Bringing up Ericksdahl brings to mind John Boyles some of you may remember. His mother taught at Ericksdahl and he had a sister Lanell who now lives down the street from me.
She went to Lueders for a year but choose to go back to Ericksdahl.
John may have finished at Lueders, some of you in his class help me on this. He has passed away a few years ago. I think he had brain cancer. He was at one time the Superintendent at Aspermont. I met him there when Knox City and Aspermont played one another at the Aspermont homecoming.
Provided by:... Carol Felts, Class of 53 - April 17, 2007
I was raised in the Ericksdahl community which is located about 10 miles due east of Stamford and north of Lueders.
The red brick Swenson school building was located about 3/4 miles east of the Bethel Lutheran church in the Ericksdahl community.
I attended Swenson school in the third, fourth and fifth grades. Mrs. Russell was the teacher, Ernestine Segestrom Heller was in my class, some of the others attending were my sister, Jane King, Roger and Sylvia Hokanson, & Warren Olsen.
In the fall of 1949 I started attending Lueders having gone to Paint Creek the 3 prior years. A station wagon driven by Richard Nauret and later Ernest Armstrong picked up the students in our part of the Swenson school district and transported the younger children to the Swenson school and taking the older students to where we met the Lueders School bus at the highway where we traveled to Lueders. Later the Lueders bus extended their route and picked up all the students.
Time has taken it's toll but I think this was when they stopped having school at Swenson and the Swenson school district was divided between Stamford, Avoca and Lueders.
The Berryhill Community and school, in Shackleford County, was located east of the Ericksdahl community. Rockdale community is located about 17 miles east of Stamford in Haskell County, at one time they had a school and two churches, Lindsey Chapel church of Christ and the Baptist Church. I attended the Church of Christ along with Mary Von Cobb and W. H. McKeever.
Paint Creek, located in Haskell County near Lake Stamford, is still having school.
Provided by:... Rayleen "King" Pittcock, Class of 53 - April 18, 2007
