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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 04323
Title: Pearl G. Altenburg
Date: 1937 - 2009
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 3/18/1937
Summary: Pearl Gaye Altenburg, 72, of Williston, ND died on July 18, 2009 at the Mercy Medical Center in Williston, surrounded by the love of her family. Memorial services were held July 22, 2009 at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Williston. Reverends David and Lorna Halaas co-officiated and interment of her cremains were held at a private family ceremony at a later date at the Hillside Memory Gardens in Williston, North Dakota. Pearl G. Altenburg was born to Francis and Fern (Owen) Ulschak at Dickinson, ND on March 18, 1937. She was raised in Dickinson and educated there. She graduated from Dickinson High School in 1955 and continued her education at Dickinson State College and NDSU at Fargo, ND. She earned her teaching degree in home economics and began teaching at Ashley, ND in 1959. On June 7, 1959 she was united in marriage to Roger Altenburg at Dickinson. To this union four children were raised. This past June they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. In her earlier child-rearing years, Pearl was blessed to be a stay at home mother, a vocation that she loved thoroughly. Then in 1977 she returned to the teaching profession in Williston, where she taught many students “Parenting Skills” at Williston High School. She later became the program director and eventually the director of the very highly acclaimed Williston Head Start Program, which allowed her to stay connected to children as young as 4 years old. This truly was Pearl’s life passion, young children, until she retired. In their retirement together, they began traveling in their fifth wheel camper and proceeded to visit all 50 states making many friends along the way, North Dakota being Pearl's favorite. Together serving as president of the Sakakawea Good Sam Chapter, they continued to socialize and camp with friends throughout North Dakota. Pearl also loved quilting with her Circle at Gloria Dei, playing cards (especially pinochle with her friends at the Heritage Center), participating in water aerobics and mostly spending time with her family and cooking and doing crafts with her grandchildren. She is survived by her husband Roger, daughter, Susan Thompson (Shane) Underdahl, of Grand Forks, ND and their children, Navy, Fiona, Beck Thompson, Alexa, Chloe and Jaiden Underdahl; son, Master Sergeant Mark (Lisa) Altenburg, of Panama City, FL and their children, Skyler, Legend and Riley; daughter, Karen (Brad) Krenz, of Williston and their children, Comstock, Fynn, and Sulley; daughter Joan (Shane) Tangedal, of Devils Lake, ND and their children, Isabella and Gabriella, and her sister, Coral O’Connell, of Fargo, ND.
Red ID: FND_I_61947 Image ID: 518171 Image Notes: FND001 04323

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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