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

Roseau - Clarice (Kelly) Christianson Falk was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota on October 4, 1915 and grew up in Underwood, Minnesota. She loved school and graduated valedictorian of her class. Living through the Depression was one of the defining features of her life. Her good-hearted father owned the town's grocery store in which she worked, and found it hard to collect what was owed to him. She earned her way through the two year teacher's training at Moorhead State and became a supervisor of student teachers in the MS training school, Gunderson School near Moorhead. One day, in walked C...