Bismarck Tribune Sunday, March 7, 2004 11C Deaths Oswald Mattheis HAZEN Oswald Mattheis, 80, Hazen, went to sleep in the Lord March 5, 2004, at a Beulah care center. Services will be held at 10 a.m. MST Wednesday, March 10, at Zion Lutheran Beulah, with the Rev. Jim Sorenson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Oswald Mattheis Visitation will be held from 3:30 to 7 p.m. MST Tuesday at Seibel Funeral Home, Hazen. Oswald was born northwest of Hazen, Dec. 15, 1923, the son of Emil and Emilie (Geist) Mattheis. He was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran in Beulah, and was a lifelong member of that congregation.
Oswald was raised educated in the Hazen area. On Oct. 17, 1950, he married his loving and devoted wife of 53 years, Clara Scheid, at Peace Lutheran Church in Hazen. Together they lived on and farmed the home place northwest of Hazen until 1977, when they moved into the house that 'Oswald built for them in Hazen. They resided there until he entered the Knife River Care Center in June 2002.
Oswald continued to farm until well past his retirement. He also worked for 10 years at various power plant construction projects in Mercer County. Oswald served on the rural school district board and the Zion Lutheran Church Council. He was an avid walker and covered many miles on the streets of Hazen. Oswald filled his leisure time with fishing and camping, working on jigsaw puzzles, or tinkering around the house or farm.
One of the highlights of his life was having grandchildren so he could share his quarters with them. Oswald is survived by his wife, Clara; two sons and daughters-in-law, Jim and Gloria, Mandan, Michael, and their children, Jason and Amy; Timothy and Brenda, Hazen, and their children, Patrick and Emily; one daughter a and sonin-law, Wayne and Debbie Rahn, Hazen, and their children, Brad and Jessica Richter, and their children, Mason, Kenny and Jody Vetter and Kalista, Kristen Rahn and her fiance, Travis Lenertz; two brothers, Albin, Auburn, Richard and Janet, Tucson; three sisters, Pauline Spier, Federal Way, Ida Oster, Colorado Springs, and Tillie Goetz, Bismarck; and one aunt, Christine Geist, Bismarck. He was preceded in death by his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; his parents; and three sisters, Frieda Oster, Hulda Nurath and Irene Adolf. The family requests memorials to the Alzheimer's Association. Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Brett Clifton JAMESTOWN Brett Clifton, 24, Jamestown, died March 6, 2004, at a Jamestown care center.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 9, at First Lutheran Church, Sheyenne. Further arrangements are pending with -Evans Funeral Home, New Henry Swenson ALAMO Henry Swenson, 82, Alamo, died March 5, 2004, at a Williston medical center. Services will be helda 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, at Calvary Lutheran Church, Alamo.
Further arrangements are pending with Fulkerson Funeral Home, Williston. Ralph Klug GRAND FORKS Ralph C. Klug, 63, Grand Forks, died March 5, 2004, at a Grand Forks hospital. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 9, at Gregory J.
Norman Funeral Chapel, Grand Forks. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Grand Forks. Ralph Klug Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home, where a prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. Ralph Clarence Klug was born Nov.
4, 1940, the son of Ralph P. and Leah (Hass) Klug in Dickinson. He moved with his family to Mandan, and graduated from Mandan High School. Ralph married Geraldine Floy on June 13, 1959, at Mandan United Methodist Church. Following their marriage, they continued to live in Mandan until moving to Fargo.
In 1962, they moved to Grand Forks, where Ralph was employed with the Civil Service Department of the United Air Force as a supply training officer. He retired on Jan. 3, 1995. He was preceded in death by his wife on Aug. 14, 2000.
Ralph continued to reside in Grand Forks until his death. He was a member of the Malta Lodge 131 A.F and A. M. of Grand Forks. Ralph enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
He was an avid sports fan and enjoyed going to hockey games, football games, basketball games and bike riding. He is survived by a daughter Kim (Mark) Wurzbacher, Grand Forks; his sisters, Pat (Dan) Kautzman, Bismarck, Linda Wheler, Michigan, and Nadine (Nick) Ressler, Mandan; his brothers, Ken (Debbie) Klug, Bismarck, and Mike (Rita) Klug, Mandan; and his grandchildren, Bri Ann and Broc Ryan Wurzbacher, Grand Forks. He was preceded in death by his parents; and his wife, Geraldine. The family requests that memorials be given to: The American Cancer Society, 1832 S. Washington Grand Forks, ND.
Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Frank Riesinger DICKINSON Frank Riesinger, 73, Dickinson, died March 5, 2004, a Bismarck hospital. Services will beheld at 11 a.m. MST Tuesday, March 9, at Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Dickinson. Burial will be held at 2 p.m. CST Wednesday, March 10, at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, south of Mandan.
He is survived by his wife, Rosemary; two daughter, Karen Riesinger, Grand Junction, and Teri Genzel, Dickinson; one son, Russ Riesinger, Monroe, five grandchildren; three brothers, Mike, Dickinson, Pete, Laurel, and Tony, Sacramento, and two sisters, Betty Dukhorn, Winsted, and Eva Krebs, Tacoma, Wash. (Price-Murphy Funeral Home, Dickinson) Bryan Webb WILLISTON Bryan Webb, 79, Williston, died March 5, 2004, at a Williston nursing home. Services will beheld at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 10, at Everson Memorial Chapel, Williston. Further arrangements are penidng.
Ann McAlister McAlister, 84, formerly of Linton, died March 6, 2004, at a Strasburg care center. Arrangements are pending with Myers Funeral Home, Linton. In Our Care Mary L. Logeland, 96 Boelter-Eastgate Funeral Service Friday, March 12, 2004; 1:00 PM Lutheran Church of the Cross, Bismarck Marilyn Bry, 71 Eastgate Funeral Service Saturday, March 13, 2004; 11:00 AM Mark Scanson House of Prayer Lutheran Church, Bismarck Licensed Funeral Director Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.eastgatefuneral.com in obituaries. astonte FUNERAL SERVICE eastgatefuneral.com FUNERAL SERVICE 2302 East Divide (Bismarck) 200 West Tumpike Bismarck Steele 223-7322 Bismarck 223-1122 Operating Bismarck's first crematorium Providing full-time aftercare services support groups Locally owned Celebration of Life Video Tribute Program Glenn Barth Glenn R.
Barth, 77, Missoula, passed away March 3, 2004, at a Yuma, medical center. Glenn He was born in Bismarck and graduated from Bismarck High School. He served in the Army during the World War II, and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1948. He was married to Mary McCurdy, of Backoo, in 1949, and entered retail shoe business later that year in Rochester, Minn. In 1954, he moved with his family to Minneapolis and completed the MBA A degree in 1955.
In an out of school and work, he earned the Ph.D. in economics in 1966. The remainder of his working career was spent at the University of Montana. He is survived by his wife, Mary, at the family home; three sons, Tom, Dave and two daughters, Alice Giard' and Margaret Rice; and his sister, Marjory Barth Atkinson, Bismarck. He was preceded in death by his oldest son, Joe, in 1973.
Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Alex Haluzak Alex Haluzak, 68, formerly of Wilton, died Feb. 14, 2004. Alex's ashes will be interned at the Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery, Wilton. Alex is survived by his daughter, Myia Tanzer, and his grandson, Chester, both of Santa Rosa, his son, Marc, Sacramento, two stepchildren, Lori and Roger, Santa Rosa; a brother, Mike Haluzak, Monticello, and three sisters, Dora Clouse, Concord, Lena Fode, Anaconda, and Stephanie Cox, Bellevue, Wash. He was preceded in death by his parents, Wasyl and Mary Haluzak; his sisters, Anne DeGracia, Katherine Winegardner and Jean Gross; and his brothers, Steve, Metro, Bill and John Samoridny.
Memorials may be made to the Haluzak Children's Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3), which supports adoption, education, and health of children. His brother, Mike Haluzak, established the foundation. The foundation address is 2149 Shady Rest Road, Monticello, the foundation e-mail address is and the phone number is 217-762- 3038. Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Edward Keller DICKINSON Edward Keller, 79, Dickinson, died March 4, 2004, at a Dickinson health center. Services will be held at 10 a.m.
MST Monday, March 8, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Dickinson. burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Dickinson. He is survived by two daughters, Mary Kay Ralston, Bismarck, and Nancy Heidt, Dickinson; four sons, Frank, Tim, Pat and Michael all of Dickinson; eight grandchildren; one brothers, great grandchild: two George, son, and Ted, Winter Haven, and one sister, Anna Marie Ries, Dickinson.
(StevensonMischel-Olson Chapel, Dickinson) State deaths GRAND FORKS Muriel Roberts, 88. WESTHOPE Elsie Pease, 70. Brenda Johnson DICKINSON Brenda J. Johnson, 30, Dickinson, died March 5, 2004, at her home, as a result of cancer. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m.
