Twelfth Generation (Continued)
Family of Laurence Albee DARE (564) & Anna Delia FOURNIER
996. Alan Dale DARE (Laurence Albee11, Arthur Newman10, Alfred9, Ann Childeroy COMPTON8, Thomas7, Ann6, John5, John4, Tristram3, John “the Elder”2, Edward1). Born on 14 Aug 1915 in Sherburne, Minnesota, USA.

- Dare, Alan D. b. 14 Aug 1915 Sherburne Co. Mother's Maiden Name Fournier

RESEARCH NOTES:
- sources vary on birth: 14 Aug 1915 or 3 Aug 1915?
997. Charles Fournier “Chuck” DARE (Laurence Albee11, Arthur Newman10, Alfred9, Ann Childeroy COMPTON8, Thomas7, Ann6, John5, John4, Tristram3, John “the Elder”2, Edward1) . Born on 9 Sep 1922 in Elk River, Sherburne, Minnesota, USA. Charles Fournier “Chuck” died in Monticello-Big Lake Nursing Home, Sherburne, Minnesota, USA, on 15 Dec 2008; he was 86. Buried abt 2008 in St Andrew’s Cemetery.

- 2008 U.S. Social Security Death Index [from familysearch.org]
First Name: Charles
Middle Name: Fournier
Last Name: Dare
Name Suffix:
Birth Date: 9 September 1922
Social Security Number: 470-22-2147
Place of Issuance: Minnesota
Last Residence: Sherburne, Minnesota
Zip Code of Last Residence: 55330
Death Date : 15 December 2008
Estimated Age at Death: 86

- “Charles Fournier Dare, 86, the third-generation editor and publisher of the Star News, Elk River, Minn., died Dec. 15. He is survived by his daughter and a sister.
Dare, whose grandfather acquired full ownership of the newspaper in 1882, became editor of the paper in 1951 and was publisher for the last seven years before its sale in 1982 to former Minnesota governor and former H.B. Fuller president Elmer L. Andersen.
The Star News described the man known locally as Chuck as soft-spoken, fascinated by machines and interested in literary matters. "The newspaper seemed a natural to satisfy both interests," Dare wrote in a 1981 column. But first he studied auto …”

- http://archives.ecmpublishers.info/2008/12/23/obituaries-1224/
Obituaries 12/24 [2008]
Posted on December 23, 2008
Charles F. Dare, 86, of Elk River, died Monday, Dec 15, 2008.
He was a World War II Navy veteran. Mr. Dare was a graduate of Dunwoody, where he studied auto mechanics, in 1942, and a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism, class of 1950. He was a third generation editor and publisher of the Star News, past president of the Elk River Rotary 1964–1965, long-time member of Elk River Legion and long-time member of the Elk River Baptist Church. The funeral service was held Saturday, Dec. 20 at Central Lutheran Church in Elk River. Dare’s Funeral Home. Interment was at St. Andrew’s Cemetery, Elk River. Dare’s Funeral Home served the family. He is survived by his daughter, Jenny Sue (David) Kotaska, of Champlin; sister, Donna Wiethoff; and many nieces, nephews and friends. Mr. Dare was preceded in death by his wife, Sally; parents, Laurence and Anna (Fournier); brother, Alan; and sister, Mary Dare. Memorials are preferred to Elk River Baptist Church, 1800 Eighth St., Elk River, Minn. 55330. [other retropective articles also published]

- Obituary for Charles F. Dare
Published in Star Tribune on December 16, 2008
Dare, Charles F. Age 86, of Elk River, passed away on Dec 15, 2008. Preceded in death by his wife, Sally; parents, Laurence & Anna (Fournier); brother, Alan and sister, Mary Dare. Survived by his daughter, Jenny Sue (David) Kotaska of Champlin, MN; and sister, Donna Weithoff; also survived by many nieces, nephews, and many friends. Graduate of Dunwoody, Auto Mechanic, 1942 WW II Navy Veteran. U of M Graduate, School of Journalism, Class of 1950, Third generation Editor and Publisher of the Elk River Star News Past president of the Elk River Rotary 1964-1965, long-time member of Elk River Legion. Long- time member of the Elk River Baptist Church. Funeral Service 11 AM Sat., Dec. 20, 2008 at Central Lutheran Church, 1103 School St., Elk River. Visitation 4-8 PM Friday at Dare's Funeral Home, 805 Main St. and 1 hour prior to service at the church on Sat. Interment St. Andrew's Cemetery, Elk River. Memorials preferred to Elk River Baptist Church, 1800 8th St. 55330.

