Wright/Cromwell news

Sue Walli Shelerud has retired after 31 years of teaching nursing at Lake Superior College in Duluth. She graduated from the St. Luke’s School of Nursing in 1980. She worked on the surgical unit at Miller Dwan and later went to St. Luke’s Hospital in the intensive care and obstetrics units. For the past 31 years she has been teaching nursing at LSC, a rewarding career, she said. She truly loved working with the students at LSC.

Her husband, Tom, is excited to have her join him in retirement. Sue is looking forward to enjoying lake life, spending more time with her parents, Sulo and Delores Walli, and her kids and grandkids. Eventually, she’d like to do some traveling.

Roland “Bud” Olson, 91, of Wright passed away Jan. 4. He was born March 11, 1929, in Duluth to Clifford and Esther Olson. At a young age his family moved to Tamarack. Bud grew up living on the family farm. He was active with 4-H. He met his future wife, Joan Dorman, on Finn Road, and they grew up as teenage neighbors. They were married after high school in 1951 in Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Wright.

Marion Kukkola Reed is looking for an address for Shirley Mattson Carlson. She was living in Cloquet when her husband had been ill. Are they back in Cromwell? Marion sent a card, but it came back.

Doug and Bonnie Suhonen’s oldest grandson, Wyatt Jordan, is headed to Georgia for Army basic training. They are going to miss him, but also are so proud of him.

I had a recent request for the books that Margaret Olson Webster has published and I’m happy to report that I have several copies of each book: “Life Times Six,” “Are all the Heroes Gone?” and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cemetery.” Let me know your address and I can get one to you.

Margaret and I were best friends from first grade through graduation from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 1961. So many fond memories. We stay in contact by phone, albeit less frequently recently. I hope she knows how special she is and I hope the residents of the area realize and appreciate a talented author and artist and her service to the communities of Wright, Tamarack and Cromwell.

The Cromwell-Wright school board accepted the donation from Brian and Pauly Granholm of $3,518.50 to cover the cost of the rest of the flagpole installation. I hope we can all drive by the school and take a look at this new installation.

I’m still looking for the person in charge of the Lakeview Cemetery in Wright (not to be confused with Lakeside Cemetery on South Finn Road), willing to take a monetary donation for the upkeep of the cemetery.

Happy 100th birthday on Jan. 10 to Sarah Libbon’s dad, Harley Hanke.

Dennis Lowry writes that he has many memories of Anna Esbjornson and Ellen Peterson: He used to go hunting on Esbjornson’s property and Anna sometimes came to his house to visit his mom. She was afraid of the little dog, so that made it try all the more to bite her ankles. We would always make a point of visiting Carl and Ellen on their farm. She always served coffee and ice cream. I seem to recall that Ellen had the first car in Wright with an automatic transmission. And of course she worked so hard at the co-op.

That’s all the news from the Edge of Wright.

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