Ryder News for Oct. 20, 2016
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David Kimball, Annual Pig Roast Chef.
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Visiting with friends at the Annual Pig Roast in Ryder
Community Club/Gym.
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If you didn’t get to the 2nd annual Pig Roast this last
Saturday, you missed out on good food, good music, visiting with friends and
fantastic raffle prizes. Some of the raffle prizes were gift certificates to
Homesteaders, Marketplace Foods, Cenex, and Badlands. Muriel Peterson, Staci
McGrath, Sharon Franklin and Kathy Kallestad were some of the lucky winners.
Unfortunately I wasn’t one of the lucky ones!
Kathy (Kronbach) Kallestad of Garrison spent the weekend in
Minot at her daughter Jenny (Blowers) Brossart's home. Jenny and her daughter
Kylie, Kathy's daughter Cindy (Olson) Oberdick and her children Henry and Lucy
came out to Ryder on Friday night for bingo at the school gym, then Kathy rode
back to Minot with them. Kathy enjoyed the weekend immensely hanging out with
her daughters and grandkids. Kathy's husband Rod met Jenny at South Prairie on
Sunday evening to get Kathy back home to Garrison.
John and Shirley Brandvold are celebrating their 60th
anniversary on Thursday, October 20, 2016. They are having a Card Shower and if
you want to shower them with good wishes, send a card to: John and Shirley
Brandvold, 1239 34th Ave SW, Minot ND 58701.
I read on Facebook that the Flying Farmer (John Smith) of
Plaza, ND will jump again. It has been 13 years since his last jump! This time
he will try to jump over a burning trailer house, a 200 foot jump attempt on
Oct. 30, 2016. Any reactions or questions you may call John at 701-497-3324.
I received this from Kathy Kallestad in conjunction with the
Ryder News the last two weeks regarding the articles from Gus Mueller's post
on his Facebook page, "Gus's Things and Stuff" about the old Ryder
Immanuel (German) Lutheran Church building that is now gone. Kathy said that after her brother Keith
Kronbach passed away in June of this year, there were a few people after
reading Keith's obituary, that didn't know that Keith and Kathy had a sister
named Vickie. Vickie was only a month
old when she passed away in July of 1953 of meningococcemia. Kathy and her Aunt
Marilyn (Kronbach) Kletzien who lives in Lake Wales, Florida, were texting on
September 16th about the Immanuel Lutheran Church building after it had been in
the Ryder News. Marilyn’s text, "I think your sister, Vickie's funeral was
the only funeral held in that little church. When any of our members died,
their funerals were held at St. John's Lutheran due to size. Your Grandpa
Kronbach (William) even put on a suit and attended it! He was heartbroken as we
all were. I guess I will never forget that! It was the summer prior to 8th
grade. Your mom and I were alone in the house with little Vickie, a beautiful
baby with dark curly hair. She had been
crying, all night. Your mom, dad, and Vickie had just gotten home as they had taken
her to the doctor in Parshall, I think because it was closer than to Doc Hurley
in Minot who had delivered her just a month prior. It was afternoon by this
time. I was holding Vickie and noticed she was breaking out in purpura (purple
hemorrhagic spots). I learned that later in nursing school. At that time, we
thought it was a reaction to the penicillin shot that the doctor had given her.
Back then, penicillin was pretty new and supposed to be the cure-all for
everything. I was holding Vickie and I felt
her just go limp. I called to your mom, ‘Marie, I think Vickie's gone!’ Your
poor mom. She was devastated. I ran up to the John Deere Implement to get your
dad. I don't know how I knew he was there. The guys were out in the fields
working and I think he had a machinery breakdown. To be continued if you want
to hear more." Kathy is grateful for her Aunt Marilyn sharing this with
her, as it's more than she remembers knowing, except for the fact that her
sister had meningococcemia and Kathy is waiting on the continuation of the
story.
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| Ricky, Roxanne and Ray (Sonny) Olson at Shirley and Sonny's 50th wedding anniversary. |
Upcoming
Events:
Ward County Bookmobile Schedule:
2nd and
4th Wednesday of each month near the
City Park from 12:00 - 12:30
Oct. 23: Worship Services
at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen at 9 a.m.
Oct. 23: Worship Services at St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church of Makoti at 10:30 with communion.
Oct. 23: Worship Services at Ryder’s Calvary
Church at 10:30 a.m.
Oct. 26: Medicare Part D Enrollment Event from 9
a.m.-4 p.m. at Sleep Inn & Suites, 2400 10th St. SW, Minot, ND.
Oct. 30: Worship Services at Hope Lutheran Church
of Makoti at 9 a.m.
Oct. 30: Worship Services at Immanuel Lutheran
Church of Roseglen at 10:30 a.m.
Nov. 6: Worship services at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ryder at
9 a.m.
Nov. 6: Worship services at Ryder’s Calvary Church at 10:30 a.m.
Nov. 12: Fall Bazaar 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Also the
annual turkey drawing, all to take place at the Ryder Community Center/Gym.
Nov. 13: Worship services at St. John’s Lutheran
Church of Ryder at 10:30 a.m.
Dec. 10: Santa Day and Turkey Drawing. More info
later.
That’s it for
this week. Send me your news items so we can keep this column going.
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