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Elenore A. Smith
Oct 5, 2009
Elenore was born July 26, 1919, to Ole and Manda Nelson Vidden. She grew up and attended school in Moorhead, graduating from Moorhead High School. After high school she attended North Dakota Agricultural College, now North Dakota State University. In October of 1942, she married Arthur Smith in Moorhead, MN. Together they made their home in Moorhead. Elenore worked at...
Bessie Anderson
Oct 4, 2009
Bessie Irene Anderson was born October 31, 1909 to Carl J. and Mary V. Anderson in Hawley, MN. Bessie was baptized and confirmed in Highland Grove Lutheran Church, Hitterdal, MN. She grew up on the family farm and attended country school Dist. 107 and Hawley High School. She enjoyed music lessons, sewing and handwork. When her parents built a new...
Elizabeth Bergford
Oct 2, 2009
Elizabeth J. Bergford, age 99, died October 2, 2009 in Mesa, Arizona.Elizabeth Jeannette Brown was born December 5, 1909 in Grant County, Minnesota to Eli Webster and Mary Susan Godward Brown. She married Harold Bergford in Fergus Falls on December 24, 1935.She received a B.S. degree from Moorhead State Teachers College and a M.S. degree from North Dakota State University....
Daryle D. Wasfaret
Sep 29, 2009
Daryle Dennis Wasfaret, 64, died September 29, 2009, at his home after a long battle with cancer.Daryle was born November 26, 1944 to Gilman and Myrtle Wasfaret in Ada, MN. He grew up, attended school and graduated in Felton, MN. He joined the U.S Air Force and served his duties as an aircraft mechanic during Vietnam at Okinawa and returned...
Jean F. Stienstra
Sep 27, 2009
Jean Fulton Frame Scheede Blakeway StienstraJean Fulton Frame was born May 27th, 1921, in Big Sandy, Montana to Maude Marion Pearson and Archibald Templeton Frame. She and her sister Dorothy grew up on the Frame Ranch north of Big Sandy.Jean graduated High School at Big Sandy in 1940. She attained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Nutrition from the...
Roland G. ’Rollie’ Holsen
Sep 26, 2009
Roland Rollie Holsen, 92, died September 26, 2009 in the Palliative Care Unit at MeritCare. The son of Rasmus and Magnild Holsen, Rollie was born December 6, 1916 in Moorhead. He graduated from Moorhead High School and the Interstate Business College. On July 4, 1941 Rollie married Helen Dills in LaMoure, ND. Helen passed away July 14, 1977. On August...
Keith A. Burley
Sep 25, 2009
Keith Arthur Burley, 67, of Okeechobee, FL passed away on September 25, 2009 at the Hospice Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, FL. Keith was born February 14, 1942 and was raised on the family farm in Gardner, ND. He was preceded in death by his parents, Arthur W. and Thelma Lillian Burley. He is survived by...
Alice C. Hoganson
Sep 24, 2009
Alice C. Trebesch Hoganson of Moorhead, MN, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, September 24, 2009. Born February 5, 1932, in Beaulieu, MN, to Reinhold and Lillian Kuchynka Trebesch, Alice was baptized at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Duane, MN, and confirmed at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Mahnomen, MN. She grew up and attended school in Mahnomen,...
Gary N. Ellefson
Sep 22, 2009
Gary N. Ellefson, age 67, of Fargo, ND, died Tuesday, September 22, 2009, in Innovis Health Systems, Fargo, ND.Gary Noel Ellefson was born on May 12, 1942 to E. Hamlin and Myrtle Boyer Ellefson in McVille, ND. He grew up and attended school in Pilot Mound, graduating from Sharon High School in 1961. After graduation, Gary attended Interstate Business College...
Sylvester Rickers
Sep 18, 2009
Sylvester "Syl" Rickers, 76, Moorhead, MN, died on Friday, September 18, 2009, in his home under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley. Syl was born on February 7, 1933, at Emett, ND, to John and Barbara Braun Rickers. He grew up and attended school at Emett until the eighth grade and then graduated from Hitterdal MN High...
