Jody
Schmalz, 17
Lancaster
- Jody Schmalz, 17, of rural Lancaster died on
Friday, December 12, 2003 in rural Arnegard, N.D.,
as a result of a snowmobile accident.
Funeral Services were held on Wednesday, Dec. 17 at
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Greenbush,
with Father Don Braukmann officiating. Casket
bearers included Jason, Darin and Brian Bertilrud,
Darby Dokken, Kevin Peterson, Jamie Sikorski, John
Frislie and Klint Mahne. Interment was held on
Thursday, Dec. 18 at St. John's Cemetery northeast
of Caribou.
Jody
Faye Schmalz, the daughter of Blaine "Butch" and
Faye (Miller) Schmalz, was born May 18, 1986 in
Greenbush. She was baptized on July 12, 1986 at St.
Aloysius Catholic Church in Leo, and took her first
communion on May 7, 1995, also at St. Aloysius and
was confirmed on September 14, 2003 at Blessed
Sacrament Church in Greenbush.
Jody
attended school in Greenbush until the fifth grade
and the Lancaster School from sixth to ninth grade.
She then returned to the Greenbush-Middle River
School where she was currently in her junior year.
Jody
was active in choir, basketball, volleyball, FFA,
4-H, and Blessed Sacrament Youth Groups. She loved
hunting and fishing, camping, swimming,
snowmobiling, four-wheeling, and hunting for
shedded deer antlers. She also enjoyed spending
time with friends, photography and scrapbooking.
Survivors
include her parents; two sisters, Amy and Kelsey
Schmalz; one brother, Cody Schmalz, all of
Lancaster; grandparents, Carol Miller of Greenbush,
William and Evelyn Schmalz of Badger; several
uncles, aunts, cousins and other
relatives.
She
was preceded in death by her maternal grandfather,
Myron Miller; two cousins; and a friend, Casey
Johnson of Arnegard, N.D., who also died in the
accident.
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