Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

They were hard to miss standing near Highway 9, these two older gentlemen who might go unnoticed most of the time.

But they stand tall.

Meet Virgil "Buddy" Johnson and Dean Carlson, who were installing a new protective border on the east side of Pine Grove Cemetery in rural Roseau, just north of Skime.

There are three sextons, but Wayne Christianson is presently battling a health issue down in the Twin Cities.

On a recent evening just after completing the project, Dean Carlson, a 1947 model, explained that Jan and Mark Geroy at Geroy's Building helped figure out what would be best to purcha...