Viola I. Gravalin
Sep 18, 2009
Viola I. Gravalin, 91, Moorhead, died Friday, September 18, 2009 in Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead, MN. Vi was born March 20, 1918 near Averill, MN. She was born to the parents of Eddie and Flora Duncan Griffin. Vi grew up on a farm near Averill and attended school in Glyndon, MN. She married Harvey Gravalin on September 28, 1935. He...
Hazel M. Kjelvik
Sep 17, 2009
Hazel M. Kjelvik, 81, of Lake Park, died Thursday, September 17, 2009 in Viking Manor, Ulen, MN.Hazel Mae was born June 23, 1928 in Salisbury, Maryland to Carrol Young and Blanche Irvin Messick. She grew up and attended school in Salisbury. Hazel met Leif Kjelvik while he was serving in the navy. They married on August 24, 1949. She was...
Frank L. Gronbeck
Sep 16, 2009
Frank Gronbeck, 92, Moorhead, MN, died on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, in MeritCare Hospital, Fargo, ND.Frank L. Gronbeck was born on May 25, 1917, near Leonard, ND, to Arne and Josephine Vangness Gronbeck, the oldest of eight children. He grew up and attended school there. He worked for Meyer Guernsey Farm in West Fargo, ND, before spending three and a...
Matthew G. Snare
Sep 16, 2009
Matthew Snare, 24, Moorhead, MN, died on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, in his home in Moorhead.Matthew G. Snare was born on June 27, 1985, in Moorhead, to Douglas and Kim Nemmers Novy-Snare. He grew up in Moorhead, graduating from Moorhead High School in 2003. He worked locally at various businesses and construction firms. Matthew married Tianne Dahlstad in Moorhead in...
Shirley A. Sander
Sep 11, 2009
Shirley A. Sander, age 57 of Hawley, Minnesota, died Friday, September 11, 2009, in her home. Shirley Ann Hovelsrud was born on March 31, 1952, to Melvin and Grace Ramstad Hovelsrud in Moorhead, Minnesota. She attended country school in rural Hawley for a short while before going to public school in Hawley. After graduating from Hawley High School in 1970,...
Gunhild M. Van Nice
Sep 11, 2009
Gunhild Van Nice passed away on Friday, September 11, 2009, at Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead, MN. Gunhild Marie Larson was born on April 23, 1910, in Borås, Sweden to Peter and Anna Beck Larson, with her family she immigrated to the United States in 1911 on the ship Oskar II. They settled first in Crompton, Rhode Island, then South Bend,...
Dakota J. Fossum
Sep 10, 2009
Cody Fossum joined the saints of heaven on Thursday, September 10, 2009, surrounded by his loving family at MeritCare Children's Hospital in Fargo, ND. He will rest eternally in the love of his Savior, Jesus Christ.
Dakota James Fossum was born in Fargo, ND, on July 8, 1992, to Paul and Sherri Fossum. Cody grew up on the Fossum Family...
Gary D. Thompson
Sep 10, 2009
Gary Dean Thompson was born on July 28, 1947 in Fargo, ND to Tilliam and Lena Boland Thompson. He grew up and attended school in Lisbon, ND. In 1968, Gary was drafted into the United States Army where he served during the Vietnam War. He was honorably discharged in 1970. Gary married Kathy Dunham on January 23, 1971 in Ulen,...
Gustav A. Haug
Sep 9, 2009
Gus was born April 24, 1922 in Skree Township, rural Hawley, Minnesota to Oscar and Martha Heiberg Haug. He grew up and attended District #37 country school. Gus served in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he was stationed in the Aleutian Islands. He married Joyce Williamson on June 6, 1953, in Lancaster, Minnesota. Following their marriage they...
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