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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 23674
Title: Ruth I. Deckert
Date: 12/7/1922-12/19/2017
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Inscription/Marks: 12/7/1922
Summary: Ruth Isabel Deckert, 95, Arena, ND, went to be with the Lord on December 19, 2017. Services were held December 23, 2017, at Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck, ND. Burial was held at the Mennonite Zion Cemetery, Arena. Ruth Mertz was born December 7, 1922, in Goodrich, ND, to Leonard and Rose Mertz. Her family moved south of Wing, ND, where she attended school in Lein Township. As a teenager Ruth worked for various families in the area. She later moved to Bismarck with her sister, Ella, where she worked for the A. W. Lucas Co. as a waitress. At the age of 18, she met the love of her life, Bernard Deckert, and they married June 18, 1945. The couple built their farm at Arena where Ruth resided until her death. She was active in the Mennonite Zion Church in Arena and the Nazarene Church in Tuttle, ND. She and Bernard were active members of the Gideons International for 38 years until his death, after which Ruth continued to be a supporter of the ministry. Ruth loved taking care of her family, cooking, baking, sewing, embroidering, and gardening. She always had a piece of pie and coffee for anyone who stopped by. Ruth loved her farm life and kept busy taking care of her lawn with her riding lawn mower. Ruth is survived by her four daughters and two sons-in-law, Carol Stevenson, Bremerton, WA, Lois Oster, Lincoln, ND, Linda (Larry) Stenson, Minot, ND, and Bonnie (Scott) Doll, Washburn, ND; 12 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Leroy (Margaret) Mertz, Bismarck, and James (Lois) Mertz, Wilton, ND; sister-in-law, Burnette Teske, Moorhead, MN; brother-in-law, Orville (Maria) Deckert, Bismarck; as well as many nieces and nephews. Ruth was preceded in death by her husband, Bernard; parents, Leonard and Rose; and her four sisters, Evelyn, Ella, Viola, and Jeanette.
Red ID: FND_I_74342 Image ID: 555651 Image Notes: FND001 23674

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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