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Tuesday, April 18, 2017William B. Hart, 84, of Forksville, died Friday, April 14, 2017, at Towanda Memorial Hospital. Born November 13, 1932 in New Albany, he was a son of the late Raymond L. and Ethel (Baker) Hart. He and his wife, the former Nancy Taylor, would have celebrated 22 years of marriage on November 15, 2017. Bill was a dedicated and respected dairy farmer his entire life and was the fifth generation owner of High Hart Farms. As a young man, he was the recipient of the Keystone Farmer Award for outstanding farming, as-well-as many other conservation awards for farming. He was a member of the Susquehanna Car Club, the Ogdensburg Gun Club, Sullivan County Planning Commission, Evergreen Lodge #163 F. & A.M., and an honorary member of the Sullivan County Fair where he formerly served as vice president. He was a former member of the Sullivan County Conservation District, and past president of the Greenwood Cemetery Association. Bill enjoyed hunting with family and friends. He loved people so much; testified to by the cou...
Monday, March 13, 2017Wanda (Keifet) Stordahl (McIntosh, MN). Mother in law, Madeline Dufault and Father in law Lawrence Dufault (Gentilly, MN), brother in law, Randy Dufault and his wife Kathy (East Grand Forks, MN), brother in law Tony Dufault and wife Deb (Grand Forks, ND), brother in law, Robin Dufault and girlfriend, Diane (East Grand Forks), sister in law, Charlene Schlueter and husband Bob (Hutchinson, MN), sister in law Tammy Scheving and husband Roger, sister in law Lonie Woltjer and husband, Andy (Moorhead, MN) and brother in law, Marlin Dufault (Gentilly, MN) and many, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Nieces, Nephews and dear friends.Welcoming Jim to his heavenly home was his son Bryan and infant, Erin. His parents, Orville and Marion Stordahl and many beloved family members, friends and animals. In honor of Jim’s life, the family will be setting up the Jim Stordahl scholarship fund for Win-E-Mac students.
Monday, January 16, 2017GRAND FORKS -- The longtime director of North Dakota's geological core library at the University of North Dakota has died.Julie LeFever was in charge of the Laird Core and Sample Library on campus for 27 years, the only director the facility had.She died in Grand Forks Dec. 5, according to an obituary Tuesday. She was 63.The library was an important resource for the oil industry, researchers and students. State officials dedicated a $13.6 million expansion of the center in September, including a new lab named for LeFever. Before her death, LeFever had been selected to receive the 2017 Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.Jim Sorenson, principal geologist at the Energy and Environmental Research Center at UND, described LeFever as a “fantastic geologist” who knew the oil-rich Williston Basin in western North Dakota “better than anyone.”“She was the kind of person you could call up and talk rocks anytime,” Sorenson said of LeFever, who...
Conservationist Bud Lilly, 'a Trout's Best Friend,' Dies at 91 - New York Times
Monday, January 16, 2017Last year, his son Gregory told his Facebook followers to visit him for a chat on the porch of his father’s home, a converted boardinghouse, in Three Forks, Mont.“Chances are he’s out front, taking in some vitamin D,” Gregory Lilly wrote, “and waiting for a chance to talk about fishing or what it was like to be an officer in the Navy at age 19 during WWII.”...
Monday, January 09, 2017Hillsboro offers an excellent education through its schools, with the community accepting his family as one of their own.He also noted the location of Hillsboro, which sits halfway between Grand Forks and Fargo."One of the neat things is we are 45 minutes from either way, from two great communities: Grand Forks and Fargo," he said. "There are a lot of communities in this country that can't be rural, can't be small-town, and have that kind of connection if you want to go someplace with great services. That has turned out to be a great asset."Larson, who has moved to his retirement home near the lake in Park Rapids, Minn., with his wife, will be replaced by Steele County State's Attorney Charles Stock, who was appointed by the Traill County Commission to complete Larson's term. Since Larson retired halfway through his 10th term, the seat will be up for election in November 2018.What he said he will miss the most is the people he has gotten to know over the years. He had lunch with law enforcement officers once a week over the past 15 years."It's been a good 40 years. There are excellent people working in our courthouse. I had a really good working relationship with our county commissioners, all 20 of them," he said of past and present commissioners."It's people you are going to end up missing."...
Monday, January 02, 2017Hillsboro offers an excellent education through its schools, with the community accepting his family as one of their own.He also noted the location of Hillsboro, which sits halfway between Grand Forks and Fargo."One of the neat things is we are 45 minutes from either way, from two great communities: Grand Forks and Fargo," he said. "There are a lot of communities in this country that can't be rural, can't be small-town, and have that kind of connection if you want to go someplace with great services. That has turned out to be a great asset."Larson, who has moved to his retirement home near the lake in Park Rapids, Minn., with his wife, will be replaced by Steele County State's Attorney Charles Stock, who was appointed by the Traill County Commission to complete Larson's term. Since Larson retired halfway through his 10th term, the seat will be up for election in November 2018.What he said he will miss the most is the people he has gotten to know over the years. He had lunch with law enforcement officers once a week over the past 15 years."It's been a good 40 years. There are excellent people working in our courthouse. I had a really good working relationship with our county commissioners, all 20 of them," he said of past and present commissioners."It's people you are going to end up missing."This article passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article: The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017William B. Hart, 84, of Forksville, died Friday, April 14, 2017, at Towanda Memorial Hospital. Born November 13, 1932 in New Albany, he was a son of the late Raymond L. and Ethel (Baker) Hart. He and his wife, the former Nancy Taylor, would have celebrated 22 years of marriage on November 15, 2017. Bill was a dedicated and respected dairy farmer his entire life and was the fifth generation owner of High Hart Farms. As a young man, he was the recipient of the Keystone Farmer Award for outstanding farming, as-well-as many other conservation awards for farming. He was a member of the Susquehanna Car Club, the Ogdensburg Gun Club, Sullivan County Planning Commission, Evergreen Lodge #163 F. & A.M., and an honorary member of the Sullivan County Fair where he formerly served as vice president. He was a former member of the Sullivan County Conservation District, and past president of the Greenwood Cemetery Association. Bill enjoyed hunting with family and friends. He loved people so much; testified to by the cou...
