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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 03047
Title: Lorene D. Albert
Date: 1925 - 2007
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Inscription/Marks: 9/23/1925
Summary: Lorene Marcus Albert, 81, a longtime Williston, North Dakota resident passed away on Thursday, January 11, 2007, at the St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula, Montana of natural causes. Her Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30 AM on Saturday, January 20, 2007, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Williston by Father John Guthrie. Interment will follow in the Riverview Cemetery in Williston. She was born Lorene Delores Marcus on September 23, 1925 in Clarion, Iowa to Louise (Hanson) and Daniel Otto Marcus. Her grandparents, the Hannson’s and Marcuson’s, had immigrated to Iowa from Eidsvag, Norway; they shortened their names to Hanson and Marcus when arriving in the U.S. Lorene’s early years were spent in Jewel, Iowa and Dumont, Collis and Graceville, Minnesota where her family farmed. It was here she developed a life aversion to chickens and eggs. During World War II she went to be with her sister, Frances, in Minneapolis. While working there she met Michael Albert, a handsome North Dakota native sent to the University of Minnesota by the Navy. After a whirlwind romance she followed him to Rhode Island where they married and he promptly shipped out to the South Seas. She went home to Minnesota to stay with her sister, Florence, while Mike saw intense action in the Philippines as an engineer on a PT boat. After the war, Mike and Lorene made their home in Williston, North Dakota where Mike took over the Albert family farm. Lorene enjoyed refinishing furniture and antiquing when it had not quite become the in thing in the early sixties. She was excellent in numerous crafts and arts. As a seamstress, she made clothes for her daughters and their dolls. She made beautiful pieces of art out of carved wood covered with antique jewelry. She also crocheted beautiful doilies and a full sized bedspread. She dearly loved auctions, antique sales, and rummage sales where she would salvage beautiful sets of hardwood furniture and china in a time when steel, formica and melamine were the norm and all types of wood were being burned or thrown into the farm yards. She had never really learned to drive but ordered her license in the forties when no tests were taken. If Mike was out of town she would brave the streets to go to an auction in her El Camino with a kid in each window telling her if any cars were coming. Lorene was an avid gardener and wonderful cook. Lorene lived in Williston until October of 2006 when she moved to Missoula to be closer to three of her daughters. Lorene was a member of the Women’s VFW. She was very active in her Church as a member of the Women’s Altar Society and as a leader with the Catholic Daughter’s Group when her daughters were young. Lorene was preceded in death by her parents, Louise and Daniel Marcus; her husband, Mike; her brother, Lyle Marcus; her sister, Frances Braun; her granddaughter, Kristi Boyce Ogren; and her son-in-law, Erik (Rik) Ogren. She is survived by her four daughters: Daughter Kathryn Ogren of Missoula and Kathryn’s five children and grandchildren: Lisa (Noah) Castle and daughter, Presley; Erik (Jennifer) Ogren and son Erik; Whitney Fisher; Amy Fisher and children Madyson and Mark Vanover, all of Missoula; Son, Michael (Melissa) Ogren and children, Jacob and Joshua of Minneapolis. Daughter Karen, (Gary) Walden of Missoula and their children and grandchildren: Lorri (Kevin) Nelson and children Tyler, Andrew and Evelyn of Billings, Montana; and son David Walden of Bozeman, Montana. Daughter Marlene (John) Sandaker of Williston, North Dakota and their four children and grandchildren: Jennifer (Carl) Moser and children Savannah, Sophia and Cruise of Bismarck, North Dakota; Julie (Hunter) Berg and children Brecklyn, Irelyn, Jersey, Gunnar, Quinn, Ty and Walker, of Williston, ND; Jackie Sandaker of Phoenix AZ, and Gina Sandaker of Missoula, MT. Daughter Marlys (Jim) Rulon of Helena, Montana. She is further survived by her sister, Florence Deal of Herman, Minnesota, sister, Fern (Howard) Tiggeman of Torrance, California, her special sister-in-law, Katie Isaacson of Minot, ND, sisters-in-law, Mary Cook, Betty Flanagan and Martha Bush of Sacramento, CA and brothers-in-law Eli and John Albert of San Diego, CA and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Lorene was a life-long member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Williston, North Dakota.
Red ID: FND_I_61924 Image ID: 513782 Image Notes: FND001 03047

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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