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

By rights, Dorothy Heppner, a Dust Bowl kid from the Dakotas who moved to rural Warroad in 1937, shouldn't be 92.

She should be long dead.

She was burned out of her home, escaping with so little clothes on that early January morning in 1948 that she might have been mistaken for a burlesque queen had the neighboring farmers spotted her scantily dressed as she dashed out to the barn barefooted in the snow while carrying her one-year-old child, Ron.

And then, in 1955, she was riding shotgun in her husband's pickup truck after chasing sheep that day when a beer truck broadsided the passenger d...