Richard (Dick) & Kathy (Petroskey) Otto

Our daughter's wedding July 2012.

Rachel, Kristie, Craig, Lynnae, Kathy, Dick, Annette, Jackie, Steve

The entire family.

We have six children and twenty grandchildren.

 

 

 

Dick had a dairy farm by Millerville for twenty years.  Then he worked for the Minnesota Department of Transportation for twenty-two years. In his retirement years he enjoys gardening, fishing and hunting.


 

Norbert Wagner 1956 -- Mary Ann (Suchy) Wagner 1957

Norbert and Mary Ann Wagner will be married 58 years on October 4, 2013. After their marriage, they moved to St. Paul MN where they started their family business of 50 plus years, which is now located in Inver Grove Heights, MN.   They have eight children, eighteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren.  Norbert and Mary Ann love to travel. They have been on several cruises and have traveled to many cities in the US.  In the summer months, they enjoy spending time at their home on Lake Moses in Brandon, MN.  In the winter months, they enjoy vacationing at their home in Henderson, NV.

 

 

Norbert and MaryAnn have eight children who live within 30 miles of their Inver Grove Heights home.

Norbert and Mary Ann with their eighteen grandchildren.  This picture was taken at their grand daughter's wedding in June 2012.  One grandchild is missing in this photo.

 And here are the fourteen great grandchildren ranging in age from 11 years old to 3 weeks old.   The pictures are shown by family.

 

 

Mary Ann is retired and enjoys gardening and fishing when she in not cooking or baking.

 

 

 

 

Norbert is also retired.  He enjoys meeting his buddies for coffee on a daily basis. He also enjoys staying involved with the sod and landscaping business.   Norbert remembers when cutting, rolling and stacking sod, used to be done by hand.  Now they have automated machinery for these jobs.

Orris and Judy (Klimek) Schjei

 

 

I was born in the farm house on the Schjei family farm south of Brandon MN, which is now known as Long Lake Lodge.  I helped with the farming, attended district # 82 country school  and Brandon High School.

 

 

 

In 1960 I married Judy Klimek of Alexandria.  Our children were born while we lived on the farm,  which I operated until 1968. After attending Alexandria Technical College for accounting, I worked at Ludke & Co/Henry's Foods for nearly 40 years.

 

 

 

 

 

Tim, Steven

Peggy & Ann

 

We raised our four children in Alexandria and lived in the Lake Victoria area.  We built a new home in 2000 where I enjoy yard work, gardening and wood working,  I also enjoy walleye fishing and have bowled for over fifty years.  We have traveled yearly for family reunions, mostly to the western states.   We have eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren .

Bill Suchy and his tractor

Bill in the Millerville Butter Days Parade

Dennis Korkowski 1956 -- Christella (Goering) Korkowski 1957

 Dennis went into the Air Force right after graduation and served four years, spending three of it in Scotland.  Chris started work in the First National Bank in Alexandria.  We were married in 1959.  Dennis went to Northwest TV & Industrial Electronics School in Minneapolis while Chris worked at Electronic Supply Merchants Inc. in Minneapolis.  After graduating Dennis worked at Honeywell where he worked on the guidance systems for many of the early space missions including Mercury, Gemni and Apollo.

 

We moved to Brandon in 1965 when we started Brandon Communications and operated this company for 38 years.    We served customers over a 10 county area.  When we retired we moved to a small hobby farm in the country.

 We have six children and eight grandchildren. 

 Back: Tom, Ed, Rick, Ron & Pat  Front: Deb, Christella & Dennis

This family photo was taken in 2007

 

It is hard to get everyone home at the same time.

  These pictures were Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2011

 

Dennis got his pilot's license at age fifty and flew small aircraft for twenty-three years.

 

Chris keeps very busy at the Brandon History Center. 

 Keeping track of the 10,000 plus pictures on our computer is memory therapy.

 

Dennis shares a ham radio station  in our basement with son Pat.  He contacts fellow hams in all the corners of the earth.  Keeps him busy when Chris is sitting at the sewing machine.

 

We are counting the days until the class reunion.

Ardyce ( Hockert ) LeBlanc

 Ardyce is always busy with her family.  She has eight children,

 seventeen grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

One son passed away five years ago.

 

Celebrating a daughter's birthday in August 2012

 

 

 

 

Celebrating a wedding in St. Cloud with her sons and a nephew.

Vincent, Ardyce, Jim and a Hockert nephew.

 

Ardyce enjoying her family.

 

Ardyce has worked in the Osseo Senior High School kitchen for sixteen years and loves it.   While at work she gets to see some of her grandchildren in the lunch room,  who attend  school there.  Ardyce loves to listen to good music and  read a good book.  She loves to travel and hopes to do more in the future.

