Search Archived Marriage Records
Wirth, Sr. Julia
02/15/2005
Sister Julia Wirth
Sister Julia Wirth, age 89, a member of the Sisters of the Presentation, Fargo, died Tuesday, February 15, 2005, in the infirmary at Sacred Heart Convent, Fargo, North Dakota.
Sister Julia (Germaine Julia) was born in the family farm home near Calio, North Dakota, on January 1, 1916, the fifth of eight children born to John Adam Wirth and Cunigunda Schmitz Wirth. She attended grade school at the Trier #1 Country School and graduated from St. Boniface High School in Calio, ND in 1935.
She was received into the Order of the Presentation Sisters in Fargo in 1937 and took the name of Sister Julia. She made her final Profession of Vows in 1942, and celebrated her Golden Jubilee of Profession in 1989. She also celebrated her 60th Anniversary in 1999.
Sister Julia earned a BA degree at St. Scholastica’s College in Duluth, Minnesota, and a MA at Moorhead State University. She spent 23 years at St. Mary’s School in Fargo as teacher and principal. After that she taught 8th grade at Nativity School in Fargo for two years and became principal there where she served for six years. She also taught in Sykeston and Langdon, ND. In addition to her early teaching duties, Sr. Julia also helped care for the children at St. John’s Orphanage for ten years and worked with older children at Villa Nazareth for one year.
Reluctant to leave teaching, she taught Basic Skills at Shanley High School for two years and at Nativity School for five years. For her outstanding work in education, Sr. Julia was a recipient in 1991 of the YWCA Woman of the Year award in the religious category for her dedication to teaching. Sr. Julia also worked in the Archives for the Diocese of Fargo for three years.
Sister Julia is survived by the members of her religious Community, and a brother Ernest, Devils Lake, ND. She was preceded in death by her father and mother, brothers Othmar, David, Emmery, and Herman, and sisters Esther and Mary Ann.
In place of flowers, donations may be made to Presentation Sisters Foundation.
Visitation: Thursday 6-7 p.m. - Sacred Heart Convent
Prayer service: Thursday 7 p.m. - Sacred Heart Convent
Funeral: Friday 11 a.m. - Riverview Place Chapel
Burial: Holy Cross North cemetery, Fargo, ND
Boulger Funeral Home - Fargo, ND
Naslund, Colden
02/16/2005
Colden Chapman Naslund
Gold rolled early into Colden’s room through his east windows on Wednesday morning, February 16th. God already filled the room. This was Colden’s last of many rooms in the Intensive Care Unit at Meritcare Hospital. God had been with Colden’s nurses and his family and had been holding Colden in His hands for months, already; Tuesday evening, He was with them still, as always, all through the night. Just minutes before noon, Jesus took Colden’s hand and they were off. Colden died gracefully and peacefully, among friends and family who loved him and whose hearts are filled with sorrow and with gladness. We will miss Colden dearly, but his mission here was finished, and he deserved a better place to be: now he is in that one best place.
Colden Chapman Naslund was born in Fargo, August 11, 1978, to Ruby (Johnson) and Randy Naslund, both of Minot. Except for his “on-the-road days, ” traveling the West and Southwest of America, and two summers chef-ing at the lodge in Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, Colden chose to live in Fargo.
Colden attended YMCA kinder camp; Horace Mann elementary; Ben Franklin Jr. High; Oak Grove and Fargo North high schools. He was graduated in 1996.
Besides his Mother, Colden’s first lasting love in life was music. He was a proud young singer in the Red River Boy Choir for four and one half years. During this time he toured with the choir three times. They were all great trips, but the high point was singing in Carnegie Hall. He attended music camps at the International Peace Gardens, studied piano for several years, sang in various choirs, played the organ a little and his guitar lots. Colden wrote some music and was an acoustic kind of guy; he liked blue grass way before it was cool (again!); but he enjoyed nearly all kinds of music. He made all our ears better and helped many of us enjoy music more.
Colden was also a voracious and eclectic reader. He read mostly literature and quite a bit of poetry. He also wrote some great lyrics.
Colden’s work choices were exclusively in food service, specifically in fine dining. He loved cooking and food preparation. Sunday afternoons in his Mom and Dad’s kitchen will be forever missed. And our home menus will forever suffer. Colden loved serving food even more than cooking. He was old-man fussy about the one right way and the many wrong ways to do nearly everything in a kitchen or a dining room. His exacting standards were exhausting treats. Sometimes. Other times, he could wear you out with his particular ways about matters many of us didn’t realize were so important. (Some of us loved to tease him, a little.) Those of us who got to work with him either learned to love his eccentricities or went a little nuts.
He loved serving more than cooking. Colden always took making others comfortable and happy seriously—on and off work. He thought special service required anticipating peoples’ desires before they occurred to the person. He was very fond of many of his regular patrons; we hope many of them were fond of Colden.
