No Blog Yesterday.
For the record I did not get a blog posted yesterday.
Gary
Happy Birthday Lyle Lamoureus (’63): Prescott Valley, AZ
Violet Campbell (Picture)
Reply from Flavia Moraes (’73 Exchange Student): Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dear Gary
So good to see the picture of my American grandma Violet Campbell. Such a sweet person!
Regards
Flávia
Norwegian Sock Tree
Reply from Aggie Casavant (’69): Fort Mill, SC
Dick, that sock tree is awesome, so unique and colorful, but i have to say I was surprised to hear that there was one in Fargo. Thanks for sharing. Aggie ( The sock tree was my own description, just kind of looked that way) 
Norwegian Pictures
Reply from Colette Hosmer (’64): Santa Fe, NM
Hi Dick,
Your dispatches from Norway are fascinating. I especially love the “Tree Cozy”.
Colette
Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND
Seth Nelson
(Born September 1, 1994 – Died September 3, 2014)
Seth Nelson, age 20 of Bottineau, passed away Wednesday, near Rugby. Funeral will be held on Saturday at 2:00 pm at the Grace Lutheran Brethren Church in Bottineau. Visitation will be Friday from 1:00 pm until 9:00 pm with a prayer service at 7:00 pm at the Nero Funeral Home in Bottineau. Burial will be at the Willow Creek Cemetery near Overly.
Seth Nelson, a son of Les and Carrie (Johnson) Nelson, was born on Sept 1, 1994 in Rugby. He was raised at Bottineau where he attended school. He graduated from Bottineau High School in 2013. Following his education, he began farming and ranching on the family farm full time.
Seth enjoyed alpine skiing and ski racing. He also enjoyed 4-wheeling and snowmobiling. Seth loved spending time with Sydnie and Stetson. He adored his little sister and brother. Seth was very adventurous, he just experienced a love for sky-diving.
Seth passed away on Wednesday, September 3, 2014.
He is survived by his parents, Les and Carrie of Bottineau; sister, Sydnie, and brother, Stetson, of Bottineau; grandparents, Richard and Carol (Sletto) Johnson of Overly, aunts, Cindy (Dennis) Nelson of Bozeman, MT, Cathy Johnson of Big Sky, MT and Corrine (Jay) Clauson of Parshall, ND; girlfriend, Megan Saville, who he loved, of Bottineau, special cousins, Mariah, Sarah, Daniel, Jacob, Joshua, Jesse, the Ron Nelson family and numerous cousins.
He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Kenny Nelson. Arrangements were with Nero Funeral Home in Bottineau. Friends may sign the online register book at www.nerofuneralhome.net.
Joke of the Day
Posted by Don Malaterre (’72): Sioux Falls, SD
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Blog (148) posted on July 2, 2008
Folks, I screwed up the numbering of these messages yesterday. Yesterday’s message should have been 148, not 146. There are now two messages numbered 146. Gary
From Vickie Metcalfe (70):
Gary,
As Velma Wondrasek downsizes, she, and her family have left many photo’s at the Bottineau County courthouse. Many folks, here in Bottineau are having fun looking through them and identifying folks. These pictures are from many, many, decades of Wondrasek photography in the area, from Westhope to Dunseith, Belcourt and Rolla.
Also some wonderful old time photos that they restored for folks.
If anyone out there recalls having their class pictures, passports, weddings, restorations or family pictures etc. done at Wondrasek Photography in Bottineau go to the Bottineau courthouse and search. Be prepared to dig like an archaelolgist as they are not labeled in any order!
There’s some rediscovery of forgotten photos going on!
Vickie Metcalfe
From Ivy (Eller) Robert (74):
Gary…….In Mike Poitra Family picture, middle row, second one from the left is Esther Poitra Eller. She was my ex-sister-in-law. She had married my half-brother Herman Eller Jr. They had two children together Carl & Cindy. She pass away a few years back. I don’t remember what year. I think either Carl or Cindy sill live in Dunseith, I’m not sure. I do recognize some of the others in the picture, but I don’t remember their names. Esther & Herman divorced many years ago. I think I was still in grade school when that happened. Esther stayed in the Dunseith, but Herman Jr. moved to California, then Alaska, but retired to Prescott Arizona.
Thanks, Ivy (Eller) Robert
Mike Poitra Family picture provided by Neola Kofoid Garbe:
Gary,
If someone from this family (Mike Poitra) lives in Bottineau, and I get an address, I’ll deliver it to them. It’s a nice fairly large picture.
Neola
Do any of the rest of you know the Mike Poitra Family?
Picture/message from Dick Johnson (68):
Gary and Friends,
I have quite a few pictures of my mom’s that were taken in the mid
forties. I think she was a ‘shutterbug’ as there are many pictures that
are not for any real occasion, that I can see. It would appear she just
liked to take pictures! Now, 60 years later I’m glad she did! These two
attached pictures are of Mom’s sister, Shirley Olson Warcup [black
skirt] and Shirley Sunderland and both were taken in 1946. A couple
cuties! [Sorry Snookie!] Thanks Gary!
Dick
From Paula Fassett Pfuhl (71):
I’m guessing the photo that Tim Martinson posted was of a “CC”Camp (Civilian Conservation Corp) in the 1930’s. They were established by the government to provide work for young men, or some such thing. My dad (Bill Fassett) worked at/in one – and one of the projects he was involved in was building the Clark-Sayler Refuge over in the Towner area. My sister Susan has by dad’s history books that he put together and probably has tales of the cc camps……. As you can tell, I’m not the historian of the family and probably have my facts all “bass-ackwards” as my dad would have said….
Paula
