Sent in by her grandmother, Arlene Baker

Dawn was traveling in her white 1992 Ford Explorer from Chinook to Harlem to pick up her mother and take her to Billings to go shopping. They were going to bring Dawn's grandmother, who was visiting in Billings, back to Harlem. Dawn's future looked bright; she planned on studying nursing at MSU Northern that fall.

About six o'clock that morning, Dawn's vehicle drifted off the right side of Hwy. 2, a few miles west of Harlem. The car went into a ditch and hit the end of a culvert. She died instantly. She was 19 years old. Her cross stands at mile marker 420.3; her family usually decorates it with sunflowers - her favorite.

TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DAWN:

- She loves to laugh and to make her friends laugh a lot while cruising Main Street in Chinook. 
- She loves the falling rain and autumn and to get outdoors, away from urban places. 
- She is most sensitive to innocent animals, never resisting rescuing a helpless critter in danger. 
- She will speak up little in a large crowd but can't keep quiet in a car load of people. 
- The night is her companion and it is when her mind opens and runs away with so many inspiring thoughts that she sometimes can't sleep. 
- She loves to have fun and will do about anything to get a kick out of life, even if it takes a water fight in cars or a nasty dare. 
- She hates when people choose not to acknowledge an act of kindness or reflect a smile that's been given. 
- She likes many kinds of music, but her musical goals are to learn to play the fiddle and guitar. 
- She is nervous and very self conscious most of the time in school and hates reading to a class, no matter what grade or how big. 
- She is shy, but sometimes the wild side of her will venture out and the world may hear her roar.

August 15, 1983 -
August 31, 2002