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Caroline Braden
Wibaux, Montana: Caroline
Braden, one of the Wibaux County
High School Longhorn's greatest
fans left this world on July 19,
2011, at the Wibaux County
Nursing Home to live on her small
farm in the Heavens. Visitation will
was held from 3:00 P.M. until 6:00
P.M. on Sunday, July 24,2011 at the
Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home in
Wibaux. Funeral services were
held atl0:00 A.M. on Monday. July
25, 2011 in the Wibaux County
High School Gymnasium in
Wibaux with Reverend J.T. Burk
officiating. Interment will be held
in the Wibaux Cemetery.
Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home of
Wibaux has been entrusted with
arrangements.
Caroline May Bait Braden with
her twin Conrad Bair was born
amid the tumultuous flood in
Wibaux County on June 8. 1929.
Her mother, May N. Frisinger Bair
was carried over the flooding waters
of Beaver Creek on a plank in order
to birth her twelfth and thirteenth"
children safely.
Caroline's early years were spent
on the family farm in south Wibaux
County near what is now known as
The Peters/Banister Ranch. She
loved the farm life and always
dreamed of having a farm of her
"own. As a small child she sat on the
large petrified rock watching the
activities around the farm. She
learned to ride horse at an early age
and loved to tell the story of racing
across the darkening prairie with a
bucket full of eggs, never breaking
a one, but losing a shoe.
As farms began to fail and "the
dirty "30s" hit. Caroline moved
with her parents into a small house
in Wibaux. She attended schools in
Wibaux, graduating with the class
of 1947 from Wibaux County High
School.
She watched her brothers Art
and Harold excel in sports, so she
became a member of the WCHS
girls" basketball team in her high
school years. She loved the sport.
She regaled her children with her
defensive exploits on a girls" half-
court team. She worked as a wait-
ress at ~ttthea,land's Caf6 during this
time. learning the restaurant busi-
ness at an early age. She also told
of "hopping trains to Beach" to see
the soldiers off to and home from
WWII.
The war was not kind to the Bait
family, Caroline lost her brothers.
Art. Lewis. and Roger in the war.
She had the sad duty of claiming
her brother Roger's body from the
tram as her mother, newly wid-
owed. could not face that final
death. Having lost her twin Conrad
to pneumonia at 18 months.
Caroline was the youngest in the
family: she said that maybe the
youngest are spoiled, but they have
to cope with the most grief.
On June 18. 1947. Caroline mar-
ried Bernard R. Braden in Glendive.
Montana. They made their home in
Wibaux living first with her mother.
then in an apartment above what is
now The Rainbow. Other young
families lived there and Caroline
began a lifetime of friendships in
those apartments. In 1951. near the
birth of their fourth child. Caroline
and Bernard moved into their new
basement, the begmning of their
family home.
Following the births of seven
more children, the family "moved
upstairs."
Bernard. Caroline and the chil-
dren all helped build that dream as
well as their brothers, in-laws, and
friends. In November of 1964. the
family settled in their completed
home. Caroline's twelfth child was
the only baby to come home from
the hospital to the completed house.
As Caroline's children grew. she
started to work outside the home.
She went to work as a cook at The
Palace Cafr. In this job she became
a star baker of doughnuts, maple
sticks, and carmel rolls and a terrific
all-around cook. She was often
heard to praise her boss Delsi
Grigsby for teaching her how to be
a good restaurant cook. As more of
,,Caroline's children grew and
became independent, she started
working at the Skelly/Ftying J
Truck Stop in Beach. She frequent-
ly commented on the friendly peo-
ple she met working in Beach. She
later worked at Grandma's Kitchen
in Beach before her retirement in
1990.
All durmg this time. Caroline
was an avid follower of the Wibaux
Longhorns. She and Bernard had
an agreement: he took his big fall
hunting trip. and Morn went to all
the basketball games and tourna-
ments she could. Along with her
friend Margaret and sister Mary, she
became known as one of the most
vocal hecklers of referees. As time
went on Caroline found a way to
avoid giving refs a hard time. She
began keeping a score book.
She and her Mark 1V score book
appeared at all the Long horn bas-
ketball games. She even had to help
the official score keeper a time or
two, which gave her a great thrill.
She followed all her children in
their athletic careers and even her
grandchildren. Later. she also
would "adopt" certain Longhorn
favorites after her children were no
longer playing. She followed these
young people throughout their high
school careers applauding their suc-
cesses and challenges. As the years
went on and she could no longer
make it to tournaments herself.
Heidi and Hutch made sure she
made it to Miles City to watch the
Longhorns play. The family is for-
ever gratefld to this wonderful cou-
ple for helping their mother so
much
Ak':~li"a~ attendirig Lorigtiorn
football and ~0asketbaH games.
Caroline enjoyed playing gin and
bingo. She was a staunch supporter
of all her children's pursuits and
really enjoyed bragging about her
children, grandchildren, and great
grandchildren. She loved to dance
and watch good dancing. Her final
day was spent listening to the Glen
Golden Valley
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July 28, 2011
Edith May (Weinreis) Be
Golva, North Dakota: Edith May
(weinreis) Bosserman, age 67, of
Golva, passed away on Monday,
July 25, 2011 after a courageous
nine month battle with cancer. Edith
went to be with her Lord, surround-
ed by her~ family at her home in
Golva. Visitation was held from
1:00 P.M. until 4:00 P.M. on Friday,
July 29, 2011 at the Silvernale-
Silha Funeral Home in Beach.
North Dakota. A second visitation
was held from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00
P.M. also on Friday, July 29, 2011
at the Evangelical Church in Beach
with a family and friends service at
6:00 P.M. Funeral services were
held at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, July
30,2011 at the Evangelical Church
,sserman
camping trips, snowmobiling trips,
giving rides in Granny's yellow
jeep, entertaining at her house,
I I I
Marie Elizabeth (Nistler) Hoilar
in Beach with
Reverend James Isaac and Pastor
Curtis Dikoff officiating. Interment
will be held in the Beach City
Cemetery in Beach. Silvernale-
Silha Funeral Home of Beach has
been entrusted with the arrange-
ments.
Edith was born in Beach on Jul y
26. 1943. a daughter of Lloyd and
Violet Weinreis. She was raised on
the family farm southeast of Golva.
the oldest of twelve children. She
graduated from Golva High School
BEACH - Marie Elizabeth
(Nistler) Hollar, 96, of Beach,
passed away on Saturday, July 16,
2011, at the Glendive Medical
Center in Glendive, Mont.
Visitation was held from 9 a.m.
until 5 p.m. and 6-7 p.m. on
Wednesday, July 20,