MAZA, N.D. — The gem of a small farming group.

That is how a farmer is being remembered after being the sufferer of a triple-murder suicide Monday, Aug. 29, proper in the course of a harvest.

Up on a rural hillside in southwest Towner County, Pat Traynor and his son Patrick stopped to wish as they regarded on the farm area of their good good friend and looking buddy Doug Dulmage.

Patrick had simply rode with Dulmage in his mix a number of days in the past.

“He was a pillar of the group, it is a whole devastating loss,” Pat Traynor mentioned. “He epitomized what it was wish to be within the nation, by way of friendliness, kindness, empathy, folks serving to one another.”

The husband and father of two women was shot and killed Monday night whereas combining wheat.

Three of his farm fingers have been additionally discovered shot to loss of life a couple of third of a mile throughout the sector.

These employees are associated to one another, however police haven’t recognized them.

All 4 our bodies have been discovered round 6 p.m., when the household of one of many farmhands got here to test on their cherished one who had not come residence.

Investigators aren’t disclosing any info right now, and, will not touch upon who pulled the set off, however Dulmage’s household has been knowledgeable it was not him.

“It is such a terror act, it is an act of terror you do not take into consideration up right here,” Pat Traynor mentioned.

Dulmage was the present president of the Benson County Farm Bureau and a primary responder in his hometown of Leeds.

Pat Traynor remembers when Dulmage responded to his Fargo neighborhood throughout the flood of 2009.

“(H)e received there at about 4 within the morning, and he labored for about 48 hours nonstop for our complete neighborhood, and arrange pumps as a result of all of us thought we have been going to lose our neighborhood,” he recalled.

Dulmage is being remembered as a quiet servant, a person with an amazing coronary heart, at all times giving hope to others.

“He was a beneficiant soul,” Pat Traynor mentioned. “He did issues beneath the radar. He was extra of a quiet giver, but when he did have his title on one thing, it was solely to encourage extra folks to present.”

A small farming group mourning the lack of its gem. Different farmers plan on serving to Dulmage’s household plow his fields.

“If we may all be a bit extra like Doug, the world could be a a lot better place,” Pat Traynor mentioned.