A family of distinction

by Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake
| May 27, 2012 6:36 PM

The Memorial Day flag raising at 1 p.m. today (Memorial Day) at Conrad Cemetery’s veteran memorial honors Dorothy Orser Groose, her husband and her extended family of veterans with a military history stretching to the Battle of the Big Hole and the famous Bruce of Scotland in medieval times. Pictured below from left to right are William Thon, Raymond Thon, Edward “Ted” Houtz, Sydney Houtz Pugh, Robert Orser, Dorothy Orser Groose, John “Jack” Orser and William Groose.