 

David & Susie ( Botzet ) Lusty

After graduation I, Susie Botzet Lusty, went to work in Minneapolis as a bookkeeper for a wholesale house and worked there for four years.   After my mother passed away, I came home to be with my Dad and worked at the Brandon Grain Elevator.  I worked there until our first son was born. While living in the cities, I had the privilege to room with two of my classmates LuAnn Roers and Florence Bitzan who are no longer with us.  Good times and memories will never be forgotten.

 

I got married in 1961 to Dave Lusty of Miltona. We have three children, Brad, Bob and Barb.
Left to Right: Brad and wife Roxann,  Bob and wife Rochelle, Barb & husband Tom Randall.
Roxann and Rochelle are sisters.

 

 

We were dairy farmers until 2005 and now crop farm and raise Norwegian Fjord horses.  I started working for our second son who has a packaging and shipping business and am still employed there as office manager.

 

 

Grandkids & great grandkids

minus one great grandbaby.

 

We celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary in July of 2011.

 

The whole family with just one great grandbaby missing.

No step grandkids on this picture. 

All together we have three children, 7 grandchildren,
2 step grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren
 & four step great grandchildren.

 

We do many activities with our horses;
 weddings, rides at Carlos Creek Winery,
benefits for churches and rides at Miltona Tornado Days.

 

 

Every year in April we attend the Horse Expo at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, to help promote the Norwegian Fjord Horse breed. We also go to Blue Earth  for the Fjord competition.  I don't do much of the driving but my husband enjoys it.

 

 

 

We went to Texas this past winter for a couple of weeks. 

 It is hard to get away when you have animals.

 

Have not had time to retire yet. 
 We are looking forward to seeing everyone.

Walter and Gloria Otto

 

Walter and Gloria  Otto

 

Walter joined the Army right after high school. This picture is of Walter and Dennis Korkowski, taken at New Jersey, before Walter was shipped out to Germany.  Walter was stationed in Germany for one year.   When he returned from the service he went to Alex Tech for two years, under the GI Bill, and took up farm management. He started farming in 1965, milked 50 cows and raised hogs.  After farming he went to work for MnDot, in Alexandria MN, until his retirement in 2002.  In 2006, Walter and Gloria built a house in Brandon where they now live.

 

Walter and Gloria were married in 1962.
They have seven children,
twenty two grandchildren
and five great grandchildren.

 

 

 

The whole family was home to celebrate  their

 50th Wedding Anniversary in 2012.

 

 

 

  

 Walter still has a 70 acre hobby farm, near Millerville, where he mostly raises corn and beans for the deer and pheasants.   He goes fishing often with Bill Suchy.

 

Bill and Lorraine Suchy

 

 

 

 

 

Bill in the 6th grade in 1951

 

After school I worked at the Armour Packing House in South St. Paul for five years. The next thirty-four years I spent working for John A. Dalsin & Son Inc.,  which is a roofing and sheet metal company. The last seventeen years I was the head superintendent of the company.

 

 

Our family picture was taken at the 100th birthday party for Lorraine's mother, Helen Gergin. Helen is sitting in the middle.

 

We have five boys and eleven grandchildren. We built a home on Lake Aaron in 1982 and retired there in 1995. Have done lots of golfing over the years, but have hung that up. 

 

Still go hunting and fishing. 

 Evidence of this are the mounts in our house.

 

 

 Halibut fishing five years ago in Alaska with

friend Marv Schuller

 

 

Bill makes 160 lbs of pork and beef sausage every year.

  He also makes head cheese and blood sausage.

 

Shot this turkey in April of 2013.   He weighted 21 pounds and 4 ounces with an 8 1/2 inch beard and 3/4 inch spurs. 

 

 

There are only six states that Bill has not been to yet.  They have traveled to Europe twice.  



Janice (Roers) Olson



First Grade riding the bus



"My sister from Texas came home to visit Mom when she turned 50 so we had a surprise party for her and dressed up like 'old people' (some of us already are!).  Her birthday is October 28th so we included our Halloween traditions while growing up of stringing up doughnuts in the doorways and having a race to see who could eat theirs the fastest and dunking for apples in the old bread pan filled with water.  It was a blast.  As you can see some of the costumes were hilarious!"                    --Jeanne Kramer







Janice & Orris are bringing Runestone news back to Hemna, Norway

 

 

 

 

Celebrating my 70th birthday

 

 

 

 

 

 Celebrating my 75^th birthday

 

 

We enjoyed our three-week trip to the Scandinavian countries and enjoy spending our winters in Arizona.