| Summary: | THEOPHIL DUSEK The following is a short history of Mr. and Mrs. Theophil Dusek and their six children. Theophil Dusek was born in Dolni Doubrouc in the Province of Bohemia (now Czechoslovakia) on December 10, 1887 and came to Bremen at the age of 12. In December, 1911 he enlisted in the Marine Corps for four years. He served in the Mexican campaign in which Vera Cruz was taken as well as in Nicaragua, the Panama Canal and other Caribbean areas. Two years after discharge from the Marine Corps, he was inducted into the Army in Montana and served in France for over a year during World War I. He took part in the offensives at St. Mihiel, the Aisne-Marne and Meuse- Argonne with Battery F, 146th Field Artillery before being discharged on April 7, 1919. Six months later on December 10, 1919, he married Nellie Haladej in Minneapolis. Nellie Haladej was born in Rudnik-nad-Sanem, Poland on April 28,1894, coming to the Boston, Mass. area in 1909 and later to Minneapolis, where her father and brothers had a business making reed furniture. After their marriage the couple farmed in Valhalla Township, three miles north of Bremen, until 1945 when they moved to 80912th St. No., Fargo, where three of their children still reside. Mr. Dusek died on November 22, 1949 and Mrs. Dusek on February 22, 1961. Six children were born to the marriage as listed below in the order of their ages: Theophil Walter Dusek served in the South Pacific as a seabee in World War II and then graduated from North Dakota Agricultural College in 1949. He was a career civil service employee at Wright Patterson Air Base in Dayton, Ohio for 20 years and is now retired in that city. Wencil Dusek has been an employee of the Burlington Northern and former Great Northern Railroads since 1947 and works as a car inspector at Dilworth, Minn. Virginia Robertsdahl is a graduate of Moorhead State University and has taught the second grade at Moorhead's George Washington School for many years. Her husband, Raymond, farms in the Walcott-Christine area south of Fargo. Georgia Grinaker worked in the office for Builder's Supply Company in Fargo and the Great Northern Railroad in Grand Forks before her marriage to Gordon Grinaker in 1953. They live on a farm near Hickson and have four children who are: Gary, a graduate student at NDSU; Dennis, who farms part of the home farm; Betty, a sophomore at NDSU, and Diane, a senior at Kindred High School. Stella Baumler worked as a secretary for the Veterans of Foreign Wars service officer and the director of special services for the Fargo Veterans Hospital before her marriage to Lawrence P. Baumler in 1957. They farm near Chaffee and have four children who are: Mary, a sophomore at NDSU, and Sharon, Jon and Rick, who attend the Chaffee school. Lester Dusek served in the Regular Army during the Korean Conflict. He was a clerical worker and spent several years in Japan. Prior to his military service he worked for Greyhound Bus Lines in Fargo and is now retired on a disability. At times between 1927 and 1945 the Dusek children all went to school at Valhalla School No. 3 located two miles east of their farm now owned by Marvin Anderson. These were the years that included the Great Depression. In retrospect they were very hard and difficult times but at the time they did not seem so. The many neighbors, teachers and others in the Valhalla community made those years endurable and they are fondly remembered. ■ '■ ' . d: . .■ ,.:■ /■"'■;' " :: ,' b. : :: Mm «| &^M&£m\\ ¥■■■ Helga and Erick Erickson ERICK H. ERICKSON Erick H. Erickson was born in Mora, Sweden, October 10, 1862. He landed in Philadelphia, Pa., May, 1883. He became a citizen on January 23, 1899. He qualified for 151 acres under the Tree Claim Act in March of 1900 and 160 acres homestead in August, i901. He worked as a blacksmith on the railroad in Canada before homesteading in North Dakota. The farm is located 11 miles west, 1 mile north and 1V2 miles west of Sheyenne. His first house still stands out on the farm. It was later used as a garage. Dad had two stoves in his house; while one was burning, he would carry the other one out and pack it with flax straw and carry it back in. When the stove had cooled he would move the stove pipe to the full one and repeat the cycle. In 1907 he married Helga Thomas, who had homesteaded a few miles south, on what was later the Gust Anderson farm. Helga Thomas was born in Norway on the Lofoten Islands on March 7, 1882. She came to the United States with her parents. They lived six miles west of Devils Lake city, on the shore of Devils Lake. Five children were born to Helga and Erick Erickson. They are: Edward H., born June 10, 1908; Evelyn, March 11, 1910; Florence, March 25, 1912; Arthur Orville, April 19, 1914; and Erick Verner, July 27,1920. Edward now lives in Minneapolis, Minn.; Evelyn Quist lives at Barrett, Minn.; Florence lives in Altemonte Springs, Fla.; A. Orville still resides in the Sheyenne community; Eric Verner lives in St. Paul, Minn. He married Dallas Nelson of Oberon in 1946. They have three children: Dawn Erickson, Paulus, born 1950, lives in Bloomington, Minn, and has two boys. Vernette, born in 1953 is a registered nurse, has one son and lives in Moorhead, Minn. Jeffrey lives at home with his parents. Erick Verner was born on the farm west of Sheyenne and lived there until the fall of 1956 when he left to attend the State School of Science at Wahpeton. In 1957 he entered the Postal Service in St. Paul and has made his home there since. In 1925, my father built a new barn. There were many barn dances held, the last one in 1934. The first car my father had was a 1915 Case touring. The first radio I remember was about 1925, which he purchased from L.S. Rudy. Erick's brother, Halford, operated a store and Post Office in the Eden community, from June 19, 1900 until April 8,1905. This store was later moved and became the east part of the house on the home farm. 490 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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