Ryder
News April 9, 2015
Ugh, snow on Easter Sunday…I sure wish
winter were over and we could get on with the warmer weather and summer!
Carol Jean and Wayne Hansen along with their
daughter, Annette Rockeman visited Doris and Bob Landon Thursday afternoon. The
Hansen’s live at Edgewood Vista and the Landon’s live at Brentmoor, all in
Minot. They are long time neighbors from the King’s Highway and Hiddenwood area
near Ryder, ND.
The little community of Ryder was saddened
to learn of the untimely passing of one of its residents last week. Rod Officer
passed away on Tuesday, March 31st in a Minot hospital. He is
survived by his wife, Kathy; son, Troy Officer of St. Louis Park, MN; daughter
Traci (Nathan) French of Savage, MN; 3 step-grandchildren; 7 grandchildren;
father and step-mother, George and Jeanice Officer; mother-in-law, Tresa
Driessen; Sister-in-law, Renee Best-Officer; and numerous nieces, nephews and
cousins. His funeral was held on Tuesday, April 7th at St. John’s
Lutheran Church in Ryder with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens in Minot.
Rod will be sorely missed by the Ryder
residents as well as those from many area communities. Rod was a great guy and
always there to lend a helping hand. He was the “go to” guy when you needed
plumbing supplies or your plumbing fixed. He was the guy to call when you
needed any excavating done as he had the backhoe and the expertise to get the
job done correctly. Rest in peace, Rod, Heaven surely got a good one when the
Lord called you home.
From the amount of kids at the Ryder Park
and later at the Ryder gym, I would say that the Easter egg hunt and later
crafts at the gym was a huge success!
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Gina Schenfisch along
with Dustin and Amber helping their little ones out with their craft projects
at the Ryder Gym after Easter egg hunt.
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Easter egg hunt in the
Ryder Park
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Kenny and I along with the McGrath’s were
invited to Rick and Shawna Sprinkle’s for Easter Sunday dinner…but then Levi
and Gage came down with colds and since I am to avoid getting sick if I can, we
opted out of their place and had Easter Sunday dinner at the McGrath’s instead.
Staci fixed a very tasty ham with all the trimmings and we all had plenty to
eat!
Lenyce Simmons enjoyed spending Easter
Sunday with her sons, Beau and Wes at the home of Wes Simmons.
There will be a bridal shower for Kelsey
Reinisch, bride-to-be of Alex DesRoches on April 25th at 2 p.m. at St. John’s
Lutheran Church in Ryder.
Gus’s Things and Stuff (You can visit his
website by Googling Gus’s Things and Stuff) has a little article that I am
posting with his permission in the news. The following article is in reference
to the March 26th edition of the Ryder News.
GIANT
ELEPHANT IN RYDER!
Yes—you indeed are seeing a photo of an
elephant in last week’s Ryder News. I ran into a previous Ryder resident
recently who was not aware that there is a weekly edition of Sue’s News (aka
Ryder News) available to read online. If you’re signed up for my Things and Stuff,
you probably already know this, but just in case someone out there doesn’t—now
you do. It’s easy to access: I just Google “Sue’s News Ryder.” It’s linked to
Facebook, but you don’t have to be a Facebook person to read it. If you are on
Facebook, give it a “Like.”
And speaking of the Ryder News—thanks Sue
for doing that. Seems it must be a rather thankless job, as if you write about
what is REALLY the news, people get upset (and you just might run into these
people). So you pretty much have to avoid personal matters, legal issues,
religion and politics. All the good stuff in other words. About all that leaves
is births, deaths, birthday parties and bingo. Wait . . . if you’re playing
bingo for money you’re gambling, and most all religions frown on that, so even
bingo may be taboo for small town news. Guess that leaves you talking about the
giant elephant on Main Street—see photo from Sue’s web site.
I will have another article from Gus in next
week’s news.
Mathilda “Tillie” (Van D Bruggen) Stueflat
passed away on April 2 at the age of 98.
She and husband, Ed, had lived in Ryder where he was a blacksmith. They
had 3 daughters. Their twins, Janice and Jean, were born in Ryder in 1937 with
their sister, Joan, being born in Minot.
They moved to Minot and later to Wisconsin in 1956.
Ed passed away in June on 1991 after 57
years of marriage. Tillie was such a spunky lady and supplied many fun stories from
when they lived in Ryder. Those stories were shared in the Ryder News before
Ryder’s 100th in 2006.
The following was posted on the Sue’s News
timeline by Kristina B. Syversen. I guess you would have to find her on
Facebook to get a message to her if you have any information pertaining to who
she is looking for.
“Hi everyone! So I was wondering if someone
could help me locate someone who moved to/lived in Ryder all the way back in
1915/1916. I'm looking for Berthe Knudsen Strand (she was my great grandmother)
and Emil Evensen Strand. If you know anyone who knows anything about either of
these two, please contact me! Thank you.”
That’s it for this week; get your Easter
Sunday news to me so we can share it with the world. If I don’t have more
readers responding with their news items, pretty soon there won’t be a column
to read!!
Have a great week and let’s all think warm
weather and spring, spring, spring!!!
