Obituary/Request From LeaRae Parrill Espe (67):

My aunt Olga Edinger passed away last week.  She’s moms sister. The obituary in the Bottineau paper is sketchy compared to the Turtle Mountain Star.  The star has a picture also.  If someone scans it in, I would rather it be the Star one.  Thanks.

Request from Bernard Morin (76): 

Hi Gary, my name is Bernard Morin, I was with the class of 76. Would you please add me to your e-mail list? Thanks and thanks to temetcalfe for forwarding the e-mails.

Bernard, It is our pleasure adding you to our distribution list. I Think the Metcalfe you are referring to is Travis/Debbie Metcalfe also from your class.  Gary

From Betty Lamoureux Badgett (49): 

Thanks for the info on my cousin, Eileen Murray McKie.  I was talking with another of my cousins yesterday (Dorothy Lamoureux Woods 52) and neither of us knew the date of her passing.

About Angelina Murray – I don’t know of any relationship with her – she must be from Mike Murray’s (Eileen’s dad) side of the family – and I don’t remember her name.

I look forward every morning to read your messages.  Great work!

Thanks again.    Betty

Bob Hosmer’s (56) reply to Gary Stokes: 

Hi Gary,

This Dunseith and area Community blog you put together is fascinating.  I enjoy it very much.

About Aunt Janet, she died 2006.  Her son John Norman took care of her in Dunseith for several years and did a very responsible job of it.

Janet was first married to John Byrne of St John.  This was John Norman’s father.  They divorced and Janet later married Grant Norman who was a captain on one of the American Mail Line ships.  They lived for awhile on Vashon Is., WA.  Grant died and somewhere along the line Janet moved to Escondido, CA.

When dementia set in, John moved from San Francisco and together with his mother moved to Dunseith.

Aunt Janet gave the salutatory message at her graduation.  I have the original talk she typed out on the back of an old Dunseith Red and White store advertisement.   It’s pasted in a scrapbook my mother had and I can’t peel it back far enough to see who the owner and operator of the store was. I’m attaching a photo I took of the original. Hope you can read it.  The copy is a bit faded.

Janet loved to play golf and tennis.  She visited us while we lived and worked in northern Japan and took every opportunity she could to play golf.  She always flew military standby and knowing the often wait-times she carried a book bag full of reading material.  She was a wonderful aunt to me.  I have many good memories of her kind generosity and putting up with me as a thirteen year old living with her and my grandmother (her mother) on Magnolia Bluff in Seattle in 1951.

Hope this information is helpful.  Thanks for stimulating my memory bank about her again.   Bob Hosmer

   Janet Hosmer’s Salutatory message to the Dunseith High School Class of 1932

Art Rude Pictures provide by Neola Kofoid Garbe: 

Folks, Neola sent me these pictures of Art Rude. I am not sure where she got these, but she does not know where they were taken.  With the Canadian flag in the back ground, it must be something to do with Canada.  It kind of looks like Art may be the auctioneer at a sale.  I am sure or I am hoping that some of you will recognize the area, event and year of these pictures.  Do any of you recognize any of the other folks in these pictures?  Gary
     

                                   Dunseith High School Class of 1946