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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 270858
Title: Ronald "Ron" Rehurek
Date: 4/4/1949-1/11/2024
Inscription/Marks: 4/4/1949
Summary: Ronald “Ron” Rehurek, 74, of Dickinson, ND, passed away January 11, 2024, at CHI St. Alexius Health in Dickinson. Funeral services were held January 17, 2024, at Stevenson Funeral Home with Pastor Scott Skones officiating. Military Honors were presented by the Dickinson American Legion Post #3 Honor Guard. Ronald Rehurek was born April 4, 1949, in Yankton, SD, to Calvin Alfred and Lorraine (Hamberger) Rehurek. Ron graduated from Tyndall High School in 1969. Ron joined the US Army National Guard after high school. Ron attended many weekend duties, summer trainings, and served during the Rapid City Flood in 1972. Ron graduated from South Dakota State University where he received his bachelor’s degree in education. Ron was an excellent finish carpenter and worked in Sioux Falls, SD, where he met Linda R. Dvorak. Together they had three children, Brian, Tamara and Sara. His construction work took him to Bismarck and then to Connecticut. Ron worked for Design Build Group of Nebraska where he built and remodeled Seventh Day Adventist Churches in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. Ron and Linda divorced in 1995. Ron moved to Dickinson where he began working for Kolling and Kolling for over 30 years. He was then employed at Roers until taking a job in 2014 with Edgewood Hawks Point as a maintenance technician. Ron and Deb Kudrna were friends who in 2006 decided to join hearts and hands in love and continue their lives together. The couple enjoyed traveling in their motor home and spending time with each other’s families and friends in Virginia, Montana and North Dakota. Ron enjoyed a good board game, pinochle, camping in the mountains, hunting in his younger years, and dancing. Ron and Deb spent many hours antique shopping and outfitting the motorhome for their next adventure. Ron is survived by his mother, Lorraine (Hamberger) Rehurek, of Tyndall, SD; children, Brian Rehurek (Kim), of Mandan, ND, Tamara (Joseph) Huston, of Garrison, ND, and Sara (Shubham) Verma, of Dickinson, ND; grandson, Beckett James Huston, of Garrison, ND; brothers, Allen and Terry Rehurek, of Tyndall; sisters, Sharon (Rudy) Bitterman, of Tripp, SD, Lou Rehurek, of Sioux Falls, Candy (Keith) Raysby, of Avon, SD; life partner, Deb Kudrna, of Dickinson, and her family, Alex (Jayme) Daniels, Emilia and Alyssa of Virginia Beach, VA; Katie (Mike) Chorne, Scarlett, Easton, Willow, Simon and Winnie, of Mandan, ND; Jonathan (Rachel Trudell) Kudrna, of Billings, MT; former wife, Linda R. Dvorak, of Dickinson, ND; and numerous nieces and nephews. Ron was preceded in death by his father, Calvin Alfred Rehurek and infant brothers, Calvin Lee Rehurek and Donald Rehurek.
Red ID: FND_I_78355

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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