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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 23684
Title: Rubie Haag
Date: 8/27/1927-12/25/2017
Inscription/Marks: 8/27/1927
Summary: Rubie Haag, 90, New Rockford, ND, died December 25, 2017, at Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd, New Rockford, where she had resided for the past year. Her funeral service was December 29, 2017, at Evans Funeral Home, New Rockford, with Rev. Richard Biberdorf officiating. Burial was in Prairie Home Cemetery, New Rockford. Rubie Lautt was born August 27, 1927, on the family farm in Logan County, ND, to Fred G. and Margaret (Kranzler) Lautt, the youngest of six children. She grew up on the farm and went to school in a one-room school house on the prairies of North Dakota. She loved to ride her pony with which she helped herd the cattle and sheep. She loved farm life. Rubie and her older sister Marie performed in local talent shows, singing mostly hymns, and they usually won a prize. Ruby married Arthur W. Haag in 1947, in Fredonia, ND, where they lived until moving to Emrick, ND, in 1955. In 1958 the family moved to New Rockford. After her three oldest children left home, she started cleaning houses and was later a housekeeper at the Rockford Hotel until it burned down. She did caregiver work for a few years, then worked at City Hospital as a housekeeper for 19 years until it closed, and later was housekeeper for the New Rockford Community Clinic for over 19 years. Rubie was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, the LWML, and the American Legion Auxiliary for over 50 years. She was an avid reader and liked to crochet, sew, do latch hook, and garden. She did a lot of canning, and her children and grandchildren loved the chokecherry jam and cucumber relish she made each year. Rubie is survived by her children, Sharon Young, New Rockford, Harold, Wilmington, DE, Ruth (Mike) Bush, New Rockford, and Lori (Dean) Belgarde, Hatton, ND; grandchildren, Desiree (Justin) Young-Zeiba, Jess (Brenda) Bush, Sheree Bush, Caitlin (Bryan) Haag-Murphy, Veronica Belgarde and Vincent Belgarde; great-grandchildren, Quintrell Coleman, Braxton Hewitt, and Savannah Hoskin; nephews, Clifford Nitschke, Clarence Nitschke, Roger Koenig, LeRoy Lautt, and Marlo Lautt; niece Linda Drew; and sister, Marie Wittmayer, Bismarck, ND. Rubie was preceded in death by her parents; husband; infant son William; brothers, Walter, Ted, and Harold; sister, Katie Nitschke; and nephew, Arnold Lautt.
Red ID: FND_I_74352 Image ID: 556751 Image Notes: FND001 23684

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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