Colden worked at Mexican Village; the Radisson for years; and was part of the team that created, launched and still maintains Monte’s bistro in downtown Fargo. He was so pleased to be a part of that enterprise and was working there until illness moved him to Meritcare. He was proud of the achievement and the people there were like a second family to him. They all loved him back and we—his first family—are so appreciative of their many kindnesses, remembrances and genuine regard for our Colden.
All of us who long knew our son could have learned a lot about grace and gentleness and charity and sweetness, just by paying close attention as we walked along with him, even in his old Colden days. Now, if only more of you could have known the new Colden, what a powerful message you could be enjoying. Either with him or because of him; either way he would be so pleased.
So many have followed Colden’s journey. Many may think everything was fine for Colden until Labor Day last year, when he first took ill. That, then Colden collapsed and entered the hospital and was cut open and poked and prodded and shot through and through with medicine after medicine, hooked to and propped up by machines and somehow kept alive-like by a host of medicine men and women for five plus months and then he died.
All of you should know the truth. There is so much more to the whole true story. We will tell it to you. Colden was not okay early last September or even August. Colden was wrestling with demons and he was losing; and we were losing Colden, although we did not know it then.
Colden did not go to Meritcare fine and leave there ravaged and full of holes and drains; cut up; wounded; and dead. Physically he was heartbreakingly beat-up and more than half broken. That much is so. But in a much, much more important sense, Colden left Meritcare a fully ready and healed man. Completely healed. Completely perfect.
We believe Colden would want you all to know that he is not, simply speaking, finally “out of his misery”; much, so much more important than not living with infirmity and suffering, which is true, of course, is this—Colden is now living in God’s glory. He has been living out a great blessing—surrounded and well tended by God’s angels, especially his “blue angels, ” here on earth—for over five months.
We believe, we know, Colden prays that all of us who love him will come to join him when our own missions here on earth are done.
Colden is preceded in death by three grandparents. Those whom Colden is leaving and loved and who will love him back forever include his parents, his elder brother Brent Chase Naslund ( 36, proudly serving our country in the North Dakota National Guard, living in Minot) and Chase’s wife, Jessica Ann, and their two children, Zachary Gage and Abigail Rhodes; Colden’s sister, Kelly Blue (28, living in Salt Lake City); his younger brother, Morgan Cade (21, proudly serving in the US Army, living in Friedburg, Germany. He is also survived by his Grandmother Gertrude Naslund (90, living at Rosewood on Broadway, Fargo).
Visitation: Sunday 3 to 6, with a prayer service at 4:00, in Boulger Funeral Home, Fargo; and Monday 9 to 10 in First Lutheran Church, Fargo. Funeral: Monday at 10, in the Church. Internment will be after lunch at Holy Cross cemetery, North Fargo.
Fugere, Frances E.
02/18/2005
Frances E. Fugere
Fargo, North Dakota
Frances passed away on February 18, 2005, at Elim Care Center in Fargo at the age of 91.
Frances E. Ondrush was born on December 18, 1913, in Gary, MN, the daughter of Valentine and Elizabeth (Dostal) Ondrush. She grew up in this area and attended grade school in Gary and later high school in Mahnomen. After her schooling, Frances worked on the family farm prior to moving to Fargo in 1936. Frances was united in marriage to Julian J. Fugere on October 7, 1939. She was a long time employee of the Fargo County Club.
Frances is survived by her husband, Julian of Fargo; her sons, Julian Jr. (Carol) of Des Moines, IA; Robert of Fargo; Ronald (Judy) of Fargo; and Jeffrey of Tampa, FL. She is also survived by her five grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. Frances was preceded in death by her brothers and sisters, Ann Mulchay, Mary Baster, Rudy Ondrush, George Ondrush and Valentine Ondrush.
PRAYER SERVICE: 7 PM Sunday in the funeral home
VISITATION: 6-8 PM Sunday at Boulger Funeral Home in Fargo - and also one hour prior to the funeral in the church on Monday
FUNERAL MASS: 10:30 AM Monday at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Fargo
BURIAL: Holy Cross North cemetery in Fargo
Arrangements entrusted to the care of Boulger Funeral Home in Fargo.
Lechner, Victor
02/20/2005
Victor G. Lechner, age 83 of Fargo, died Sunday, February 20, 2005 in SCCI Hospital, Fargo.
