| Summary: | In 1945 Ernest and Rosella moved to Fargo, North Dakota. He started working at the West Fargo Manufacturing Company in 1947 and worked there for twenty-five and one-half years. They moved to West Fargo, North Dakota, in 1950 and lived there until 1967 when they bought a place north of town near Harwood, North Dakota. They moved to Hygiene, Colorado, in 1973. Ernest retired in 1972. CHESTER L. BIGGERS and FRANCES SUMMERFOLD Chester L. Biggers was born May 8, 1921, the fifth child of LeRoy and Ruth Biggers. He attended rural school Districts 104 and 79 with his brothers and sisters. Chet worked at the Henry Beilke and Orin Hogen farms before his enlistment in the navy in June 1938, at the age of seventeen. After receiving his basic training at the Great Lakes Naval School at Chicago, Illinois, he was assigned to the boiler room aboard ship. He served in the South Pacific at the beginning of World War II and was on the aircraft carrier USS Lexington when it was sunk. "I had fireworks for my birthday," said a card Chet's folks received after his rescue. The Lexington was sunk on Chet's twenty-first birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Biggers Margaret and Dan Darkenwald Chet was promoted to Chief Petty Officer in 1934 and began service in the North Atlantic, operating out of New York City and Casablanca, North Africa. While based in Casablanca, he met the Prime Air Minister of Ireland, Lord Londonbarry. Chet was treated to an air flight with the Prime Air Minister in his private plane, viewing all of Ireland, including Lord Londonbarry's castle home. Chet met Frances Summerfold in New York City while his ship was docked there. She was employed by Western Union as a telegrapher. Chet and Frances were married in California in 1947. They have one daughter, Margaret Rose. They built a home in San Diego, California in 1951, and Chet retired from the navy in 1958. He is employed at the Navy yards in San Diego and expects to retire from this work in January 1981 after forty-two years of government service. Frances has been employed as senior teletype operator at Solar Turbine International in San Diego, California, the past four years. Solar Turbine International is a division of International Harvester Company. Their daughter Margaret married Dan Darkenwald, Billings, Montana, in 1967. Dan works as a charter pilot in Billings. They built a log home in 1975 and have three children, Dustin, Jamie and Torrey. DWIGHT BIGGERS and CHRISTINE McKAY BIGGERS Dwight Biggers started farming with his brother on the home place, Section 8, Howes Township in 1921. In 1922 he started farming what was then known as the Law farm, Section Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Biggers 9, Howes Township. This farm is now owned by Jerry Melvin. -He later moved to the farm now owned by George Killoran Northwest of Buffalo, Section 24, Cornell Township. He farmed there with his brother Bert. Three years later they moved to the Thor Bakken farm, which is now part of the Floyd Larson farm, Section 28, Buffalo Township. He and Bert farmed here until 1936 when they came back to farm the home place after his folks had had their auction sale that fall, he farmed with Bert until Bert passed away in 1955. Dwight and Christine McKay Biggers were married September 1937. They had three children; Franklin K., James Bliss, deceased, and Donna (Mrs. A.W. Jackson). They farmed here and raised shorthorn cattle, hogs and poultry, until Dwight passed away in 1964. Since then the farm has been farmed by Frank, with Christine still residing on the farmstead. This is the house in which she was born and in which her first daughter was born. Donna and her husband, Wilton Jackson, own a commercial fishing boat that they operate off the coast of Florida where they live. They have one girl, Tammy Horton. 141 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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