1203 Bixby AVenue

This home was built in 1910.

Reese Loranger was the resident here in 1920-1921. Mrs. Reese Loranger won several prizes at the county fair in the fall of 1921. The dining room division of the Ladies’ Aid of the Presbyterian Church is entertaining this afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. E. Reynolds, 805 Bemidji avenue, in honor of Mrs. Reese Loranger, who is soon to leave for her new home in Duluth. Mr. Loranger had been connected with the Bemidji Box Co. until recently. He will now be employed at Duluth. (Sept 27, 1921)

J.D.Winter (1927-1928)

Wm. H. Strand (1934-35)

Mrs. Ella Conger (1937-38)

Andrew Enstad, J. Vincent Johnson (1939-40)

Louis Caskey (1942); also Gerald Caskey, principal; and Kenneth Casey, salesman.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wild moved to 1203 Bixby Avenue in 1945. They were joined by their entire family for the celebration of their 65th wedding anniversary in September 1962. Open house was held at their home on Bixby Ave. Mr. Wild was very active in spite of his advanced age and planted his garden shortly before his death in June 1964.

Alice D. Nelson, a nurse at Bemidji Hospital was the next resident and was there until about 1989, when she moved to an apartment.

Mrs. Nordahl Nelson of Pinewood moved to Bemidji to spend the winter months with her daughter, Miss Alice Nelson, 1203 Bixby avenue in November 1967.