Niederegger celebrate golden anniversary

Paul and Vicki (Seaman) Niederegger have been on a life adventure for 50 years together from Oct. 21 1971-2021.  Living on a ranch supporting domestic livestock and wildlife equally well is as close to God's wonderful creation and nature as one can get. Everyday is exciting and presents new challenges.

Paul came over to the United States and America as a teenager from Matrei, E. Tirol, Austria speaking German language but soon learned English very well.  He came from skiing down the European Alps to school six days a week to riding horses on the flat, hilly, and mostly treeless rolling prairies of north central Montana. He sponsored to citizenship by two uncles who had come to Americas to homestead south of Big Sandy in the early 1900's. they lost their savings when the banks went broke, so they started over with interesting traveling jobs and then settled on the West Bench area near Box Elder.

Vicki and Paul purchased the large Schiling-Pitsch ranch and farm in the north Harlem-Hogeland, Blaine County area shortly after marrying. They added Milk River valley irrigated land for hay production and a Hogeland area Belden ranch and farm as the years went by. They moved to the Harlem valley for their two sons, Paul and Aaron, to attend schooling and easier sports practices. They then went to Chinook for their grandchildren to attend school there easier.

Vicki traveled summers to create more interesting historical lessons for her students during her teaching years in the Malta and Harlem areas. The grandchildren have been the joy of Paul's life with their sports and other events entertaining us as they grew older. They are looking forward to great grandchildren and new generations to also raise local food for the world from the land.

Maybe more travel will materialize after this COVID-19 situation straightens out. We apologize to friends, neighbors, and associates that a public event was not held to celebrate Paul and Vicki's 50th anniversary in October, but we just didn't want anyone to be exposed to gathering traveling people. We limited ourselves to a family dinner event at the north Harlem ranch just as was done for granddaughter Hattie's wedding this past summer.

May the pandemic end soon so we can all get back to socializing and gathering together for church, club meeting, organizational projects, support, hugs, and fun again.