- Myrna Baumann
As Baumann’s story recounts, the family’s hired man had no weather-related difficulties driving her mother, Frances Geritz, to the hospital in Lakota on the afternoon of March 15, 1941. Mrs. Geritz was having labor pains.
“Many other people were out that afternoon doing their weekly shopping on a very nice Saturday and enjoying the snow melting as we do in March in North Dakota,” Baumann said.
But, as can happen on the North Dakota prairie in March, the weather quickly changed
. Baumann s father, Jacob, who had taken his father-in-law to a medical appointment in Canistota, S.D., arrived at the hospital just before the wind began blowing fiercely, Baumann said.
Deadly North Dakota blizzards of 1941, 1966 see milestone anniversaries this month
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Marilyn Hagerty: 1941 blizzard hit home in North Dakota, Minnesota
The late M.A. Johnson of Larimore, N.D., wrote about the devastating winter storm in his book, “Fifty Years of Country Storekeeping.” Written By: Marilyn Hagerty | ×
Seventy people died in the blizzard that hit this area 80 years ago in March. Headlines in the Grand Forks Herald said three were from Grand Forks. Thirty-nine perished in North Dakota. And 28 died in Minnesota in the blizzard of 1941.
These days the talk has been of the extreme cold.
Often, when talk turns to blizzards, I turn to a book written by the late M.A. Johnson of Larimore, N.D. He was proprietor of a string of Johnson Stores in northeastern North Dakota. And after that blizzard, he wrote about it in his book, “Fifty Years of Country Storekeeping.”