In Our Care
Lloyd Olson
Mar 1, 2014
Lloyd Olson, 88, Grand Forks, was called home by the Lord on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at Luther Memorial Home, Mayville, North Dakota. Lloyd Olson was born in Grand Forks to Iver Lars Olson and Alice (Lieberg) Olson on January 30, 1926. He attended school in Rye Township of Grand Forks County. The family moved into their home on Lewis...
Curtis Rice
Feb 26, 2014
Curtis D. Rice, 88, passed away on February 26, 2014, at Altru Hospital in Grand Forks, ND. Curtis was born on June 15, 1925 in Hibbing, MN. He graduated from Hibbing High School in 1943, and served in the Navy Air Corp during WWII. He was a nose gunner on a PBM Navy Patrol Bomber and saw duty in China...
Kenneth Kvasager
Feb 25, 2014
Kenneth O. Kvasager, 83, Grand Forks, ND died Tuesday, February 25, 2014 in Valley Memorial Home Eldercare, Grand Forks. Kenneth was born November 5, 1930 in rural Thompson, ND, the son of Ole and Amanda (Anderson) Kvasager. He was raised and educated in rural Thompson where he also helped on his family's farm. Kenneth married Marion Lebacken on January 6,...
Cynthia Gail Kordecki
Feb 21, 2014
Cynthia Gail Kordecki, 64, of Grand Forks, died February 21, 2014. Born May 2, 1949, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, she was the daughter of Ferne (Clough) and Frank Kordecki. She received a bachelors degree in anthropology and theology from Marquette University in 1971, and a masters in geography from University of North Dakota in 1992. She worked for Anthropology Research at...
Orpha Omlid
Feb 20, 2014
Orpha J. Omlid, 92, of Grand Forks, and formerly of Thompson, ND died Thursday, February 20, 2014, in 4000 Valley Square Woodside Village of Grand Forks. Orpha was born January 29, 1922, in rural Thompson, ND, the daughter of Tillie & Halvor Thompson. She grew up and attended schools in the Thompson area. She married William H. Omlid on April...
Elizabeth Mae Lyngby
Feb 17, 2014
Elizabeth Mae (Bess) Lyngby, 101, passed away on February 17, 2014, at 4000 Valley Square - Woodside Village, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Elizabeth was born to George & Mary Ellen Knauss on October 30, 1912, in Hannaford, North Dakota. She married Carl L. Lyngby on December 24, 1931. They resided in Cooperstown and Buffalo, North Dakota, prior to moving to...
Phyllis Buvik
Feb 17, 2014
Phyllis M. Buvik, 69, Grand Forks, died Monday, February 17, 2014 in Valley Memorial Home Eldercare. Phyllis Marie Buvik, child of God, was born at Devils Lake, ND on November 21, 1944. Phyllis moved to Grand Forks in 1973. She has been an enthusiastic, valued and active member of Augustana Lutheran Church, the LISTEN Drop In Center and ARC. She...
Annie Nygaard
Feb 13, 2014
Annie Nygaard, 94, of Buxton, ND died Thursday, February 13, 2014 in the Luther Memorial Home in Mayville, ND. Annie Brustad was born on June 3, 1919 in Fosston, MN, the daughter of Ole and Anna (Sveum) Brustad. She grew up on a farm near Fosston and attended a one-room school near there. She married Milfred Hovet in 1940 and...
James R. Cronin
Feb 13, 2014
James R. Cronin, 73, passed away on Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 4000 Valley Square Woodside Village, Grand Forks. Jim was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota on August 16, 1940, the son of James E. and MaDonna Cronin of Manvel, North Dakota. He lived and worked in the Grand Forks area until his retirement in 1995 as a Boiler...
Carol Louise Johnson
Feb 10, 2014
Carol Louise Johnson, 75, of Grand Forks, passed away on Monday, February 10th, 2014, at Aneta Parkview Health Center in Aneta, ND. Carol was born on August 18th, 1938, in Crookston, MN, to Fred & Emily Montreuil. She graduated from Crookston Central High School, and worked part time at Villa St. Vincent Rest Home. She married Wallace Johnson on Nov....