MST Tuesday, March 9, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Dickinson. Entombment will be in Dickinson Mausoleum. She is survived by her husband, Dan; her parents, Jennifer Ledford, Dickinson, Robert Benasky, Vallejo, one brother, Brad Benasky, Riverton, her grandparents, Arleigh and Theresa Meek, Wibaux, and Verna Benasky, Miles City, Mont. (Ladbury Funeral Service, Dickinson) Funerals today James Carlsen, 73, Ashley, 2:30 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Ashley.
(Carlsen Funeral Home, Ashley) DuWayne Hickel, 56, Bismarck, 1 p.m., Bismarck Funeral Home. Sharon Njos, 69, Buffalo, S.D., 2 p.m. MST, Harding County High School gymnasium. (Krebsbach Funeral Service, Bowman) Nubs of the news BIRTHS St. Alexius Medical Center Son, Roni Stiffarm and Anthony Starr, Bismarck, 9:33 p.m., March 4.
Son, Brian and Hope Kovaloff, Mandan, 7:18 p.m., March 5. Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cady, Bismarck, 9:19 p.m., March 5. Daughter, Robert and Kamee Sabrosky, Gladstone, 11:26 p.m., March 5.
Twin Daughters, Chris and Valerie Gerving, Bismarck, 11:30 p.m. and 11:36 p.m., March 5. Elsewhere Son, Cassie Gerhardt and Brad Parrish, Grand Forks, March 5. Grandparents are Ed and Pat Gerhardt, Mandan. Great -grandparents are Clem and Lucille Boehm, Mandan.
IMPOUNDED ANIMALS Cats Short hair male, gray, impounded from the 700 block of South 12th, March 4. Domestic long hair-Siamese mix, cream with white toes and dark points, impounded from 802 East Interstate, March 5. For a current listing of impounded pets, contact the Bismarck Police Department at 223-1212 COURTS South Central District Felony Sentences Morton County Judge Donald Jorgensen Theft of property: Joshua E. Schyma, 27, 3841 Jericho Road No. 6, one year suspended for two years with supervised probation.
Judge Thomas J. Schneider Terrorizing: James R. Samuels, 22, 802 Poplar Mandan, 18 months with 16 months suspended for 'three years with supervised probation. Aggravated assault: Ronald J. Cassezza, 41, 1412 Second St.
N.W. No. 3, Mandan, one year suspended for two years with supervised probation, 100 hours community service. Felony Dismissals Morton County Paul Ereth, 48, 1105 Pioneer Trail, Mandan, was charged with possession of methamphetamine. The charge was dismissed.
Loren A. Nadeau, 28, 3120 Twin City Drive, Mandan, was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to deliver and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. The charges were dismissed. Finding stre in loss Serving All Mandan's Only Independent Family-Owned Funeral Home Gary Larson Pat Larson Unlicensed Owner Funeral Director Buchler- Larson Funeral Home 1701 Sunset Drive Mandan 663-9630 Sioux Falls robbery may have been Dillinger's work Barth SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) John Dillinger took Sioux Falls for a ride 70 years ago.
He and his gang members stole $46,000 at gunpoint from the Security National Bank on March 6, 1934, then skipped town in a green Packard with four women on the car's running boards as hostages. He left behind a city stunned by witnessing a crime in broad daylight a block from the police station, along with a question that never has been fully answered: Was it really John Dillinger? Mary Lucas Hawkins was there, and she doesn't know. She was too busy obeying the robbers' orders that day and never got a good look at their faces. She looked out the window shortly before 10 a.m., spotted a slowmoving car and remarked to her co-workers: "That looks like a bunch of robbers." The car stopped, six men came in, and Hawkins soon became part of a human shield to protect the gang as it escaped. Bruce Blake wasn't there, but he thinks Dillinger was, based on research that will lead him to place a historical marker at the site where witnesses gathered on the sidewalk.
He's convinced of the story yet sees why doubters question Dillinger's ability to move from an Indiana jail cell to a Sioux Falls bank vault in just three days. One who has no doubt is Ardyce Samp, a Flandreau woman who studied FBI documents in the 1990s to piece together how the crime occurred. "I know it's Samp, 81, says of Dillinger's role. The crime itself is like a freeze frame Ernie in Sioux Carlsen, Falls historian his son, Chris, owns the Security building, has a desk a few feet from where Baby Face Nelson stood and fired his tommy gun at the start of the robbery. The gunfire shattered a window on the Ninth Street side and wounded police officer Hale Keith, who was running to the scene from City Hall.
