Ryder News for Jan. 14, 2016
I thought for sure that that big 900 million dollar lottery would surely have been won by someone Saturday night and of course that someone I was hoping would be me!! Alas, no such luck and nobody won it. Now, by the time you read this news column the jackpot will be well over 1 billion dollars and I of course will be the lucky winner. Yay, I can hardly wait…I have my plans already made as to what to do with all that money.
I received word that Edna Fredrick passed away on Jan. 2, 2016 in a Minot hospital. Edna was born Sept. 12, 1928 to Edwin and Christma (Larson) Arneson. She grew up in Ryder and graduated from the 1946 class of Ryder High School. She is survived by her husband Clifford of Minot; sons, Daniel of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Mark of Northfield, Minn.; daughters, Brenda Peterson of Minot; Julie (Dick Pross of Fargo; 6 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren; sister, Ruth Wurtz of Ryder; brother, David (Debbie) Janz of Dickinson; brother-in-law, Rudy Evansvold and numerous nieces and nephews.
Edna’s Celebration of Life Service was held on Jan. 6th at Christ Lutheran Church, Minot. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens, Minot.
I received a little more Christmas news: Faye and Bud Karna entertained on Christmas Eve. They were joined by daughter, Kellie, and her family. The next day they all went out to New Salem and spent Christmas Day with Kyann and her children.
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| Carrie Olson Severance with Jim Erb, Bud Wilson, Larry Petz |
This little girl had an early-age love for horses. In the photo you see her on Jimmy Erb’s horse with Jim holding it. The other gentlemen in the picture are Bud Wilson and Larry Petz. These 3 Ryder gentlemen are now all deceased and greatly missed by the community. This little girl grew-up and moved away, but has returned to the Ryder community as a wife, teacher and ranch helper to her husband. Yep! This is Carrie Olson Severance. She and Rod are enjoying their own horses now plus the fun of their marriage and new careers.
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| Levi Sprinkle wearing cousin Johnny McGrath’s “shades”. |
I had the privilege of babysitting grandson #2, Levi Sprinkle Saturday night. He sure is a busy little boy and kept this grandma on her toes. My house isn’t little kid proof anymore and he sure found lots of things to get into! He discovered that he liked the dog toys much more than the ones his parents sent over and he sure liked a lot of Johnny’s toys. He spent half the night running around wearing Johnny’s sunglasses. I do have one question tho…why do little kids go and hide behind a chair after messing their diaper? Maybe it just runs in this family!
The following is some old news that Faye Karna has shared from the Ryder Museum files:
Blue Hill used to be a very active community located south of Ryder. Here are some newspaper clippings from the early 1950’s that center on that area. Hope you enjoy the recall of names and events. These are being taken from an old scrapbook given to the Ryder museum and some dates are not included. So, there may be some mistakes in the dates for which we apologize but cannot correct. Who would we ask for this help?
You may notice that events or names are repeated several weeks in a row. Am not sure if Mamie Olson, writer at that time, forgot what she had written the week before or just felt it was important enough to repeat. Maybe the paper editor made the errors. Also, you will notice comments or questions in some areas. If you can answer these or supply additional information, let someone on the museum board know so they can update their records.
May 1, 1950 Blue Hill News by Mamie Olson
“Saturday, April 22, everyone really thought spring had come to stay with a perfect warm day. Sunday morning a shower of rain had fell and light showers fell intermittently all day, when about 9 o’clock a heavy rain started and about 11 o’clock it turned to snow and what a snow we did get. Minot reported 16 inches of snow. Anyway we did get a lot and with the strong east to north easterly wind, it really made drifts again. The REA went off about 5 o’clock Monday morning and we had no current until shortly after midnight Wednesday morning. No telephone communication as many telephone poles were broken and down. Two miles south from Ryder, over thirty poles are laying down. The situation is much the same or worse in other places. The linemen out of Ryder started work on Thursday to reset poles and straighten out the tangled mess. No school at Blue Hill on Monday. Since Monday the weather has been cloudy and a bit chilly until Thursday when quite a lot of the snow melted.
Harry Peterson, Don and Carl Boe went to the John Slobojan ranch near Blackwater Saturday to help Slobojan dehorn and vaccinate cattle.
Many Blue Hill folks went to Ryder Saturday where last rites for Fred Bussmann were held at the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Chet Braasch and Billy of Roseglen and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Sorenson, Karen and Kathy of Minot visited at Harry Peterson’s on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Linnertz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Plasiance and family and Cora Plasiance, all of Minot, were Sunday visitors at the John Linnertz home. Cora Plasiance remained and spent the week until Friday at the Linnertz home.”
There, I hope everyone enjoyed that little trip into the past. I found it quite interesting, especially that snow storm!
Upcoming Events:
Jan. 17: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Service 8:00 a.m.; St. John’s Lutheran Church Service 9:30 a.m.; Immanuel Lutheran Church Service 11:00 a.m.
Jan. 23: 5:00 p.m. St. John’s Lutheran Church Service with 6:00 p.m. supper and annual meeting.
Jan. 24: 9:00 a.m. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Service with 9:30 breakfast and annual meeting.
Jan. 24: 11:00 a.m. Immanuel Lutheran Church Service with 12:00 p.m. lunch and annual meeting.
Looks like this is it for this week. I figure it was way too cold to go out and make any news or get into any trouble! Maybe next week??
