Obituaries

Ike Richard Mackner was born sleeping on January 30, 2022 at Essentia Health, Fargo, ND.

Although Ike never spent time with us on earth he was so loved and will be missed.

He is survived by his parents, Robin Rasmusson and Nicholas Mackner.

Jean E. Fisher, 70, Fargo, ND, died on Monday, September 10, 2007, of leukemia at MeritCare Hospital, surrounded by her family. Jean was born in Melrose, WI, to Carl and Nilda Nelson Torkelson, rural dairy farmer and school teacher. She graduated in 1955 from Melrose High School where she served as Senior Class President. In 1959, she graduated from Luther...

He is survived by his mother, Christina Thompson; brother, Robert Mary Beitel; sisters, Brianna Littlewolf, Sabrina Marvin Thompson, and Jazzmine Thompson; grandparents, Barbara Thompson, Pamela Brown, and Conrad Bourman Sr.; and many cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his father, Russell D. Thompson Jr.; grandfather, Russell D. Thompson Sr.; and uncle, Cyril Thompson Sr....

Graveside services will be held at a later date in Verndale, MN.

Margaret "Peggy" McCormick Benedict, 99, a lifelong resident of Fargo-Moorhead passed away peacefully at Sunnyside Home in Lake Park early Sunday morning, the 9th of January 2011. Peggy was preceded in death by: her parents, Rose and Thomas McCormick, her four siblings, Walsh, Thomas, Richard and Jerry. Also a beloved grandchild Katie Benedict, daughter of recently deceased Pat Benedict. And...

Daniel J. Sigdestad was born September 17, 1899 at his parent's farm near Bristol, SD. There were nine children in his family, but the first four infants died. Mr. Sigdestad attended his first eight years of school in a one-room rural school house near Bristol. He attended Lutheran Bible School in Grand Forks, ND during high school, and Augustana College...