Pauline M Bachmeier
Feb 7, 2014
Pauline M. Bachmeier, 84, Grand Forks, ND passed away Friday, February 7, 2014 at Valley Eldercare, Grand Forks, ND. Pauline was born July 18, 1929 to Benedict and Caroline Schmidt in McHenry County, ND. She married Nick Bachmeier in June 14, 1949. Pauline and Nick had seven children. Pauline enjoyed going to Mass and her faith was very important to...
Carol Ann Thompson
Feb 6, 2014
Carol A. Thompson, 69, of Grand Forks, ND passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 6, 2014 at Valley Eldercare in Grand Forks. She was born and raised in Grand Forks, ND, the daughter of Sonny and Lyn Fosness. In 1962 she married Bob Morris and moved to Savannah, GA. In 1976, Carol returned to Grand Forks to be near family....
Dustin Stittsworth
Feb 6, 2014
Dustin J. Stittsworth, 26, Grand Forks, ND and formerly of Devils Lake, ND died Thursday, February 6, 2014 at home. Dustin was born October 27, 1987 in Devils Lake, ND the son of Kirby and Jodi (Habedank) Stittsworth. He was raised and educated in Devils Lake and Grand Forks and graduated from Grand Forks Community High School in 2007. Dustin...
Faye L. Gibbens
Feb 1, 2014
Faye Gibbens, 70, co-founder and longtime officer of the North Dakota Association for the Disabled (NDAD), died Saturday, Feb. 1, at Altru Hospital in Grand Forks. Inspired by their son, Mike, who was born with cerebral palsy, Faye Gibbens and her husband of nearly 50 years, Ron, built NDAD from a small Grand Forks support group to a statewide charitable...
Lillian B. Iverson
Feb 1, 2014
Lillian B. Iverson, 88, Grand Forks, died Saturday, February 1, 2014 in Valley Memorial Homes Eldercare Center, Grand Forks. Lillian Bernice Jasmer was born at Rural Edinburg, North Dakota on April 28, 1925 to William Frederick Jasmer and Clara (Troftgruben) Jasmer. She attended schools at Rural Edinburg, and graduated from Park River High School. Lillian married Orville L. Iverson on...
Lois Sorum
Jan 30, 2014
Lois R. Sorum, 84, Grand Forks, ND passed away Thursday, January 30, 2014 in the Valley Memorial Home Transitional Care Unit. Lois Ruth Wolsky was born on a farm near Kensal, ND to William and Anna (Feldentrager) Wolsky. She graduated from high school in Kensal then graduated from the New York Hairdressing Academy in Fargo, ND. She practiced hairdressing for...
Margaret Barbara Hankerson
Jan 29, 2014
Margaret Hankerson, 93, of Grand Forks, ND passed away peacefully at Valley 4000Woodside Village in Grand Forks. She was born September 8, 1920 in Taylor, ND. Margaret was raised and educated in Dickinson, ND. In 1952 she married Fred Mann. When Fred passed away in 1966, Margaret moved to Grand Forks to be near her children and worked at the...
Violet M. Birkholz
Jan 25, 2014
Violet Birkholz, formerly of Grand Forks, died Saturday, January 25th, 2014 in Long Beach, California, far removed from subzero temperatures and raging blizzards. Violet Mabel Birkholz was born to Alois and Antonia Kopecky near Tabor, Minnesota on a frigid Groundhog Day in 1921. In her teens, she spent time in St. Paul with her beloved Aunt Helen, and got a...
Frances "Fran" L. Dunn
Jan 25, 2014
Frances Lorraine Dunn Fran Dunn, 85, of Grand Forks, passed away at Valley Eldercare on January 25, 2013. She was born in Breckenridge, MN on October 14, 1928 to Walter and Lela Anderson. She was married to Rodney Jack Dunn on January 1, 1947. They made their home in Grand Forks where she worked as secretary at the Grand Forks...
Gilford Davidson
Jan 23, 2014
Gilford N. "Gilly" Davidson, 70, Grand Forks, died Thursday, January 23, 2014 in Altru Hospital, Grand Forks, surrounded by his loving family. Gilford Nile Davidson was born in Grand Forks on September 29, 1943 to Ole and Lily (Holter) Davidson. He was raised and educated in Grand Forks. Gilford was employed in Grand Forks for 44 years by Rydell Chevrolet....
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