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On this date in 1968 the Bismarck Tribune reported on Dr. Lowell Gess and his family. Lowell, his wife Ruth, and three of their six children had recently moved to Bismarck and were excited to have the remaining children join them by Christmas. Normally such an event would not make the news, but the Gess family was a bit unusual. The family had just moved to North Dakota from Sierra Leone, where Dr. Gess served as a medical missionary. ....

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