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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 04221
Title: Alvin Almer
Date: 1929 - 2010
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Inscription/Marks: 8/13/1929
Summary: Alvin Almer, 81, Tuttle, ND died September 1, 2010, at his farm home north of Tuttle. Services were held at English Lutheran Church, Tuttle, with Rev. Valerie Kinlan officiating. Burial was in the Goodrich Cemetery. Alvin was born August 13, 1929, near Goodrich, ND to Daniel and Marie (Meier) Almer. He graduated from Tuttle High School in 1948. He taught one year in a country school near Dickinson after graduation. While in high school, he played basketball and enjoyed amateur baseball in the summers for many years. Alvin attended one quarter of school at the North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo. While there he met Marlys Thompson of Wyndmere, ND and they were married on October 21, 1950. They made their home north of Tuttle on the Daniel Almer farm, moving to their present farm in 1962. He served as Stewart Township treasurer, was on the Tuttle School Board, and was a member of the Tuttle Wildlife Club for many years. Family memories include how much Alvin believed in farming, John Deere tractors, Ford pickups and “clearing the land.” Acres and acres of brush were burned and enough rocks were picked, hauled, bulldozed, raked and buried to reach the moon and back - just ask his family or any of the many kids and adults he hired to pick rock through the years. Once the land was cleared, he believed in planting durum, durum, and more durum. Farming practices in those years deemed that land which was summer fallowed had to be black and Alvin’s fields were kept pitch black. Later in life, he became the official bale hauler using the only bale wagon in the area. Just this past summer he remarked that he wished he could still haul bales. Alvin enjoyed a lot of “quality time” with his grandkids as they were growing up. This quality time involved boxing gloves, torrential water fights (sorry, Grandma!), remote control car races, and shooting baskets (yes, in the house) for quarters. Grandpa Alvin also loved to wager with the grandkids (and other people as well) on virtually anything and everything, from game show answers to Twins games or how much a field was going to yield. For some reason, Grandpa always had to pay his debts and the grandkids did not! As everyone knows, you can always tell a German, but you can’t tell him much. This was very true of our Dad, who was proud of his German ancestry (but loved lutefisk nonetheless). Despite his sometimes gruff exterior, our Dad truly had a soft spot for anyone down on their luck. Alvin is survived by his wife of 59 years, Marlys, Tuttle; his three children, Wesley (Cindy) Almer, Allen (Myra) Almer and Joni (Tracy) Magstadt; his grandchildren, Joey, Travis (Michelle), Billi Jo, Morgan, Troy (Rochelle) Brooke, Marin, and Drew; his great grandchildren, Tyler, Wyatt, Maya, and Quincy; his brothers, Merle (Albertine), Eugene (Liz), and Dean; his sisters, Delores Leland and Harriet Solheim; and many special nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; and one great granddaughter, Jacqueline.
Red ID: FND_I_61946 Image ID: 518170 Image Notes: FND001 04221

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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