- from his daughter: Around 2:30am, Dec. 15th, David and I were awakened by my cell phone. We knew who it was, and I started crying before I even answered it. It was the Monticello/Big Lake Nursing Home calling to tell me that my father, Charles Dare, had passed away. … And after losing my mom five months earlier … Of course I still miss them both very much! I loved my father with all my heart, and he is still with me in spirit.

RESEARCH NOTES
- from another researcher: - Charles Fournier DARE Parents: Laurence Albee DARE and Anna Delia FOURNIER.
He was married to Sally Ann UNKNOWN
On 14 Sep 1968 when Charles Fournier “Chuck” was 46, he married Sally Anne BRAINARD in First Presbyterian Church, St Cloud. Born on 23 Oct 1940 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA. Sally Anne died in Monticello-Big Lake Nursing Home, on 9 Jul 2008; she was 67.

- Sally authored a book - Excerpts from Anna... Letters in the Attic, written by Sally Anne Dare:
“Laurence's father was Arthur Newman Dare who had combined two local newspapers about 1880 into the Sherburne County Star News. He was its first editor and publisher. Laurence became the second, and his son Charles Fournier Dare, my husband, was the third.
In the attic of our home on Main Street [Elk River Minnesota], which Arthur was building in 1880, I have learned far more about the ancestry of my husband and our daughter, Jenny Sue, than all the facts told me by the family to date. In one of hundreds of letters to May Dare, saved in the attic before 1900, is mentioned the family's private nickname for the Star News: it was known as the GFJ, or the "Great Family Journal."
I also learned the reference to the house they built and in which we now live as "The Dare Mansion". I hadn't realized that while Arthur worked in the state capitol between 1903 and 1907, the Dares had moved to St. Paul when Arthur (or AND) was State Printer after representing Sherburne County for three terms in the state legislature, the last as speaker, the three St. Paul residences were therefore known as "The Dare Mansion," in their turn.”....
“As an adopted child, I had a mother, Jennie, who cared for me, taught me and met my child needs. Years after she passed away, I learned that my birth mother likewise wanted to meet me, and with professional help, at last met Ann, and my three half sisters, Becky, Pat and Mary Lou, who all mean a great deal to me.
When I married Charlie, I had a stepmother-in-law, Rose. Still I longed to learn and share with my husband more about his mother. Anna had died unexpectedly, leaving three young children. Charlie, who was only three and a half, has no clear memory of her, nor does his sister Donna Mary who was just seven months old. Their brother Alan, at 11, remembers her clearly, and was old enough to experience a powerful sense of grief to this day.”

- Sally died July 9, 2008, and a long article was published in the Star News:
http://archives.ecmpublishers.info/2008/07/22/dare...limpse-into-history/

Dare’s work gave glimpse into history
Posted on July 22, 2008 by admin

A funeral service was held July 14 for Sally E. Dare, 67, an Elk River
resident since 1964 and the wife of third-generation Sherburne County
Star News publisher, Charles Fournier Dare.
She died July 9 at the Monticello-Big Lake Nursing Home, where she battled dementia for four years.


