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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 11288
Title: Bruce B. Bair
Date: 1928 - 2010
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Inscription/Marks: 5/26/1928
Summary: Bruce B. Bair, 82, died on August 8, 2010 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN after a short illness. Mass of Christian Burial was held August 13, 2010 at Christ the King Catholic Church, Mandan, ND with Rev. Kenneth Phillips as celebrant and Rev. Albert Leary as Homilist. Burial was at the Mandan Union Cemetery. Bruce was born in St. Paul, MN, on May 26, 1928 to Bruce B. Bair and Emma Stone Bair. He was raised in Flaxton, ND. On July 19, 1952, he married Jane Lawler in Grand Forks, ND. He recently celebrated his 58th wedding anniversary with Jane, the love of his life. Bruce received a Juris Doctor degree in 1952 from the University of North Dakota. He was a First Lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General’s Department of the United States Air Force at Hill Air Force Base, UT from 1952 until 1955. He joined John Lord and Leland Ulmer’s law practice in Mandan in 1955. Bruce was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of North Dakota, the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Law and The Best Lawyers in America. Bruce practiced law for 58 years and at the time of his death was a partner with his son, Tom, in the Bair Law Firm, LLP. Bruce also served on the board of directors for the Bank of Tioga for 50 years. Bruce represented he North Dakota Milk Marketing Board from 1967-2010, and was a Special Assistant Attorney General for the state of North Dakota. He was the United States counsel for the International Association of Milk Control Agencies from 1970 through 2000. Bruce loved the outdoors and was an avid skier, sailor, photographer, and bird hunter. However, his favorite pastime was playing the tenor saxophone. He had a gift for jazz improvisation. He was a longtime member of Big Al’s Big Band and many other musical groups in the Mandan-Bismarck community. Bruce enjoyed sharing his knowledge and passion for these hobbies with his family. Family reunions, ski trips to Montana and Colorado, summer weekends at Heart Butte, and hunting trips, especially to Bowbells, ND, were an important part of his life. Bruce will be greatly missed by his wife, Jane, Mandan; nine children, Mary Jane Bair, Wallace, ID, and her children, Charlie and Carrie Roberts; Tom (Jackie) Bair, Mandan, and their children, Emily, Charlie, and Patrick Bair; Sue (Jim) Fristad, Grand Forks, ND, and their children, Elizabeth and Kathryn Fristad; Barbara Bair (Glen Hartman), and their children, Julian and Glenna Hartman; Patty (Mark) Reid, Kingwood, TX, and their children, Eric, Brian, and Alyssa Reid; Jim Bair (Kim Johnson Bair), Madison, WI; Joan Becker, Cooperstown, ND and her children, Lindsay and Allison Becker; Bruce B. Bair, III, Santa Monica, CA, and his children, Trent and Daniel Gould; and Jeff Bair, Salt Lake City, UT; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents.
Red ID: FND_I_62052 Image ID: 523749 Image Notes: FND001 11288

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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