Condolences to the Clarence Hagen family from Lynette Halvorson Otto (75):
To the Clarence Hagen family: My condolences to you all upon your husband and fathers death. I graduated with Arlan and I will always remember the 4H days at your farm home. May God give you comfort in your grief. Lynette Halvorson Otto (75).
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Condolences to the Clarence Hagen family from Dick Johnson (68): Gary and Friends, I want to send my condolences to the family of Clarence Hagen. He was a good man and a valuable asset to our community. I always enjoyed visiting with him. His wit and smile will always be remembered. His accomplishments were many, but his greatest one was raising such a good family. He and Mary Ann did a fine job. He will be missed by all of us. Gary Morgan–I didn’t mean to rain on the parade, with my question of the Thunderbirds date. I also thought it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was a whole year later. Hey–what’s a year anyway–we are talking 50 years ago! Keep the memories coming and don’t worry about the years. Someone will fill us in! Lloyd Awalt–If Bonnie will keep typing, keep sending memories. We enjoy them. Your mention of the big hailstorm had me remembering the picture of that storm that is in the Dunseith history book so I scanned it for those who don’t have the book yet. The caption under the picture says 1943. Thanks for the memories! Thanks Gary for your tireless posting of these memories of old Dunseith! Dick
Condolences to the Clarence Hagen family from Dave Slyter (70): To the Clarence Hagen family: My wife Pat and I would like to extend our sincere feelings of sympathy to you. Your Dad was known well through out the Hills and Dunseith and Bottineau areas. He will certainly be missed. As we celebrate his life down here he will be celebrating in his new home with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Our prayers are with you all. Dave Slyter (70)
Condolences to the Clarence Hagen family from Bobby Slyter (70): My sincere condolences to the Clarence Hagen family, my thoughts and prayers are with you. JUST LITTLE OLE ME FROM KANSAS
Arnold Zeiler had a stroke – reply from Mike (Sandra Zeiler) Vandal: Hello Gary, A belated Happy Thanksgiving to you. Thank you very much for the Dunseith alumni e-mails,(blog). Yes, we did get the two messages, thank you. Also, want to let you know that Arnold Zeiler had a stroke a couple of months,ago. He is in the nursing home, which is on the third floor of the Rugby hospital. He is doing as well as expected, with a little dementia, also. Tough to see, but it is part of life. Thanks, Mike |
Happy Birthday Greg Larson from the class of 1970:
I got a message telling that Greg Larson has a birthday today, November 30th. To verify it was our Greg Larson from the class of 70, I ran his name in a program I have and it stated that Gregory Larson from Bismarck was born in November 1952.
Greg, we wish the best with your birthday today, enjoy. Judging from your email address, I’m guessing you are probably a lawyer. I think I remember you telling me that too. I think I need to improve my memory skills, if there is a way of doing that. Gary
Email Address change for Joyce Boardman Smith (53):
Hi Gary:
Thanks for all you are doing to keep us all in touch with friends.
Please note change of e-mail address for Joyce (Boardman) Smith:
Keep up the good work.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Joyce
Reply from Bill Hosmer (48):
Gary Stokes and Gary Morgan. It comes to mind that after I left the team, another team came by Dunseith in 1963. Two of them were on during my tour. They came to town, and had called my mother to let her know of the approximate time and date. When they got there, the right wingman, Bill Higginbotham spotted a large group of cars all close together, and they thought that everyone went out northeast of the town where there was a yard full of car bodies. My mother wrote to me in Okinawa that they had come to town but flew quite a distance from main street. That may be the time Gary Morgan was going to the bank, and explain the confusion. Cheers, Bill Hosmer
Reply from Kenny Nerpel (65):
Gary, Just a little note about the spit wads that are in the discussion lately. I’m not sure (CRS) what year this was but I think I may have been a Freshman. I think we were still in the old school the year before the High School moved into the new building on the South edge of town. Anyway there was this really tough study hall, the study hall from hell, that I think was the last period of the day. I liked to use this study hall to get my homework done so I didn’t have to take any of it home but was often impeded by the full scale warfare, involving spit wads, erasers and seemingly anything else that could become airborne, that was taking place in the room. This day, after taking a few good shots in the back of the head, I decided to give up on the homework and just take some time to catch up on the news in the Turtle Mountain Star. I turned the direction that I thought the fire was coming from, put up the paper in front of my face and commenced to reading. After a few minutes a spit wad slammed into the paper, tore a huge hole in it and fell harmlessly into my lap. What are you going to do? I immediately got up went to where the papers were kept, and picked up a Minot Daily News. The news wasn’t anymore interesting but the paper was quite a bit thicker and served as a much better shield for the rest of the day. Ha! Kenny
From Dick Johnson (68):
Gary and Friends, My wifes family all gathered at her sister’s home in Bismarck for Thanksgiving. They flew in for all over the country and had a good time. I made contact with Larry Hackman, who also lives there, and we met for coffee on Friday afternoon. Mel Kuhn was also in Bismarck cooking a big holiday meal for his two sons and daughter and extended families. He sneaked out for the coffee meeting with Larry and we had a couple hours of reminiscing and laughing about our years of growing up in Dunseith. Larry is a guy with a wealth of memories. It was a blast! He spoke of a few things that jarred old dusty memories in my mind and consequently gave me some more ‘ammo’ for this blog. There may be many who have had enough of my memories though! Thanks Gary! Dick
Dick, I think I can speak for most. We love your memories and will never get tired of them. Keep them coming. The same goes for all the rest of you. Being a smaller community, most all of us can relate to most everyone’s memories. If nothing else, the folks in them. We all walked the same turf, just at different times is all. Gary
Reply from Bob Hosmer (56):
Hi Gary,
Thanks for the personal note. I have had no trouble receiving the messages. And Katrine and I will be attending the Alumni Reunion with all of you in July. I’ll be sending a check soon for the dinner.
We live in Lynnwood, WA and are just few minutes drive to the Best Western Hotel.
Thanks for this tremendous service you’re providing. It’s so unique.
Looking forward to seeing you and your wife.
take care,
Bob