A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.
David Burton Olin, aged 94, died on December 20, 2022, in Two Harbors, Minnesota. David was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in 1928. He graduated from Greenway High School in Coleraine in 1946 and immediately enlisted in the US Navy. After his discharge, he attended Itasca Junior College in Coleraine for one year and then Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, graduating in 1952 with the highest distinction in civil engineering. He worked for two years for US Steel in Virginia, Minnesota, as a mine engineer before returning to Purdue to teach and to earn a Master’s Degree in structural engineering.
Kenneth John Daniels was born on December 6, 1945, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth, MN to John and Wilma (Barslou) Daniels. He passed away November 14, 2022, at home.
Mary Josephine (Gagnon) Gibbons of Grand Rapids, MN passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 in Grand Itasca Hospital at the age of 85.