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Garth Austin
Funeral services for Garth W. Austin, age 52 of Lemmon, S.D., will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, July 10, 2009, at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Lemmon. Pastor Ron Jensen will officiate with burial in the Hettinger Cemetery.
Special music will be provided by Darrel and Marcia Klitzke.
Serving as casketbearers are Steve Hintz, Willard Barnes, Gerald Meidinger, Randy Austin, Lyle Austin, and Ramon Barnes. The Lemmon High School Class of 1976 is considered Honorary Bearers.
Garth William Austin was born May 14, 1957 in Lemmon, S.D., to Leslie and Helen (Anderson) Austin. He grew up on a farm northwest of Lemmon and attended the Davison School in Dakota Township in Adams County. He attended Lemmon Public School and graduated from Lemmon High School in 1976.
Garth was united in marriage to VeRene Ericsson in the Cedar Valley Church north of Lemmon on April 4, 1981. Two children, Grant and Somar were born to this union.
He farmed and ranched with his father. In 1986, they moved to Arizona where he was employed at Karsten Ping Golf Club factory in Phoenix. He worked there for eight years and in 1994, he returned to North Dakota due to his failing health. For the past ten years, Garth has been taking dialysis treatments in Dickinson.
He was a generous person always willing to help others. He attended all activities of his children when possible, and was always happy to go fishing with his son. Garth enjoyed friends and loved his family very much. He will be greatly missed by his family and all who knew him.
Garth passed from this life on Friday morning, July 3, 2009, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Dickinson at the age of 52 years, 1 month, 19 days.
Surviving family members include a son, Grant Austin, Dunn Center; daughter, Somar Austin, Torrington, Wyo.; mother, Helen Austin, Lemmon, S.D.; sister, Joyce Mitchell, Mesa, Ariz.; nephew, Preston Hochhalter and his wife Lindsay, Mesa, Ariz.; and a great niece, Paige Hochhalter, Mesa, Ariz.
He was preceded in death by his father, Leslie Austin in 1994, and a brother-in-law, Lane Hochhalter.
A memorial has been established. Visitation will be Thursday, July 9, 1-7 p.m. and Friday, 9 a.m. to noon at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon.
(Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home)
Pearl Altenburg
Memorial services for Pearl Gaye Altenburg, 72, of Williston, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July, 22, 2009, at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Williston.
The Revs. David and Lorna Halaas will co-officiate and interment of her cremains will be held at a private family ceremony at a later date at the Hillside Memory Gardens in Williston.
Friends may sign a guest registry at the Fulkerson Funeral Home on Tuesday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. and one hour before services at the church on Wednesday. Condolences and memories may be shared with the family also online at www.fulkersons.com.
Pearl G. Altenburg was born to Francis and Fern (Owen) Ulschak at Dickinson on March 18, 1937. She was raised in Dickinson and educated there. She graduated from Dickinson High School in 1955 and continued her education at Dickinson State College and North Dakota State University at Fargo. She earned her teaching degree in home cconomics and began teaching at Ashley in 1959.
On June 7, 1959 she was united in marriage to Roger Altenburg at Dickinson. To this union four children were raised. This past June they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
In her earlier child rearing years, Pearl was blessed to be a stay at home mother; a vocation that she loved thoroughly. Then in 1977 she returned to the teaching profession in Williston, where she taught many students “parenting skills” at Williston High School; she later became the program director and eventually the director of the very highly acclaimed Williston Head Start Program, this allowed her to stay connected to children, as young as 4 years old; this truly was Pearl’s life passion, young children until she retired. Pearl and Roger have continued to make Williston their home.
In their retirement together, they began traveling in their fifth wheel camper and proceeded to visit all 50 states making many friends along the way, North Dakota being Pearl’s favorite.
Together serving as president of the Sakakawea Good Sam Chapter, they continued to socialize and camp with friends throughout North Dakota. Pearl also loved quilting with her Circle at Gloria Dei, playing cards (especially pinochle with her friends at the Heritage Center), participating in water aerobics and mostly spending time with her family and cooking and doing crafts with her grandchildren.
Pearl died on Saturday, July 18, 2009, at the Mercy Medical Center in Williston, surrounded by the love of her family.
She is survived by her husband Roger, daughter, Susan Thompson (Shane) Underdahl, of Grand Forks and their children, Navy, Fiona, Beck Thompson, Alexa, Chloe and Jaiden Underdahl, son, Master Sergeant Mark (Lisa) Altenburg of Panama City, Fla., and their children, Skyler, Legend and Riley, daughter, Karen (Brad) Krenz of Williston and their children, Comstock, Fynn, and Sulley, daughter Joan (Shane) Tangedal of Devils Lake and their children, Isabella and Gabriella, and her sister Coral O’Connell of Fargo.
Memorials in Pearl’s memory may be gifted to the Nelson Cancer Center at Mercy Hospital or to Williston’s Relay for Life. Fulkerson Funeral Home is privileged to care for the family.
Leary Getz
Leary G. Getz, 71, of Bowman died on Thursday, July 9, 2009, at the Southwest Healthcare Hospital in Bowman.
Funeral services for Leary were held on Monday, July 13, 2009, at 2 p.m. at the Bowman Lutheran Church.
Pastor Galen Strand and Pastor Charles Swanson officiated, with the burial at the Mound Cemetery. There was a time of remembrance at the Southwest Healthcare Long Term Care Center Chapel at 10 a.m. , Monday, July 13, 2009.
Leary Gene Getz was born Nov. 13, 1937, in Rhame, the son of Oscar and Fern (Rue) Getz. Leary grew up and attended school in Rhame. He graduated from Rhame High School in 1956. He attended Dickinson State College and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education. Leary was an outstanding athlete for the Rhame Pirates and also participated in baseball and wrestling at DSU. He later attended NDSU in Fargo, and received his master’s degree in education.
