Paul Shasky
Paul J. Shasky, 87, Rutland, ND, formerly Wahpeton, ND, died Thursday, January 19, 2012 at Sanford Health,Fargo,ND. The Funeral Service will be 2:00 PM, Tuesday, January 24, at Nordland Lutheran Church, Rutland, ND. There will be visitation one hour before the service at the Church on Tuesday. Interment will be at Rutland Cemetery, Rutland, ND. Vertin-Munson Funeral Home, Wahpeton, ND, is in charge of arrangements.
Paul Jerome Shasky was born November 7, 1924, at Rutland Township, ND, the son of Roman F. and Nina (Nelson) Shasky. He grew up and attended elementary school at Rutland and graduated from Forman High School in 1942. Paul served in the US Army in 1943, transferring to the US Air Corps, serving to November of 1945 as an airplane armored gunner on B-17s during WWII. After his honorable discharge he returned to the Rutland area where he farmed and attended Dakota Business College, Fargo, ND in 1947. He married Patricia Roscoe on July 25, 1950 at Forman, ND and served from August 1950 until August 1951 in the Korean War. He farmed with his wife near Rutland and then lived in Fargo where he hauled fuel oil. The family moved to Wahpeton, ND, where Paul managed the Deep Rock Gas Station from 1965 to 1971 and then operated Gulf Oil, later Wahpeton Discount Station until 1987. Paul and Pat moved back to their roots near Rutland where they farmed. Pat passed away January 21, 1998 and Paul continued to live near Rutland until this past year when he moved to live with his son Keith Shasky, near Wahpeton, due to poor health. Read More
The Rooster Crows — January 27, 2012
Mother Nature has had the mercury in the thermometer bobbing up and down like a pumpjack this past week, from 17 below zero last Thursday to 25 above this Tuesday, and the forecast is for more of the same in the days ahead. Well, it is January in North Dakota, after all. From 3 to 5 inches of new, wet snow, depending on where you stepped, fell on Rutland and vicinity last Sunday, January 22, the first significant precipitation event for this region since last August. The weather experts up in Fargo are pegging snowfall so far this Winter at a little over 10 inches, A little more than one-third of the 28 inches that is “normal” for this time of year, if North Dakota weather is ever normal, that is. But, here we are at the end of January, and only 2 weeks of what could be called winter weather, so far. If the 200 inches of snow predicted for the Winter of 2011-12 by one of the Farmer’s Almanacs last Fall is going to materialize before the arrival of Spring, stand by for February and March.
Edith Malpert of this community has been a patient in the Oakes Community Hospital since Thursday, January 12, receiving Treatment for a stubborn leg infection. Her many friends here wish her a speedy recovery and return home. Read More »