by Jim Boyle
Editor
A funeral service was held July 14 for Sally E. Dare, 67, an Elk River resident since 1964 and the wife of third-generation Sherburne County Star News publisher, Charles Fournier Dare.
She died July 9 at the Monticello-Big Lake Nursing Home, where she battled dementia for four years.
Sally was the writer and poet who wove together love letters her mother-in-law, Anna Fournier Dare wrote to Laurence Albee Dare, the second generation publisher of the Star News, during their courtship. And in a second edition she included the letters and writings from Anna’s 19 years of marriage before her untimely death in 1926. It includes a section called: “Talking to Jesus.”
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This award-winning book gave readers a glimpse into life in Elk River and Otsego during the early 1900s, and, poignantly offered her husband insight into the personality and character of the mother he never knew. Anna died when he was only 3 years old.
Copies of the second edition of “Anna” were given away at the funeral performed at Central Lutheran Church to anyone who wanted a copy or agreed to give one to someone else.
Sally would have wanted that, according to the Rev. Dick Erickson, her counselor of 20 years and a family friend long afterward who gave her eulogy. He described Sally as a giver and someone with a brilliant mind. He recalled exchanging poetic phrases with her. One of hers that she liked in particular and practiced throughout her existence went like this:
“Life was meant to be given away.”
Sally, a talented instrumentalist who played the violin and bassoon in her college orchestra while in the ninth grade, played the piano at Guardian Angels during worship times and upon request, using only a list of hymn titles without the music.
She got some of her greatest enjoyment from genealogy. The adopted daughter of a St. Cloud couple didn’t just research her own family history, though. She would research other people’s, too.
“She was a giver by nature,” Erickson said. “She would go out of her way to  give away so much.”
She was born in Minneapolis Oct. 23, 1940, and adopted several months later by Dr. and Mrs. Albert Brainard of St. Cloud. Dr. Brainard was head of the physical education department of St. Cloud State College for 37 years. Sally attended Riverview School on the state college campus through the ninth grade, and graduated from St. Cloud Tech High in 1958. She went on to graduate from St Cloud State College in 1962, majoring in social studies and Spanish, and spent two months in Spain.
During her sophomore year at SCSC she was editor of the college paper, The Chronicle, and later worked for awhile at the St. Cloud Times. She came to Elk River in 1964 to look for work. While baby sitting for one of Chuck’s sisters, her experience in journalism became known and she was connected with Laurence Dare to help the aging editor while his son was on vacation. She and Chuck eventually met when she was asked back to help again.
“I remember being driven to help her,” Chuck said, noting his role in  helping her land a job at the Minnetonka Herald in Wayzata, where she did reporting for a couple of years.  Later she worked five years as a psych-tech at Anoka State Hospital.
She became Sally Dare on Sept. 14, 1968, at First Presbyterian Church in St Cloud. Their daughter, Jenny Sue Kotaska, was born March 29, 1973.
Since Sally’s mother had died over 10 years earlier, Sally felt the need to locate her birth family, and the search became reality when the social worker at Children’s Home Society located her birth mother in San Francisco, along with three sisters and others.
“It was a thrilling time in late 1973 when she met her birth mother for the first time at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and later when she went to California to meet her sisters,” Chuck wrote.
In the 1970s Sally managed the Elk River Office Supply, and sales increased enough that she won a trip to Hawaii for her husband and daughter from the supplier, Boise-Cascade Co.
In the 1980s after the Star News and office supply were sold to Elmer Andersen and ECM Publishers and her husband retired, they finally got a primitive computer and over the years she wrote hundreds of poems, many of which are suitable for publication.
It was during this time she had discovered dozens of letters written by Anna during her courtship days, 1903–1907. These became the subject of “Anna — Letters from the Attic” (1996), and its expanded edition (2003).
With updated computers, Sally turned her interests to genealogy.  She loved the work until one day she started losing her abilities and said, “I feel like I have a hole in my brain!” It was the start of a dementia.
“I’ve been grieving for over five years,” Chuck said.
The funeral was held Monday, July 14 at Central Lutheran Church in Elk River, with details handled by Dare’s Funeral Home, officiated by the Rev. Paul Johannson, with the Rev. Erickson giving the sermon and eulogy. Scripture was read and comments made by the Rev. Wesley White, pastor of Elk River Baptist Church, who visited her and prayed with Sally almost every Sunday.
She is survived by her husband, Charles, of Elk River; daughter, Jenny Sue (David) Kotaska of Champlin; brother, Tim Brainard, of California; three half-sisters in California, Mary Lou Valesano, Pat Oku, and Becky Leenders; her birth mother, Ann Fuller, of Cambridge, Minn., and many friends.
They had one child:
i.
Jenny Sue DARE (1973-)
998. Donna Mary DARE (Laurence Albee11, Arthur Newman10, Alfred9, Ann Childeroy COMPTON8, Thomas7, Ann6, John5, John4, Tristram3, John “the Elder”2, Edward1) . Born on 15 Sep 1925 in Sherburne, Minnesota, USA. Donna Mary died on 25 Aug 2013; she was 87.

- Dare, Donna Mary b. 15 Sep 1925 Sherburne Co. Mother's Maiden Name Fournies
- 2013 Aug 26, 2013, posted on Facebook by niece Jenny with photo:
“My gentle, loving, sweet, caring, funny, adorable aunt, Donna Mary Dare Hafften Wiethoff, passed from this life to the heart of Love and into the Kingdom of Heaven early last evening. After emergency surgery last Sunday, she looked like she was all set to transfer to rehab, but a swift and sudden cardiac arrest took her from us early. Her five daughters, one son, my cousin and I are stunned and leaning on all the promises of God. (Written by my cousin, Ann.. with a few changes.)”
Donna Mary first married HAFFTEN. Born ca 1925.
Donna Mary second married WIETHOFF.
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