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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 02016
Title: Fillmore P. Agnes
Date: 1930 - 2008
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 12/16/1930
Summary: Fillmore Agnes, age 77 of Bottineau, formerly of Rolette, passed away on Friday, May 9, 2008 at a Bottineau hospital. Mass of the Christian Burial was celebrated on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rolette. The celebrants for the mass were the Reverend Father Phillip Chako and the Reverend Father Tom Graner. Gail Tastad was the pianist and special music was provided by the Agnes family. Karen Weber and Rodney Agnes were the gift bearers and the readers were Stephanie Boucher and Kent Andre. Janel Agnes and Carolanne Dvorak were the Eucharistic Ministers. Casket bearers were Dennis Horpstad, Kent Andre, Al Dvorak, Keith Agnes, Tom Weber and Tim Shirk. Honorary casket bearers were all of Fillmore’s grandchildren. Burial was at the Sacred Heart Cemetery at Rolette. Fillmore Peter Agnes, a son of Mike and Josephine (Godes) Agnes, was born on December 16, 1930 at Trail, MN. He was baptized and confirmed at the St. Charles Catholic Church in Trail, MN. He attended grade school through the eighth grade at the Fairview Country School in Trail. He than began working on the family farm and other area farmers. He served overseas in the Korean War as a Signal Corp officer. On September 1, 1955, he married Joyce Marcelene Horswill at the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Oklee, MN. Following their marriage, he worked at the St. James Iron Mine in Aurora, MN. They later moved to Rolette where he worked as a heavy equipment operator for Rolette County and he later worked at the Rolette Elevator. He was injured at the elevator in 1989. He received his GED in 1990 and then went on to earn his 2 year accounting degree from the Turtle Mountain Community College. He worked for his son, Steven at Agnes Vision Center in Rolette and in the late 1990’s he began working as an accountant for Rolette County HUD. He and Joyce were in Uganda, Africa from 1996 until 1998 doing missionary work. In 2006, he entered the Bottineau Good Samaritan Center where he has resided since. He is survived by his wife, Joyce of Bottineau; 3 sons, Steven Miles Agnes of Fargo, David Michael Agnes (Janel) of Bottineau, and Jeffrey Peter Agnes (Stephanie) of Brooklyn Park, MN; 2 daughters Catherine Michelle Andre (Kent) of Vermillion, SD and Carolanne Jeane Dvorak (Al) of Bismarck; 11 grandchildren, Bocephus Alan Agnes, McKinley James Agnes, Madison Anne Agnes, Niko Peter Agnes, Cole Douglas Andre, Carter James Andre, Victoria Joyce Andre, Alexa Jo Dvorak, Grant Allan Dvorak, Tonya Michelle Dvorak and Landen Dean Dvorak; sister, Virginia Weber (Tony) of Trail, MN; brother-in-law, Roger Hanson of Mayville and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Jerona Hanson and one brother, Franklin Agnes.
Red ID: FND_I_61916 Image ID: 513411 Image Notes: FND001 02016

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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