Adding to this page is one of the hardest things I have done in one year and ten days.  I had not talked to Donnie since I talked to him about coming to our 40tieth.  The last time we talked he said was feeling pretty good, but I could tell in his voice that he wasn't feeling as well as he was saying. 

After I escaped from high school I went up to Dickinson North Dakota to college   I stayed for a year getting my generals out of the way, and then went to work at the Vet Clinic in Hettinger, North Dakota that first summer.  I liked the vet work and stayed there for a couple of years until deciding that I might like to be a veterinarian.  So I headed back to college again, this time heading for North Dakota State University to study pre-vet.  During my time ad NDSU, I college rodeoed and during the summer time I held three association cards with NDRA, IRA and Rancher Association competing in bareback riding.  To keep things going I also worked for the stock yards in North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota

I stayed in the pre-vet program for about two years and eventually settled into working at the stock yards in West Fargo and ended up working there for 29 ½ years. 

I met my wife, Nancy, while I was in college in Fargo and we were married in 1986.  She works for a life flight team at Merict Care Hospital.  Our son. Justin, was born in 1988.  He attends college at Wahpeton and is studying  surveying and civil engineering.

I have had horses over the years but sold the last ones about a year ago.  I love to hunt and fish.  I am also an auctioneer. 

Dear God,

You took another cowboy today.  Another cowboy for heaven and one less here on earth.  He was a good one and we will miss him.  But we rejoice in knowing that you must have needed him and that his brother was waiting with open arms.