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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 26514
Title: Mabel Falck
Date: 12/26/1927-7/9/2021
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Inscription/Marks: 12/26/1927
Summary: Mabel Falck, 93, of Lignite, ND passed away Friday, July 9, 2021 at the Trinity Hospital in Minot, ND. Mabel’s Celebration of Life was held at 11:00 AM, Saturday, July 17, 2021 at the Christ Lutheran Church in Lignite, ND. Burial was at the First Lutheran Cemetery in Lignite, ND. Mabel Falck was born December 26, 1927 in Burke County. Her parents were Emil and Martha Hagen. She attended elementary school in Columbus and graduated from Lignite High School in 1946. She went to Salem, Oregon where she worked for the Bell Telephone Company. She married Fred R. Falck on December 11, 1948 in Salem, Oregon. They spent the winter in Oregon and California and came back to North Dakota to make their home on the farm, where she has lived for 73 years as of 2021. Mabel was employed at the Lignite School and Burke Central School for 39 years as Secretary, Clerk and then the Business Manager. She enjoyed the daily contact with the students, teachers, other employees and the parents during these years. She retired in September 2002 and became involved with quilting at the Church. She also enjoyed gardening, mowing, embroidering, reading, playing cards, and puzzles. Mabel adored her family and treasured the visits from her granddaughter, Tatum with her husband Dan and her great-grandchildren from Indiana. She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Lignite, ND along with being a member of the Farmerette Homemakers Club. Mabel was also a 70-year charter member of the Monson Finkenhagen Post #35 American Legion Auxiliary. Mabel is survived by her daughter, Jane & Ray Sayler of Portal, ND; daughter-in-law, Candace Falck of Lignite, ND; granddaughter, Tatum & Dan Hovland and four great-grandchildren, Jayda, Elijah, Samuel and Isaac Hovland, all of Vincennes IN; sister, Arlene Clark of Pinedale, WY and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred; son, Fred J “Jerry” Falck; her parents; five brothers; five sisters; 4 sisters-in-law and 5 brothers-in-law.
Red ID: FND_I_76991 Image ID: 547542 Image Notes: FND001 26514

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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