Ryder News for Nov. 17, 2016
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| Food, Fun and Fellowship at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Ryder’s Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner. |
Kenny and I had a very enjoyable Pre-Thanksgiving dinner at St. John’s Lutheran church here in Ryder on Sunday. They served turkey and ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, cream corn, pickles, buns, variety of desserts, coffee and kool aid. The cooks did a marvelous job!
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| Dolls made by Denise Johnson for Ryder’s Craft Bazaar. |
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| Horse shoe art crafted by Justin Johnson. |
I attended the craft bazaar and turkey drawing in Ryder on Saturday. It seemed that the crowd visiting was a little smaller but there sure were a lot of nice items being offered for sale. There were dolls, jellies, and breads made by Denise Johnson. Justin Johnson’s display featured many items that he had made from horse shoes such as yard ornaments, snowmen, Christmas trees, etc. Pampered Chef had a table, Stephanie Hagen was sewing pillowcases and also refrigerator handle covers. Paulette Petz had a variety of baked goods as did Denae Anderson. Gary Hagen was also selling baked goods and some pictures that he had taken and made into beautiful cards. Several vendors were selling beautiful homemade Christmas crafts. Another vendor was selling hair clips of many different varieties. The Close-Up Kids were in charge of the lunch and they were selling Taco in a Bag, Hot Dogs, Chili, Chili Dogs, bottles of water, a variety of soda and they had one table devoted to baked goods. Lucas Brown was the one in charge of the money box, taking your money and making change. Lorraine Nelson and Wendy Wohlk were in charge of the sign in table (for door prizes) and also passing out the tickets for the turkey drawing. By the way, I did win a turkey!
There were a lot of turkeys given away, but I never did get an actual count.
The pastor from Ryder’s Calvary Church, Jonathan Starks, had a heart attack on Monday. Luckily his wife Pam got him to the hospital in time and he had two stints put in. Prayers for a speedy recovery.
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| Daniel Starks and Ethan Rogers at MSU Northwest Music Festival. |
Daniel Starks of Ryder and Ethan Rogers of North Shore Plaza were participants in the Mixed Choir of the Minot State University Northwest Festival of Music that was held November 4th and 5th. The honor of this musical experience was with a choir of 120 high school participants from North Dakota and Montana who were chosen out of many hundreds of auditions.
Our daughter Staci McGrath was very pleasantly surprised by her hubby John on Friday of last week. He had plotted and schemed with her best friend Reina for months to fly her in to see Staci on her birthday. Well, that day didn’t work out so they just changed the date. Reina lives in Italy and was in Arizona visiting with her family when John flew her in. Staci and Reina became best friends when they were neighbors on MAFB and have been in constant touch since she moved to Italy.
I received notice that a classmate of mine had passed away peacefully in his sleep on Wednesday, Nov. 9th. Joe Richard (Rick) Haugen of Bismarck, formerly from Parshall, was born to Einar and Priscilla Haugen on March 26,1947. He was married to Ardyce Huus and they have 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren. Our sympathy goes out to the family.
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| Ryder’s Rosehill Cemetery |
The Ryder Cemetery has had an update. Just wanted to share a picture with you former Ryder folks. Notice how the evergreens have been trimmed and a new fence added. Surely was needed and deeply appreciated. It looks so nice when you come driving into Ryder on #28 from the north!
Did everyone get to the new Ryder City Hall Building and vote? There were 186 voters on Nov. 8th and that didn’t include early voters and absentee ballots. I was suppose to have had pictures of some first time voters but they were never sent to me.
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| Howard Arvidson |
Here is a picture for the news of Howard Arvidson who died on Oct. 24, 2002. Many remember the Arvidsons so thought they would enjoy seeing his picture. Sent by Stan Hjelmstad.
Remember Faye Karna sent in obits for Howard Arvidson and Grace Arvidson and asked if anyone had any information about Gordon Arvidson and Aimee Arvidson?
Well, Duane Edwards from Redding, California sent me info on both of them plus he also had some info for Karl Bogh from Denmark which I sent on to him.
JOHN GORDON ARVIDSON
Following info is from the Find-A-Grave Index on Gordon Arvidson. I note
that his first name was John. J. Gordon Arvidson. October 5, 1928 - July 3, 2008
Wife, Helen; daughters: Beth, Mary Ann (Danny), Judy, Chris (Glen); sister, Aimee.
AIMEE MARIE ARVIDSON REED:
Without going into details--- Gordon’s sister Aimee was living in
July 2008. She was listed in the 1940 census as ANNIE and living in
Ryder. Residence (at time of death, June 20, 2010): Sierra Vista, Arizona
Obituary Date: 27 Jun 2010.
Sue: I hope this info is of use to Faye. I got it on Ancestry.com, but have not done my usual research to document the facts. Many times on Ancestry people just copy the info [ as I have done in this case ] and later it is found that there are errors that get repeated with the result that the wrong people become listed as relatives. In this case, I believe that we do have the correct family info.
I sure do appreciate my readers helping out with the research on certain people. It makes Faye’s work so much easier and I get to put it in my column!
I received many comments about my news picture last week of Flo from Progressive Insurance and Jake from State Farm. They thought it was the best one of the Halloween pictures!
Upcoming Events:
Nov. 19: A Baby Boy shower for Shannon Stafslien at the Makoti Senior Center from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Nov. 20: Worship Services at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen at 9 a.m.
Nov. 20: Worship services at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Makoti at 10:30 a.m.
Nov. 20: Worship services at Ryder’s Calvary Church at 10:30 a.m. with Sunday
School for PK-Adult at 9:30 a.m.
Nov. 20: Benefit for Gorlyn Wohlk for medical expenses at Douglas Senior Center from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Nov. 23: Ward County Bookmobile will be in Ryder on Wednesday, from 12- 12:30 on Main street near the City Park.
Nov. 27: Worship Services at Hope Lutheran Church of Makoti at 9 a.m.
Nov. 27: Worship Services at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Roseglen at 10:30 a.m.
Dec. 2: Bingo at the Ryder Community Center/Gym starting at 7 p.m.
Dec. 10: Santa Day in Ryder in the Ryder Community Center/Gym starting at 1:30 p.m. with kid’s crafts, 2:30 Santa arrives, 3 p.m. is the turkey drawing. All sponsored by the Ryder Community Club.
That’s all for this week. Send me all your news so we can keep this column going. Watch out for the deer that are now running all over to avoid the hunters.
