Arvilla Dianne (Westlund) West, 85, of Athens, OH (formerly of Lake Park & Hawley, MN), passed away under the care of Hospice at The Laurels of Athens Nursing Home on January 20, 2023. Arvilla was born on September 27, 1937, to Albert and Alice (Teigen) Westlund on their farm in rural Lake Park, MN. She attended District 10 primary school and graduated from Lake Park High School in 1955. Following high school she worked briefly at the Gopher Grill in Detroit Lakes, MN, and then took a position as a telephone operator at Northwestern Bell in Fargo, ND. She met her future husband, Thomas West, at a Farmer’s Union Meeting in Lake Park where she and her sister, Ardis, were performing an accordion duet.
Other oral history suggestions that the Westminster Cemetery is located on the ancient burial grounds of the Native Americans who once lived in the area are not supported by contemporary research. Let’s just accept that the area has been hallowed ground for centuries.
had told us that they were there to do a we ll check on jordan. and they started talking to us. investigators told them that there had been a shooting at maryland s home. they wanted to know where the watson s had been. when she dropped her off, you are here. yeah. i had a union meeting. i came home. i got home about a 15. 8:10, avian. jordan came home about a 30. the investigator asked if they had any contact with maryland? did you ever make any contact with her at all? she pulled up. and i was in the restroom. so dave said, rosemary came to the door. what did she make of what s going on? same as me. just, kind of speechless. just taking it all in. trying to process it all. the investigators never told dave and rosemary exactly what happened that night. gabe said it wasn t until the next day that he saw the news,
The Myanmar people will this week mark the 60th anniversary of the 7th July Students Uprising in Rangoon. This event was written in blood as over 100 students lost their lives and 6,000 were arrested, according to an unofficial tally of the casualties.