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!NAME: Mitchell, Marie [1919]
!Grand Portage B.I.A. Enrollment, 1919:243/247
!U.S. CENSUS: Aitkin County, 1870, family 3 3, 1/2 breed, at home, illiterate,
cannot read or write
!MCT: Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Base Rolls [Abt 1936]:4075, blood quantum 3/4,
listed at Aitkin,
Minn.
!OBIT: Bemidji Pioneer, 10 Dec 1993
Mike Mitchell, 79, of Cass Lake died Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1993, at St. Luke's
MeritCare Hospital in Fargo.
Funeral services are 11 a.m. Saturday at Christian and Missionary Alliance
Church in Cass Lake, with Pastor Leonard Fineday officiating. Interment will
be at Lakeview Cemetery near Boy River, under the direction of Cease Family
Funeral Home in Cass Lake.
Active pallbaerers will be Kenn and Earl Mitchell, Willis and Ron Brunette,
Pat Drumbeater and Robert Mitchell Sr. Honorary pallbearers are Ben, John,
Tom, Frank, and William Mitchell and Wally Humphrey.
Mr. Mitchell was born Sept. 14, 1914, in Inguadona Township of Cass County to
Charles and Emma Mitchell. He attended boarding school in Tomah, Wis., then
returned to the Remer area where he logged. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in
August 1941 and served in the European Theater during World War II. Following
his discharge in September 1945, he returned to the Remer area and resumed
logging. He married Helen Cummings in 1945 at Remer, and they later divorced.
He worked for a time at the pulp mill in Remer and later logged in the Orr
area. He retured in 1979 and moved to the Cass Lake area in 1980. He was a
member of the Leech Lake Honor Guard and the Mitchell Drum Group and sang in
many area powwows.
He is survived by three sons, Vern of Cass Lake, Joe of Ashland, Wisl, and
Terry of St. Paul; two duaghters, Bernice Mitchell of Cass Lake and Maxine
Manypenny of Minneapolis; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; four
brothers, Ben (Lucy) Mitchell of Sugar Point, Tom Mitchell of Longville, John
(Mary) Mitchell of Minneapolis; and two sisters, Dorothy Whipple of Minneapolis
and Maude Kegg of Mille Lacs.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, George, Bert and
Frank, and two sisters, Julia and
Rose.
!this is apparently the same person as (AFN:8Q72-LV)