN AS THE MYHRE DEPT STORE AND SO ON. 

I DO REMEMBER A PART OF THE STOKES FAMILY COMING TO OUR HOME ONE EVENING, AND I REALLY DO NOT KNOW THE REASON OR THE OCASION BUT I DO KNOW MY PARENTS WERE VERY PLEASED WITH THE VISIT.  I DO REMEMBER PLAYING SOFT BALL AT THE ACKWORTH SCHOOL AND THE RESULT WAS NOT GREAT FOR LOON LAKE SCHOOL # 2.  THAT WAS O K OUR TEACHER ADAM LANG HAD MARRIED A HIATT GIRL, AND PERHAPS THAT WAS WHY WE HAD TO GO PLAY AND GET DEFEATED.  INCIDENTALLY, I ATTENDED HIGH SCHOOL WITH A GREAT GIRL NAMED BETTY RADLEY, WHO WAS LIVING IN YOUR AREA I BELEIVE. AND I KNEW QUITE A FEW OF THE HIATT STUDENTS.  ONE IN PARTICULAR WAS A GOOD FRIEND, AS THEY ALL WERE BUT WE KIND OF HIT IT OF QUITE WELL, AND THAT WAS NORMAN HIATT.  I HOPE TO HEAR FROM SOME OF MY OLD FRIENDS, BUT AT MY AGE, PERHAPS SOME HAVE EITHER GONE TO THE PROMISED LAND OR HAVE MOVED AWAY. JUST THE SAME SHOOT ME A LINE OR TWO

KINDEST REGARDS

ERLING LANDSVERK

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Erling, You mentioned knowing Norman Hiatt.  He is now deceased, but all 4 of his children, Jim, Maryls, Vickie & Lori are all on this distribution list.  Also, from the location of your home, It sounds like you would have lived about a half a mile north of the current Lester Halvorson farm.  Lester & Dorothy’s daughter, Lynn, has been forwarding all these messages to her folks. You may remember some of the Halvorson’s. Gary

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Question from Jan Bergan Evans (66):

Hi Gary I was wandering if anyone knows what happen to Jim and Judy Olson Olsen?? He was a business teacher in 1965 66 Thanks She also was a teacher but I can’t remember what she taught

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Folks, LeaRae Parrill Espe was asking this same question a few months back.  We have been unable to locate them. I noticed in the Dunseith book, James & Judith Olson were hired, as teachers, in 1966.  Please let us know if any of you have any idea where Jim and Judy may be living these days.  Gary

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From Arlan Wenstad (64):

Hi gary me again. Do you remember when your dad and Therman Parrill had a head on car accident right at the Willow Lake school hill. We were playing ball at recess at the time, when we heard a crash. Good thing no body got killed,but pretty shaken up. I don’t remember what kind of cars they were driving, but they were both totaled out. Maybe it’s a good thing it happen there, because i’m sure they both slowed down because of school kids.

Arlan, I don’t remember that accident, but my dad wasn’t noted for being the best driver in the world.  Since you guys were playing ball, this must have been in the spring or fall months.  I do remember my dad having another accident on that same road, in the winter, with Johnny Lagerquist. That too was a pretty hard impact, but, as I remember, both cars were still drivable.  I remember being in the car with that accident.  I was about 5 years old at the time.  A year or so later we had another accident when the train hit our car, near the cemetery, going into Bottineau.  Our car was totaled in that accident.  We were very lucky to be alive.

Evon Lagerquist, can you ask your mother if she remembers that accident?  Clayton or LeaRae, Maybe you guys can ask Marie if she remembers the accident that my dad had with them too.  Gary

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Message/Pictures from Dick Johnson (68):

Gary and All Friends

I have enclosed a couple pictures taken at Lake Metigoshe in
about 1991. Dwane and Candice Getzlaff had a 50s night at the
drive in. We have a cabin just a short way up the road from
there and he asked me to bring one of my cars to help make the
night a sucess. The car is a 1956 Ford Crown Victoria. We got
into the swing of fifties clothes, at least my wife and
daughter did! When Jennifer asked me “how are you going to
dress Dad”?, I said “just put on a white T shirt and leave the
rest alone”!! I look like the fifties all the time!!! We had a
great time and several other guys brought out their old cars
too! I had this car for about 22 years and sold it to a very
good friend from St.John, just a couple of years ago. He really
wanted to have it and I was looking for something else anyway!
It has been really great hearing from more new people, please
keep the memories coming!! Thanks again Gary!

Dick