Monday, March 13, 2017Wanda (Keifet) Stordahl (McIntosh, MN). Mother in law, Madeline Dufault and Father in law Lawrence Dufault (Gentilly, MN), brother in law, Randy Dufault and his wife Kathy (East Grand Forks, MN), brother in law Tony Dufault and wife Deb (Grand Forks, ND), brother in law, Robin Dufault and girlfriend, Diane (East Grand Forks), sister in law, Charlene Schlueter and husband Bob (Hutchinson, MN), sister in law Tammy Scheving and husband Roger, sister in law Lonie Woltjer and husband, Andy (Moorhead, MN) and brother in law, Marlin Dufault (Gentilly, MN) and many, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Nieces, Nephews and dear friends.Welcoming Jim to his heavenly home was his son Bryan and infant, Erin. His parents, Orville and Marion Stordahl and many beloved family members, friends and animals. In honor of Jim’s life, the family will be setting up the Jim Stordahl scholarship fund for Win-E-Mac students.
Monday, January 16, 2017GRAND FORKS -- The longtime director of North Dakota's geological core library at the University of North Dakota has died.Julie LeFever was in charge of the Laird Core and Sample Library on campus for 27 years, the only director the facility had.She died in Grand Forks Dec. 5, according to an obituary Tuesday. She was 63.The library was an important resource for the oil industry, researchers and students. State officials dedicated a $13.6 million expansion of the center in September, including a new lab named for LeFever. Before her death, LeFever had been selected to receive the 2017 Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.Jim Sorenson, principal geologist at the Energy and Environmental Research Center at UND, described LeFever as a “fantastic geologist” who knew the oil-rich Williston Basin in western North Dakota “better than anyone.”“She was the kind of person you could call up and talk rocks anytime,” Sorenson said of LeFever, who...
Conservationist Bud Lilly, 'a Trout's Best Friend,' Dies at 91 - New York Times
Monday, January 16, 2017Last year, his son Gregory told his Facebook followers to visit him for a chat on the porch of his father’s home, a converted boardinghouse, in Three Forks, Mont.“Chances are he’s out front, taking in some vitamin D,” Gregory Lilly wrote, “and waiting for a chance to talk about fishing or what it was like to be an officer in the Navy at age 19 during WWII.”...
Monday, January 09, 2017Hillsboro offers an excellent education through its schools, with the community accepting his family as one of their own.He also noted the location of Hillsboro, which sits halfway between Grand Forks and Fargo."One of the neat things is we are 45 minutes from either way, from two great communities: Grand Forks and Fargo," he said. "There are a lot of communities in this country that can't be rural, can't be small-town, and have that kind of connection if you want to go someplace with great services. That has turned out to be a great asset."Larson, who has moved to his retirement home near the lake in Park Rapids, Minn., with his wife, will be replaced by Steele County State's Attorney Charles Stock, who was appointed by the Traill County Commission to complete Larson's term. Since Larson retired halfway through his 10th term, the seat will be up for election in November 2018.What he said he will miss the most is the people he has gotten to know over the years. He had lunch with law enforcement officers once a week over the past 15 years."It's been a good 40 years. There are excellent people working in our courthouse. I had a really good working relationship with our county commissioners, all 20 of them," he said of past and present commissioners."It's people you are going to end up missing."...
Monday, January 02, 2017Hillsboro offers an excellent education through its schools, with the community accepting his family as one of their own.He also noted the location of Hillsboro, which sits halfway between Grand Forks and Fargo."One of the neat things is we are 45 minutes from either way, from two great communities: Grand Forks and Fargo," he said. "There are a lot of communities in this country that can't be rural, can't be small-town, and have that kind of connection if you want to go someplace with great services. That has turned out to be a great asset."Larson, who has moved to his retirement home near the lake in Park Rapids, Minn., with his wife, will be replaced by Steele County State's Attorney Charles Stock, who was appointed by the Traill County Commission to complete Larson's term. Since Larson retired halfway through his 10th term, the seat will be up for election in November 2018.What he said he will miss the most is the people he has gotten to know over the years. He had lunch with law enforcement officers once a week over the past 15 years."It's been a good 40 years. There are excellent people working in our courthouse. I had a really good working relationship with our county commissioners, all 20 of them," he said of past and present commissioners."It's people you are going to end up missing."This article passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers.Recommended article: The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False.
