Susan Stone from Condon said, "I think my most memorable Christmas was the gathering of family shortly before my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. We spent a Christmas in Portland with almost all of the family under one roof."
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Connie Rose from Cour d'Alene, Idaho, was in Seeley Lake visiting Boyd and Helen Gossard. Rose said her most memorable Christmas was when she was about nine years old. She had gone with her family to visit her grandfather, whose birthday was on Christmas Eve. She said, "When we came in the back door we heard lots of little tiny feet on the tin roof and Grandpa talking to Santa Claus as he was leaving. We just missed him! It was all so magical. I was just about the age where I wasn't going to believe anymore, but that cinched it."
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Connie's husband Marvin Rose had a funny story to relate. He said one year he was in New Mexico visiting his grandparents for the holidays. At the time, both his sister and sister-in-law were pregnant and they had heard about some do-it-yourself urine test that would tell them the sex of their babies by the color change. He said, "It involved drain cleaner and bleach and it turned out the fumes ran us all out of the house. My dad had asthma and he almost ended up in the hospital because of it. Needless to say, that was very memorable."
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Little Bird, who works at the Grizzly Claw in Seeley Lake, said her favorite memory from Christmas was the year she received a toboggan. She said, "I believe I was 12 years old. The toboggan was made of beautiful wood and it had red cushions and we went right away to the toboggan hill and we played all afternoon."
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Ron Pales from Crescent Meadows said his most memorable Christmas was the first one he spent with his daughter, granddaughter and grandson in Kalispell. He and his wife drove up from Missoula. But he added his most memorable times are in Seeley Lake. "We always come up here for Thanksgiving. We've been coming for 30-some years."
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Rachelle Harman from Seeley Lake said her most memorable Christmas present was a Ginny doll with wooden furniture. Though she enjoyed playing with it for many years, she didn't know what happened to it after she outgrew it. It turned out her grandmother had saved it and gave it back to her when Rachelle was 30 years old. She said, "So now I still have the Ginny doll with all her clothes, all her furniture. And it's now considered an antique and is quite valuable."
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Kim Murphy said, "I received a Cuddly Dudley when I was probably four years old from my grandparents. It was pretty exciting." She explained a Cuddly Dudley was "a giant stuffed St. Bernard-type dog. It was huge – like about three or four feet."
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