Death of a Dinsdale

Grandma's brother's funeral was Monday of this week. It was only the second I have ever attended. Pat was the second of grandm's two brother's to die. She and her baby sister 'Babe' are the surviving members of the original family. Grandma passed the funeral with marked courage though she was obviously troubled by concern for Pat's 'eternal reward'. Pat was a smoker, drinker, and spoke with the harshness characteristic of a Montana farmer. In Grandma's book, that's grounds for eternal punishment.

Cleer Creek Cemetary is the resting place of most of our Dinsdale relatives and their family. There are maybe 50 head-stones total in the plot that is about a two acre square. It sits on a bluff outside of Red-Lodge about 10 miles. To the south and the west the Bear-Tooth mountains rise abruptly and magestically out of a plain of golden rolling hills. The setting is ideal as a resting place for the dead.