Lasher’s ninety-year story
By ALLAN TINKER,
courtesy Rusty’s notes
Duane “Rusty” Norman Lasher was honored at a surprise birthday party at McClusky City Hall on November 12, with son Todd Lasher and his wife Vickie, grandchildren, spouses, and great-grandchildren hosting the event. Known to be a man with great communication skills, Lasher furnished a requested history of his life. “This is my story,” he writes. “I was born on November 9, 1932, on farm in McClusky Township, Sheridan County, arriving with red hair and weighing thirteen pounds. family history reveals his grandfather
Charles Lesja’s (old Norwegian version of Lasher) birth in Norway on March 17, 1879. This family moved to America in 1886-87, settling in Osseo, Wisconsin. “In 1903, Lesja came to North Dakota. He walked the prairie looking for a quarter of land for two weeks upon which to settle under the Homestead Act. The land he chose was five miles southeast of the city of McClusky, where he put up a tarpaper shack, then returned to Wisconsin to bring his bride Lena Olson to live there. Five children were born to this marriage.