He married JoAnn Shock in 1968. To this union, three children were born; Thomas, of Deep Haven, Minn.; daughters, Laurie, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Georgene, of Alexandria, Minn.
Leary started in teaching and coaching career in Trenton. He was very competitive and one of the highlights was competing against his brother, Lewis, who was coaching the Scranton Miners. He went on to be principal and superintendent of the Trenton School System and was responsible for getting the funding for building the new school. He also served as superintendent at the Selfridge and Riverdale School Systems.
He was active in many sports through grade school, high school and college. He loved all sports and enjoyed golfing, curling, fishing, hunting and gardening. He could remember all the statistics from nearly all the games he and Lewis participated in. He was always a “Loyal” Rhame “Pirate” and DSU “Savage” fan.
Leary was a member of many organizations. He was a very active Mason, Shriners and Lion’s Club member and would work tirelessly on their many projects which meant so much to him.
Leary was a loving and caring person who had many friends and always took the time to visit and share experiences with them.
Due to serious health problems, Leary entered the Bowman Southwest Healthcare Service in 2005. He enjoyed playing cards and visiting with friends and residents. You could find him right in front of the television when any sports games were on. He kept everyone informed on the players, plays and statistics of each game.
He is survived by JoAnn Getz, son, Thomas, Sheila, Sydney, Jonny, Hailey; daughters, Laurie Getz; Georgene, Matt and Gretta Kelly; his 100-year-old Mother, Fern; sister, Darleen (Gerald) McLaughlin; brother, Lewis (LaVon) Getz; sister in law, Patsy Getz; Uncle John P. Getz; as well as many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
He is preceded in death by his father, Oscar Getz, brother, Dwaine, (Sonny) Getz and sister, Margie and brother-in-law Robert Silbernagel.
Velma E. Wear
A memorial service for Velma E. Wear, 88, of Hamilton, Mont., formerly of Ekalaka, Mont., will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 25, in the Chapel of Stevenson Funeral Home in Ekalaka, Mont.
Velma passed away on July 9 at Valley View Estates in Hamilton after a long illness.
Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.stevensonfuneralhome.com.
Stevenson Funeral Home, Ekalaka, Mont.
Lucille (Holzemer) Heilman
Memorial Mass for Lucille (Holzemer) Heilman, 87, of Los Angeles, Calif., formerly of Amidon, N.D., will be 10 a.m., Thursday, July 30, 2009, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, New England, N.D. Burial will follow at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Amidon, N.D.
Lucille Marie (Holzemer) Heilman died of natural causes on Oct. 26, 2008, at her home in Los Angeles, Calif., at the age of 87. She was born on her parents’ farm in Amidon, N.D., on March 12, 1921. She was the daughter of John Peter Holzemer and Susan Elizabeth Ficker, a homesteading couple from Vermillion, Minn., who settled in North Dakota in 1908.
Lucille was one of two daughters and eight sons born to Mr. and Mrs. Holzemer. She received her elementary education in a one-room schoolhouse, attended high school at St. Mary’s School in New England, N.D., and earned a teaching certificate from Dickinson State Teacher’s College in 1939, which led to her teaching for a year in a one-room school. It was while she was teaching school that she met Casper John “Cap” Heilman of Dickinson, N.D., whom she married in Los Angeles, Calif., on Jan. 4, 1941.
Lucille grew up during the Dust Bowl years of the “Dirty Thirties” and lived the early years of her marriage during World War II. Like so many of her generation the Great Depression and the war, which followed, largely shaped her life and outlook. All told, her husband, three of her brothers and three of her bothers-in-law served in the armed forces during the war.
Her first child, a son, James Heilman, was born on Dec. 19, 1941, 12 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Two more sons, William (1943) and Richard (1945) were born before the war’s end. Cap and Lucille Heilman had six more children (five sons and a daughter) during the post-war “baby-boom” years, filling out what Cap was fond of calling his “own baseball team.” After the birth of her ninth child, Edward, in 1958, Lucille worked for her husband doing bookkeeping, income tax preparation and secretarial work at his public accounting business.
Following Casper Heilman’s death in 1966 she sold the business to Warren Brown and continued working at the office for a number of years. She went on to become a bookkeeper for Eagle Rock Lumber Company and for McVeys’ hardware stores. In addition she prepared income tax reports for many people in the Northeast Los Angeles area. She always said that was her traveling money. Lucille loved playing music, studying French horn in high school and playing piano for decades.
Her children carry fond memories of dancing about the house to tunes such as “You Are My Sunshine” and “The Beer Barrel Polka” while she tickled the keys of her upright piano. She was also quite active in church work at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church in Eagle Rock where she was a member of the Mothers’ Club, the Blessed Sacrament Confraternity and worked with the St. Vincent De Paul Society doing charitable work. Lucille kept up her friendships “back home” in North Dakota and spent several of the last summers of her life in New England among old friends and in the prairie country she so loved.
Lucille is survived by her children, William and Penelope Heilman of Dunsmuir Calif.; Richard and Mary Ellen Heilman of Ontario, Calif.; Mrs. Patricia Martin of Temple City, Calif.; Robert and Diane Heilman of Myrtle Creek, Ore., Thomas Heilman of Los Angeles, Calif.; Timothy Heilman of Eugene, Ore.; and Edward and Jodilyn Heilman of Los Angeles, Calif.; a daughter-in-law, Patricia Heilman of Days Creek, Ore.; her sister, Sylvia Koppinger of New England, N.D.; 15 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, two sons, James Heilman and Charles “Hoppy” Heilman, one grandson, Sundance Heilman; son-in-law Edward Martin; daughter-in-law Jeri, her parents,and eight brothers.
(Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson)
