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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 26750
Title: Steve Hartman
Date: 2/25/1956-5/22/2021
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 2/25/1956
Summary: North Dakota is mourning the loss of a true cowboy, husband, dad, brother, friend and so much more when he hung up his spurs Saturday, May 22, 2021, at the age of 65. Steve Hartman was born on February 25, 1956, in Carrington, North Dakota, to Ray and Patricia (Stowell) Hartman. Steve grew up on the family farm north of Sykeston and completed his schooling through the 12th grade from Sykeston High School. A Celebration of Life for Steve Hartman, 65, of Medora was from 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Saturday, June 5, 2021, at the HartCross Ranch North of Medora. Steve has always been an active man. In his younger years, Steve did everything from playing basketball & boxing in high school, helping his family on the farm, to training horses. He and his brother Russ used to team up at the Wells County horse racing track where Steve trained the horses & Russ would be the jockey in the races. They were quite the dynamic duo. Steve decided to stop racing in the early 1980s. He sold his winning race horse for $25,000 in Chicago and decided to use this money to become a business owner. So Steve started Hartman Crane Service and worked in the oilfield for 16 years while he raised his family. In 1999, he sold his crane but remained working in the oil field and made it his life’s work. In 1992, he met the love of his life, Connie, where they hung their hats in Steve’s log home north of Dickinson. During this time, Steve & Connie purchased acreage north of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park where they set in a log cabin which eventually became their home in 2000. After 18 years of courtship, Steve finally proposed and they were married at the HartCross ranch in the badlands of North Dakota on their grandson Jace’s second birthday July 24, 2010. For those of us who knew Steve, he was legendary with tall tales, nicknames like “Reverend Hartman” and a million smiles & jokes followed him in his travels. His gruff voice, firm handshake, and his strong presence was his calling card. Steve would help anyone who needed it & quick to show appreciation when he was on the receiving end. It’s honestly a shorter list of people he didn’t know than the ones he did, especially in the energy industry, where he worked his whole entire adult life. Steve was an active lifetime member of the American Quarter Association; N.D. Thoroughbred Association (past president); ND Racing Commissioner; ND Cutting Horse Association; ND Team Penning Association; Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and mentor & teacher in horsemanship for the incarcerated youths of Southwest Multi-County Correction Center. He leaves behind his wife, Connie; his daughter Jamie (Ryan) Sorenson Bismarck, ND; his son Derrick Fargo, ND, grandson Jace, brother Russ of Hereford, AZ; sisters Trish (Dave) Greenwood Jamestown, ND; & Shelly (Chuck) Dahl Hazen, ND, father-in-law, Ray Kadrmas Dickinson, ND, sister-in-law’s Renee’ (Leonard) Hysell Mountain View, WY; Cheryl (Gary) Kohler; Jolyn Bliss; Mary (David) Ell; Susette (Keith) Ridl all of Dickinson, ND; brother-in-law Keith (Leann) Minot, ND with many numerous nieces & nephews and his grand-niece, Rayna, his special little cowgirl. Steve is preceded in death by his loving parents, Ray & Pat Hartman, his sister, Joanne, his mother-in-law, Georgia & brother-in-law Kevin Kadrmas.
Red ID: FND_I_77217 Image ID: 547513 Image Notes: FND001 26750

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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