Hostages and tacks Hawkins, 94, remembers a cold day on which she wore a navy suit with a pinstriped jacket. The robbers came in through the Main Avenue entrance and told her and three other women to get ready for a ride. "By the time they collected the money, they wanted us to make a circle so they could get out and get to their car," she says. "We were on the running board." The robbers drove south on Main Avenue, west on 14th Street, then south on Minnesota Avenue into Lincoln County. The ride wasn't frightening.
"They didn't do anything to us," says Hawkins, who now lives in Billings, Mont. Nor was it all that fast. "They had to be careful of the traffic," she says. If four women riding on the side of a car made the escape difficult to conceal, the robbers used a schoolboy trick to keep followers at a distance. "They were throwing out all these roughing tacks," says Hawkins.
"Anyone that came near to follow them, they'd get a flat tire." South of town, the robbers stopped and let the women get into the car, but they had a problem because police gunfire had damaged the Packard's radiator. So they stopped again and forced an oncoming motorist to help. "They took a car from a man coming to town with his cream and eggs," Hawkins says. "He had to put his cream and eggs along the highway. They let us go, and we started walking back to town until another man came along and wondered what we were doing out there without any coats." Blake says the robbers turned east, cut through the town of Shindler, crossed the Sioux River into Iowa, went through the CASTLERAY PHILLIP MARTHA H.
1926-1981 1927. HIGHEST QUALITY MONUMENTS Tablet: 36" 6" 20" Base: 48" 12" 6" $895 BISMARCK MARBLE GRANITE miles East of Bismarck on Hwy. 10 DO. Box 2421 Bismarck, ND 58502-2421 "There were gangs like that floating around the Midwest robbing banks. They would last a year and then get themselves killed Ernie Carlsen town of Granite and vanished.
The robbery came during a period between the two world wars when odd and notorious events dominated newspaper headlines. In 1936, a powderhouse explosion near 26th Street and Highway 11 marked the spot where a gang of jewel thieves stuffed an accomplice and his girlfriend inside a shed and attempted to obliterate them with dynamite. In 1938, Minnehaha County was the epicenter of an earthquake. Frontier crime Bank robbers struck throughout the Midwest. A mother and her daughter stuck up the First State Bank of Renner in 1925 and escaped when members of a posse couldn't get their cars started in the cold November air.
The women were captured after one went into Sioux Falls' Fantle department store to cash in 950 pennies stolen from the bank. Dillinger, along with Bonnie and Clyde and bandits such as the Barker gang, gave rise to the political prominence of J. Edgar Hoover and the agency that would become the Local police departments across the country had little firepower to compare with thieves toting machine guns, so federal agents took the lead in solving bigger crimes, often by shooting the robbers. "There were gangs like that floating around the Midwest robbing banks," says Carlsen. "They would last a year and then get themselves killed off." The Midwest was something of a frontier, just a half-century removed from the Old West era in a time of no television, no interstate highways and a population struggling through drought and the Great Depression.
Criminals saw banks as an easy mark. "It was all kind of between here and Texas," says Carlsen, who grew up on a ranch in Butte County and today is president of Land Title Guaranty. "I suppose with the wide-open spaces, 1 it was easier to escape. And, of course, they did escape." Crowds of spectators Miseries of the economy and lost savings in the 1930s allowed robbers to capture the public imagination. In Sioux Falls, by the time the Dillinger gang got in and out at the Security bank, the crime had become a public sensation.
Downtown employees leaned out of office windows to watch, and crowds on the rushed to Ninth and Main as spectators. The next morning's New York Times said 1,000 people had gathered as witnesses, while on the day of the robbery, the afternoon Argus Leader said it sold 10,000 copies of a morning extra that included the question: "Was it Dillinger?" It was a sign of excitement in uncertain times. "People lost their shirts with bank says Blake, a historian who had a law office in the Security building for 20 years. "A lot of people admired these Robin Hoods, except that they didn't share it with the poor." Dillinger is said to have arrived in Sioux Falls in a green Packard stolen off a St. Paul car lot the day before.
He had escaped March 3 from jail in Indiana by brandishing a fake gun, fled in a sheriff's car that he dumped in Chicago and then made his way west. The night of March 5, he and the gang slept in Flandreau's St. Vincent Hotel, which was built in 1897 and still is used today. It's the Flandreau connection that helps prove that Dillinger really was in Sioux Falls, says Samp. According to Samp, the FBI said Evelyn "Billie" Frechette, a former student at the Flandreau Indian School, was a girlfriend Dillinger met in St.
Paul and in a position to advise him on using Flandreau as a springboard for the Sioux Falls hit. Flandreau girlfriend Against that backdrop,.
