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Joan
Vatnsdal, 58
Badger
- Joan Vatnsdal, 58, died Friday, April 27,
2001 at Altru Hospital in Grand Forks,
N.D.
Funeral
services were held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 1, at
Oiland Lutheran Church, rural Greenbush, with Rev.
LeRoy Flickinger officiating. Lynn Balstad was the
pianist, and Carol Gregerson was the vocalist.
Casketbearers were Terry Buer, Billy Roy Holum,
Jason Kotowicz, Darrin Vatnsdal, Ryan Vatnsdal and
Neal Vatnsdal. Interment was in Oiland Lutheran
Cemetery with Gieseke Funeral Chapel of Greenbush
in charge of the arrangements.
Joan
Rae Buer was born on July 29, 1942 in Scobey,
Mont., the daughter of James and Lucy (Girard)
Buer. She grew up in Scobey, graduating from Scobey
High School in 1960. She attended Kinmen Business
University at Spokane, Wash.
On
July 29, 1964, she married Orelle Vatnsdal at
Scobey, Mont. The couple operated a Conoco Service
Station in Scobey from 1965 to 1969 when they moved
to Moose township of Roseau county near Badger
where they farmed until 1989. From 1989 to 1993,
Joan managed the VFW Club in Badger. She then
helped her husband in his repair shop until 1997
when she retired due to ill health.
Joan
is survived by her husband, Orelle; a son, Nathan
Vatnsdal of Grand Forks, N.D.; a daughter, Natasha
(Kelly) Kotowicz of Alvarado; three grandchildren;
two brothers, James Buer and Quentin Buer of
Scobey, Mont.; and four sisters, Eugene Vanderpan
of Scobey, Mont., Delores Billehus of Badger, Aida
Buer of Great Falls, Mont. and Patricia Nelson of
Spokane, Wash.
She
was preceded in death by her parents; a brother,
Gerald Lebal; and a sister in infancy.
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