Obituaries
Obituaries for Hanson-Runsvold Funeral Home
Deb Renae Solberg
Jan 31, 2018
Deborah Renae Solberg, 60, of Fargo, ND, died Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN. The eldest child and only daughter of Archie and Loretta Solberg, Deb was born on April 25, 1957 in Fargo, ND. She was a 1975 graduate of Brookings High School and attended South Dakota State University. After graduation...
Rose Dawn Ohnstad
Jan 31, 2018
Rose Dawn Ohnstad, age 91, of Fargo, ND, passed away Wednesday January 31, at TOUCHMARCK Assisted Living in Fargo, where she resided since July. She was surrounded by family, and under the care of Hospice. Born in 1926, she attended Fargo Central High School. Rose and her husband John, childhood sweethearts, married Feb. 24, 1944 and were blessed with four...
Joyce M. Parsley
Jan 28, 2018
Joyce M. Parsley, 81, Fargo, died suddenly and peacefully on Sunday afternoon, January 28, 2018 in her home. Joyce Marie Olson was born Oct. 25, 1936 in Fargo to Theodore and Phoebe (Toftehagen) Olson. She was baptized on Nov. 22, 1936 at First Lutheran Church, Fargo. She grew up and attended school in Fargo, graduating from Fargo Central High School...
Carolyn M. Post
Jan 27, 2018
Carolyn Post, 71, of Fargo, ND, died Saturday, January 27, 2018 at Bethany on 42nd in Fargo. Carolyn M. Tweiten was born March 28, 1946 in Moorhead, MN to Grant and Oreal (Larson) Tweiten. She grew up in Fargo and attended Fargo Central High School. On August 1, 1963 she married Dick C. Post. Carolyn passed six weeks after her...
Frederick Oliver Anderson
Jan 22, 2018
Fred Anderson, 89, died on Monday January 22 at his home in Moorhead. Frederick Oliver Anderson was born in Fargo in 1928 to Einar and Margaret Anderson. He entered service in the United States Navy in 1946. He served 2 years as Petty Officer 3rd Class - Paymaster and was stationed in California, Maryland and Florida. In 1948 he returned...
Joanne M. Wonderlich
Jan 22, 2018
Joanne Marie Geraghty was born November 12, 1931 in Spokane, Washington to Hugh and Pauline (Davis) Geraghty. She moved to Fargo as a child and graduated from Fargo Central. Joanne attended Interstate Business College. She married Arthur Wonderlich on January 15, 1955 in Fargo. They raised their three children in Moorhead, MN where Joanne worked for the Moorhead School District...
Shawn Montgomery Gordon
Jan 21, 2018
Shawn Gordon, 47, of Fargo, ND, died January 21, 2018 at his home in Fargo, ND.
Lorraine Minnie Sparke
Jan 19, 2018
Lorraine Sparke died on January 19, 2018. She was born on August 23, 1924 in Osseo, MN to Ben and Julia (Roder) Schimelpfenig. In 1934 her family moved to a small farm near Johnson Lake south of Detroit Lakes, MN where she attended a country school. Her family moved again in 1938 to Amenia, ND where she graduated from high...
Jean Wightman
Jan 18, 2018
Norma Jean (Briggs) Wightman, age 90, died January 18, at Eventide, Fargo. She was born in Northwest Iowa to Lester and Veronica Briggs. Jean and her younger sister Joyce were raised on a farm, educated through 8th grade in a one-room school ¼ mile away. They graduated from Marcus High School. In 1945, Jean joined the Army Cadet Corps as...
George Olson Jr.
Jan 18, 2018
George Olson, Jr., 87 of West Fargo, died Thursday, January 18 at Sanford Health Palliative Care, Fargo. No services are planned at this time.
Lynnet Denise Ysteboe
Jan 18, 2018
Lynnet Denise Ysteboe, 59, of Hatton, died Thursday, January 18, 2018. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Pontoppidan Lutheran Church, Hearing Loss Association of the Capital Region - PO Box 1553, Camp Hill, PA 17001, or Oak Grove Lutheran School.
John M. Andrist
Jan 17, 2018
Longtime Crosby resident John Andrist, family man, newspaper man, senator and consummate supporter of his community, died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, in a Fargo hospital following a stroke the previous week. He was 86. John had a deep affection for his community, his state, and the legislative district he served as state senator for 22 years. At the same time...
Ione Marie Nettum Woodford
Jan 17, 2018
Ione M. Woodford, 93, passed away from cancer on January 17, 2018 at the Bethany Nursing Home on South University in Fargo. A Celebration of Life will be Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 2:00 PM at Hanson-Runsvold Funeral Home. Visitation will be one hour prior to the Celebration. Ione was born May 25, 1924 to Waldemar and Christine (Overboe) Nettum....
