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
