Marissa's Creations!

This is what Marissa does when she is not working at the hospital or keeping house or having fun with Tanner.  Just beautiful.  

Jimmy Jumps High

Zak and his Family

Everyone Smile!!

Linda and Gary 36 Year Anniversary

How time flies, beautiful family.  I told Linda that Richard and I only had 37 years.  Linda married young.  Richard and I were 26 and 28.  

New Pad for Charli, Amy and Joe

Joe and Amy found a home to rent in the San Diego State College Area which will be ok traveling for their jobs in Kearney Mesa and Sharp Hospital areas.  

Little Charli tries walking in and out.  And she has various babysitters.  One day she visited her Grandpa's office and was declared "Boss".

I wish we had pix of the inside of the house!!  Cute San Diego Bungalow like I lived in at one time.  And yard work looks easy.

Massey's Stay in a Yert

Kelsi is in to Swimming

"Cool" Water and Wave Water Park with the Masseys

Happy Anniversary for Camber and James, 26 Years!

Portland Children's Museum

San Diego Temple with Jacob

Jacob is going to Buenos Aires, Argentina for his mission in October.  He will be serving at the San Diego Temple before he goes.  All the Carlstons and James were able to go to the Temple with him.

Pioneer Trek for Jimmy Hardy

Dave's Funeral

Steven, Jeanne, Brian and Norma drove over to the funeral in Vernal.  Norma said that when Jeanne viewed Dave she said, "That looks just like my Dad."  And she said he really did.  He probably had lost weight and his face was thinner.

After talking to Charm for a month almost every day I finally get to see her.  She is the one in the dark blue and pearls.  She is the wife of Lance,  the son of Dorothy's little brother Jimmy.  Shaunie, in the light hair, is Lance's little sister and she lives in Salt Lake City and her husband is an attorney.  

I think it was June 23 when Dave was found with a heartbeat of 22 and taken to the hospital by his friend Jake.  The niece and nephew were called.  They have been up there a lot this past spring celebrating Dave's birthday and their wedding anniversary and recently they came up to help them set all their patio furniture out for the summer.  Dave and Dorothy have been very good to them over the years and they love them dearly.  So after they were called some or all of them have been at the home for the last month.  

Jeanne, Norma, and Brian,  all remarked how beautiful and kind everyone was to them at the services and lunch. Jeanne said they all seemed so happy.  Dorothy will be living in a senior care home in Vernal.  A lot of other decisions will need to be made and they will be the ones that will have to make them.  

Jeanne said Dorothy knew who she was immediately and they talked.

Brian gave the Family Prayer before the service and Steven gave the eulogy.  One of the niece's read Carole's message, two nephews spoke and Dave's friend Jake.

Jeanne was impressed with the beautiful day and the fluffy clouds.  Norma explained to me that it was up on a hill so when you looked out the fluffy clouds is what you see.

Lance gave the prayer at the grave but I am not sure if that is him or not.

Glendive Classmate Joanie

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Thursday, July 19, 2018

Joan Kathleen Beres Hughes completed her 85 year life journey July 13, 2018, in the company of family members.

Joan was the eldest child of Joseph Sebastian and Appolonia Mary (Grasl) Beres, born in Dickinson, N.D. on March 19, 1933. She was raised and schooled primarily in Dickinson, moving during her high school years with her family to Glendive where she graduated from high school in 1951. It was during her time in Glendive that she met her future husband, a tall, slender Irishman named Thomas William Hughes. Not long after, the two were married on May 9, 1954 in a chapel at Hamilton Air Force Base near San Francisco. Four children resulted from their union.

Despite being raised in rural environments, Joan was enamored with big city life. She very much enjoyed working in Chicago and San Francisco for several years. But with the arrival of children, Joan ably stepped into her mother role, taking care of young children and supporting Tom’s evolving banking and aviation careers. She endured many household moves, first during Tom’s military service, and later during his banking career that took them from Missoula to Helena and later Glendive. Education was important to her and Tom, and all of her children were afforded the opportunity of a secondary education.

She and Tom ultimately settled in Billings in 1988 after Tom’s retirement, where she spent her final thirty years overseeing her flock of children and a growing population of grandkids. Joan loved to travel and she and Tom visited many of our country’s nicer cities. She was particularly fond of New Orleans and San Antonio, where she spent many trips enjoying her passion – music. Joan compiled a large inventory of Dixieland jazz and big band music that played frequently throughout her home and she shared her music willingly with several online DJs. She was an avid gardener with a wonderful green thumb and she was quite adept at using computers until her final days. People who knew Joan considered her a classy lady with beautiful eyes and a resemblance to Elizabeth Taylor. She was an incredible cook and many of her homemade recipes have been shared with friends and family and will survive for future generations.

Joan was an avid reader of novels and spent many hours sewing outfits and crocheting gifts for family members. She would be the first to tell you she lived a wonderful life, and she will be missed by many, far and wide.

Joan was preceded in death by her parents, Joe and Appie; her best-friend and brother, George Mathias (d. 1986); and brother, Joseph “Jack” Jacob (d. 1997).

She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Thomas; her children, Michael (Marlene Mathews) Hughes of Plano, Texas, Brian (Kerry Ware) Hughes of Hayden, Idaho, Deborah (Tim) Crennen of St. Cloud, Minn., and Tracey Gatlin of Belfield, N.D.; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends, all of whom were dear to her heart.

Service and burial arrangements are pending. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Greater Glendive Community Foundation.

About My Brother Dave

About My Brother Dave,

                               By Carole Fuqua, Dave’s youngest sister.

My last words to Dave were, "I love you, now just try to relax, you have done a great job keeping it all together."  But he couldn't relax, partly because that's the way he is, and partly because of his illness.

But today, I want to tell you about Dave as my brother.  There were 12 years between us, and three other sisters, so when I was 5 he was 17. I remember the music he played over and over ..."the girl that I marry will have to be as sweet and as soft as a nursery".  That's the part I remember.  He often took me on his dates in high school and she was pretty, but when he went to college and met Dorothy, his dreams really had come true.

 From them on whenever I played dress-up, my name was always Dorothy, as I, too thought she was beautiful and sweet and soft as a nursery.  Dave told me later she was also pretty tough as a sheepherder’s daughter could be.  And Janet says the music he played over and over and over the first summer home from college was “I wonder who’s kissing her now?”

You couldn't know Dave without fun, funny and happy being in the equation. When he put me on his handlebars to deliver the morning papers, it could also be exciting.  I often liked to sleep in his bed, because we could turn off the toggle switch on the radio with a string by using our toes and we could stick our gum on the metal headboard.  

One day he was tickling me so hard my mom came after him with a broom to stop him.  David was mischief and a tease, Janet remembers being his sidekick when they would climb up to the attic window and threw snowballs at all those passing below.

He used to announce the high school football games on the radio but not all the parents thought his offside comments about their sons were as funny as he did.

When he brought Dorothy to Miles City to run the Anderson's store, they had a cute little apartment over the store and my favorite photo is of Dave pretending to blow his nose in Dorothy's beautiful long hair.

I can just see him and his older brother, Dick, setting out the doll buggies and dolls for Christmas morn for all their little sisters.  Mom said that was what they did and I can imagine the fun he had with that.

Dave and Dorothy Serving!

Being the last sister, my memories of childhood with everyone there were few but happy. When life got really serious and my own boys began missions and college, Dave was always there to open his pocket book, send clothes and keep an interest in them. He escorted my Dave when he received his endowments in the Idaho Falls Temple for his mission.  David cared and he showed it.

Time has flown and when it is all over, all we have left are our memories.

We are so glad our memories of our brother Dave are happy ones.