Dianne G. Scott
Jan 13, 2018
Dianne G. Scott, age 74, of Fargo, ND died Saturday, January 13, in Bethany on University, surrounded by her loving family after a lengthy battle with cancer. Dianne was born to Lloyd and Arlene Domek on July 21, 1943 in Ypsilanti, ND. She graduated from Montpelier High School in 1961. After earning an RN degree from St. Luke’s School of...
Randy Kent Stites
Jan 12, 2018
Randy (Kent) Stites, 75, of Fargo, ND and formerly Valley City, ND passed away on January 12, 2018. A celebration of life will be held this summer at Randy’s lake home. Randy was the son of Clifford and Maxine Stites, and spent his childhood in Oakes, ND. He graduated from Valley City State University with a degree in Education and...
Kermin Lawrence Vangerud Ii
Jan 10, 2018
Kermin Lawrence Vangerud II was born on March 13th 1978 to Kermin and Karen Vangerud in Fargo, North Dakota. He lived in many towns as a child before settling in Gardner, North Dakota. He attended Cass Valley North school where he participated in baseball and football. As an adult he resided in Fargo and Lidgerwood, North Dakota. He loved to...
Lowell Frank Johnson
Jan 8, 2018
Lowell F. Johnson, 77, of West Fargo, ND, passed away on Monday, January 8, 2018 at the Fargo Downtown Sanford Palliative Care Unit. Lowell was born on July 5, 1940 in Garrison, ND, son of Frank and Grace (Carlson) Johnson. He graduated from Garrison High School, received his bachelor’s degree from The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND,...
Helen Elizabeth Rogers
Jan 8, 2018
Helen Rogers died January 8 at her home in Scottsdale, Ariz. A proud North Dakota native and longtime Fargoan, Helen was 101 years old. Helen Elizabeth Rorvig was born on January 6, 1917, in Bismarck, N.D., to Edward Peter Rorvig and Mary Peterson Rorvig. Helen’s mother died in 1918 in the great flu epidemic. Helen was subsequently raised in Fargo...
Donna M. Winmill
Jan 7, 2018
Donna Mae La Rosa was born in Walker, Minnesota on November 9, 1924. She graduated high school in 1942. When she was twenty she became a Marine and was stationed at Arlington, VA. She married Virgil Winmill after the war and continued to live in Walker until moving to Bowman in 1950 where they became the owners of Windy’s Bar...
Deb Renae Solberg
Jan 31, 2018
Deborah Renae Solberg, 60, of Fargo, ND, died Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN. The eldest child and only daughter of Archie and Loretta Solberg, Deb was born on April 25, 1957 in Fargo, ND. She was a 1975 graduate of Brookings High School and attended South Dakota State University. After graduation...
Rose Dawn Ohnstad
Jan 31, 2018
Rose Dawn Ohnstad, age 91, of Fargo, ND, passed away Wednesday January 31, at TOUCHMARCK Assisted Living in Fargo, where she resided since July. She was surrounded by family, and under the care of Hospice. Born in 1926, she attended Fargo Central High School. Rose and her husband John, childhood sweethearts, married Feb. 24, 1944 and were blessed with four...
Joyce M. Parsley
Jan 28, 2018
Joyce M. Parsley, 81, Fargo, died suddenly and peacefully on Sunday afternoon, January 28, 2018 in her home. Joyce Marie Olson was born Oct. 25, 1936 in Fargo to Theodore and Phoebe (Toftehagen) Olson. She was baptized on Nov. 22, 1936 at First Lutheran Church, Fargo. She grew up and attended school in Fargo, graduating from Fargo Central High School...
Carolyn M. Post
Jan 27, 2018
Carolyn Post, 71, of Fargo, ND, died Saturday, January 27, 2018 at Bethany on 42nd in Fargo. Carolyn M. Tweiten was born March 28, 1946 in Moorhead, MN to Grant and Oreal (Larson) Tweiten. She grew up in Fargo and attended Fargo Central High School. On August 1, 1963 she married Dick C. Post. Carolyn passed six weeks after her...
Frederick Oliver Anderson
Jan 22, 2018
Fred Anderson, 89, died on Monday January 22 at his home in Moorhead. Frederick Oliver Anderson was born in Fargo in 1928 to Einar and Margaret Anderson. He entered service in the United States Navy in 1946. He served 2 years as Petty Officer 3rd Class - Paymaster and was stationed in California, Maryland and Florida. In 1948 he returned...
Joanne M. Wonderlich
Jan 22, 2018
Joanne Marie Geraghty was born November 12, 1931 in Spokane, Washington to Hugh and Pauline (Davis) Geraghty. She moved to Fargo as a child and graduated from Fargo Central. Joanne attended Interstate Business College. She married Arthur Wonderlich on January 15, 1955 in Fargo. They raised their three children in Moorhead, MN where Joanne worked for the Moorhead School District...
