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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 270846
Title: Karene M. Quast
Date: 10/5/1940-5/29/2024
Inscription/Marks: 10/5/1940
Summary: Karene Quast, 83, of Bismarck, ND, passed away May 29, 2024, after a long battle with Parkinson’s. A memorial service was held June 5, 2024, at Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck. Burial was at Kulm Seventh Day Adventist Church Cemetery in Kulm, ND. Karene Margaret Onstad was born October 5, 1940, in Pine City, MN, the only child of Florence and Alf Onstad. Karene met Roger Quast while attending Union College in Lincoln, NE, and they were married four years later on July 8, 1962. Karene and Roger lived in Germany the first few years of their marriage as Roger was in the Army and Karene the civil service. After their time in Germany, they lived in North Dakota and Colorado, eventually settling in Bismarck. Roger taught at Bismarck High School and Karene was a registered nurse at St. Alexius. Karene and Roger had four children, five grandchildren and many foster grandchildren. Karene was an excellent RN. She was the director of ICU and telemetry for many years, contributed the AirCare, TCU and purchasing of major equipment while at St. Alexius. She loved her work and her nickname of KQ, RN. Karene was an amazing person, loving, kind and supportive with keen intelligence and wonderful sense of humor. She was 100% Norwegian and loved gardening, quilting and animals but mostly she loved connecting with others. Karene was the best mother and wife there ever was. The loss of Karene is great and the hole she leaves is deep. We can't wait to hug her and hear her voice again when Jesus comes. Karene is survived by her husband, Roger; their children, Mark (AnnMarie), Center, ND, Michael (Lonna), Mandan ND, Marlow (Genevieve), Phoenix, AZ, and daughter Monee', Bismarck, ND; grandchildren, Nadia, KennaDee, Michaela, Anders and Sabine, and many foster grandchildren; sister-in-law, Susan (Wayne) Schlafmann; brother-in-law, Richard (Janis) Dean; nieces and nephews, Monte (Heather) Dean, Morre (Katrina) Dean, Jill (Gerard) Goven, Paul Schlafmann and Roz (Ben) Ereth.
Red ID: FND_I_78344

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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