Victor was born in Fargo on August 4, 1921 to Bert H. and Ida G. Lechner. He attended school in Fargo and graduated from Fargo Central in June 1939. He entered military service in January 1943 and served at various posts until October of 1945, when he was ordered to duty with the 40th Infantry Division at Pusan, Korea. Victor also served with the 6th Infantry Division until returning to the U.S. and entering the Army Reserves. On October 3, 1948 he married
Amy Fjelstad. He resumed his employment with the Postal Service until retirement in August 1976. He also remained active with the Army Reserves and North Dakota National Guard, retiring from the Guard in 1973. Victor was a long time member of the Fargo Legion Post #2, was Post Exalted Ruler of the Elks Lodge #260 in Fargo and was Past President of the Reserve Officers' Association.
Victor is survived by his wife, Amy of Fargo; daugther, Sharon (Paul) Madson, Big Cormorant Lake, MN; son, Griff (Helen) Lechner, Albuquerque, NM; brothers, William (Geraldine) Lechner, Fargo and Robert (Marian) Lechner, Moorhead; grandson, Jeff (Jennifer), Oregon, WI; granddaughter, Sarah (Paul) Anderson, Eden Prairie, MN and 3 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death his parents and brother, Bert.
The memorial service will be held on Thursday, February 24 at 11:00 am at Olivet Lutheran Church, Fargo. Burial will be in the North Dakota Veterans' cemetery in Mandan in the spring.
Arrangements with Boulger Funeral Home, Fargo.
Hendrickson, Delores
02/19/2005
Delores B. Hendrickson, 79, Elim Care Center, Fargo, died Saturday, Feb. 19, 2005, in the nursing home.
Delores Berg was born Aug. 17, 1925, in Richland County, N.D. She attended school in Mooreton, N.D. and Galchutt, N.D. On Nov. 27, 1942, she married
Alton Hendrickson in Galchutt. They lived in Walcott, N.D., where she worked for the United States Postal Service. He died in 1991. She entered the care center in Decmeber 2003.
She is survived by three sons, Roger (Stephenie), Walcott, Rick (Renae), Grand Forks, N.D., Ross, Jacksonville, Fla.; three sisters, LuVern (Delbert) Jones, Wyndmere, N.D., Vernice (Dale) DeVries, Wahpeton, N.D., Norma Salquist, West Fargo; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Visitation: Tuesday from 4 to 7, with a prayer service at 7, in Fredrikson Funeral Home, Kindred, N.D.
Funeral: Wednesday at 11 in Walcott Lutheran Church.
Burial: Walcott Lutheran cemetery.
Peterson, Kenneth "Butch"
02/17/2005
Kenneth “Butch” Peterson, age 66, Blanchard, ND, passed away Thursday, February 17, 2005, in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Fargo.
Kenneth was born December 31, 1938, in Silver Creek, MN, the son of John and Sigrid Peterson.
He is survived by his wife, Carol of Hillsboro, ND; one daughter, Marcia Peasley of Pelican Rapids, MN; two stepsons, Phillip Koski and Vincent Koski, both of Minneapolis, MN; two granddaughters; two great grandsons; and two sisters, Ruth Shultz of Minneapolis and Ruby Lang of Annadale, MN.
A memorial gathering will be held from 4-7 p.m. with a prayer service at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 26, 2005, at the Hill House, located at 310 Caledonia Avenue in Hillsboro.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fargo.
Arrangements entrusted to Wildeman Funeral Home, Hillsboro.
Steiger, Margareta
02/20/2005
Margareta M. Steiger, age 74, Lisbon, ND, passed away Sunday, February 20, 2005, in the North Dakota Veterans Home in Lisbon.
Margareta Baumstarck was born March 25, 1930, on a farm 18 miles east of Linton, ND, the daughter of Adam and Juliana (Vetter) Baumstarck. She attended rural school in the area. She moved to Bismarck, ND, in 1953, and began work at St. Alexis Hospital. Margareta was united in marriage to Alfred E. Steiger on June 27, 1956, in St. Mary’s Church in Bismarck. The couple lived there until 1958, when they moved to Fargo. She was a daycare provider, and also provided foster care and in-home care in their home. The couple moved to Lisbon in March 2001.
She is survived by her husband, Alfred of Lisbon; one brother, Adam (Cecelia) Baumstarck of Linton, ND; three sisters, Sr. Leona Baumstarck of Richardton, ND, Kenegunda (Leo) Unser of Napoleon, ND, and Juliana (Val) Malsom of Ipswich, SD; three sisters-in-law, Kathyren Baumstarck of Lowell, WY, Rose Baumstarck of Bismarck, ND, and Beverly Baumstarck of Bismarck; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her parents, four sisters, and five brothers.
The funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday in St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, Fargo. Visitation will be held Wednesday from 5-7 p.m. in Boulger Funeral Home, Fargo, with a prayer service at 7 p.m. Visitation will also be held in the church on Thursday one hour prior to services. Burial will be in Holy Cross North cemetery, Fargo.
Arrangements entrusted to Boulger Funeral Home, Fargo.
