Monica J. Provost
Monica Josephine Provost reached the end of her 97-year earthly journey on November 18, 2022. She was born to Arthur and Genevieve Kenyon in Brainerd, March 19, 1925, the youngest of three girls. She graduated from the Brainerd High School. She migrated over to Crosby where she worked a couple of different jobs and was even named Miss C-I in 1948. She worked in an ammunition plant in Nebraska during the war, after which she returned to Minnesota to marry the love of her life, Merrill Provost. Together they would raise three children. When the mines began to close on the Cuyuna Range, they move...