March, 2006

99 years ago today,Maarch 22, 1907, from the diary of GN.Rye

At the day of this recording in my Father’s diary, Gullik Nelson Rye, had been in the USA for 2 years. He was 18 years old. God willing, I will share excerpts from his diary through December 31, l907.
Gullik Nelson Rye, on the right in this sporty buggy,here with his brother, Peter,was about 25 years [...]

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Eldora Rye Bakk,Mother of Barbara,Steven,Jim and Lori Bakk

Eldora is sitting on her Mother, Emma’s lap.Opal is to the left, I,Glenn, am on my Fathers knee and brother Norris is to the right.I look to be about three years old so this picture was proababy taken in 1930.
Eldora was married to OrvilleBakk during the early days of WW2.Last summer I stopped in Lincoln, [...]

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Kristi’s baby shower

Summer and Brigid hosted the party at their home in Phoenix.Kristi, on the left, about 20 years ago, is the wife of Mike Wang,f-22 pilot and SW Airline pilot. They have been friends of Dan and Brigid for years and also cousins.What a remarlable collection of intertwinging events.Beth, in the front row right is the [...]

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Kristi’s baby shower by Brigid & Summer

On March 4th Summer and Brigid hosted a baby shower for Kiristi Anderson Waan.I will now post a picture of the Anderson family in years gone by and then continue the saga of the interelations of the two families.

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Newhew Gary Rye, An American patroit

Gary, 2nd from right,behind Gradma Rye, was featured in the Gillette, Wy, newspaper of 02/03/o6. You should be able to access it on the internet. It shows Gary, age 56, sounding taps as his drill group honors the passing of one of America’s heroes who served their country. I believe th bugle is one [...]

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Roger Nelson, DVM.The rebel years

Rebel years, just kidding, but Roger was mentioned in the last blog concerning the turkey day parade in Worthington, mn. so I thought that it would be a good time to bring in Roger’s and Art’s episode with Randy’s 1931 Model A five window coupe with the rumble seat.I purchase the model a whenRandy was [...]

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