WATFORD CITY, N.D. – This is the story of a high school prom grand march that was truly grand.
Watford City senior Dakota Wollan told his parents he didn’t really have anyone he wanted to ask to his senior prom.This is a moment Madeline Miller will never forget.It was her first prom. Her date: her great grandson, Dakota Wollan.“I have this old truck she gave me, it’s a 1985 ford she handed down to me and I got it running again. So, I took that truck and made a sign,” Wollan explained.
“If she would have said no, I wouldn’t have gone, so thanks to her I got to make a memory for my last prom and her first prom,” Wollan said.“Walking beside my great grandson, listening to this music as we walked and people clapping and hollering,” she recalled as the best moments of the dance.“You were the stars of the night,” commented reporter Jody Kerzman.Wollan and Miller danced the first dance, and then Wollan took his date home.
Miller said she doesn’t remember if the school even held proms when she was a teenager. She admitted she only went to a year and a half of high school though. Her dad got sick, and she had to drop out of school to help on the farm.