Shawn Montgomery Gordon
Jan 21, 2018
Shawn Gordon, 47, of Fargo, ND, died January 21, 2018 at his home in Fargo, ND.
Lorraine Minnie Sparke
Jan 19, 2018
Lorraine Sparke died on January 19, 2018. She was born on August 23, 1924 in Osseo, MN to Ben and Julia (Roder) Schimelpfenig. In 1934 her family moved to a small farm near Johnson Lake south of Detroit Lakes, MN where she attended a country school. Her family moved again in 1938 to Amenia, ND where she graduated from high...
Jean Wightman
Jan 18, 2018
Norma Jean (Briggs) Wightman, age 90, died January 18, at Eventide, Fargo. She was born in Northwest Iowa to Lester and Veronica Briggs. Jean and her younger sister Joyce were raised on a farm, educated through 8th grade in a one-room school ¼ mile away. They graduated from Marcus High School. In 1945, Jean joined the Army Cadet Corps as...
George Olson Jr.
Jan 18, 2018
George Olson, Jr., 87 of West Fargo, died Thursday, January 18 at Sanford Health Palliative Care, Fargo. No services are planned at this time.
Lynnet Denise Ysteboe
Jan 18, 2018
Lynnet Denise Ysteboe, 59, of Hatton, died Thursday, January 18, 2018. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Pontoppidan Lutheran Church, Hearing Loss Association of the Capital Region - PO Box 1553, Camp Hill, PA 17001, or Oak Grove Lutheran School.
John M. Andrist
Jan 17, 2018
Longtime Crosby resident John Andrist, family man, newspaper man, senator and consummate supporter of his community, died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, in a Fargo hospital following a stroke the previous week. He was 86. John had a deep affection for his community, his state, and the legislative district he served as state senator for 22 years. At the same time...
Ione Marie Nettum Woodford
Jan 17, 2018
Ione M. Woodford, 93, passed away from cancer on January 17, 2018 at the Bethany Nursing Home on South University in Fargo. A Celebration of Life will be Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 2:00 PM at Hanson-Runsvold Funeral Home. Visitation will be one hour prior to the Celebration. Ione was born May 25, 1924 to Waldemar and Christine (Overboe) Nettum....
Dianne G. Scott
Jan 13, 2018
Dianne G. Scott, age 74, of Fargo, ND died Saturday, January 13, in Bethany on University, surrounded by her loving family after a lengthy battle with cancer. Dianne was born to Lloyd and Arlene Domek on July 21, 1943 in Ypsilanti, ND. She graduated from Montpelier High School in 1961. After earning an RN degree from St. Luke’s School of...
Randy Kent Stites
Jan 12, 2018
Randy (Kent) Stites, 75, of Fargo, ND and formerly Valley City, ND passed away on January 12, 2018. A celebration of life will be held this summer at Randy’s lake home. Randy was the son of Clifford and Maxine Stites, and spent his childhood in Oakes, ND. He graduated from Valley City State University with a degree in Education and...
Kermin Lawrence Vangerud Ii
Jan 10, 2018
Kermin Lawrence Vangerud II was born on March 13th 1978 to Kermin and Karen Vangerud in Fargo, North Dakota. He lived in many towns as a child before settling in Gardner, North Dakota. He attended Cass Valley North school where he participated in baseball and football. As an adult he resided in Fargo and Lidgerwood, North Dakota. He loved to...
Lowell Frank Johnson
Jan 8, 2018
Lowell F. Johnson, 77, of West Fargo, ND, passed away on Monday, January 8, 2018 at the Fargo Downtown Sanford Palliative Care Unit. Lowell was born on July 5, 1940 in Garrison, ND, son of Frank and Grace (Carlson) Johnson. He graduated from Garrison High School, received his bachelor’s degree from The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND,...
Helen Elizabeth Rogers
Jan 8, 2018
Helen Rogers died January 8 at her home in Scottsdale, Ariz. A proud North Dakota native and longtime Fargoan, Helen was 101 years old. Helen Elizabeth Rorvig was born on January 6, 1917, in Bismarck, N.D., to Edward Peter Rorvig and Mary Peterson Rorvig. Helen’s mother died in 1918 in the great flu epidemic. Helen was subsequently raised in Fargo...
Donna M. Winmill
Jan 7, 2018
Donna Mae La Rosa was born in Walker, Minnesota on November 9, 1924. She graduated high school in 1942. When she was twenty she became a Marine and was stationed at Arlington, VA. She married Virgil Winmill after the war and continued to live in Walker until moving to Bowman in 1950 where they became the owners of Windy’s Bar...
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