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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 270880
Title: Helen C. Rivinius
Date: 9/11/1924-6/9/2023
Inscription/Marks: 9/11/1924
Summary: Helen C. Rivinius, 98, Bismarck, ND, passed away June 9, 2023, at a Bismarck Hospital. A funeral service was held June 13, 2023, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Bismarck. Burial was at Sunset Cemetery, Bismarck. Helen Christine Holtan was born September 11, 1924, to Horace and Kristine (Nielson) Holtan in Washburn, ND. She attended school in Falkirk, ND, and graduated from Washburn High School in 1942. She was employed with the State Motor Vehicle Department and the Unemployment Compensation Division at the capitol in Bismarck. Helen was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Bismarck, where she was active in the Lutheran Daughters of Reformation, better known as the L.D.R of which she served as circuit president. She married Harold J. Rivinius on January 2, 1950, and he passed away on December 13, 1993. They were blessed with twins, Carol Jean and Paul John, and two grandchildren, Alicia and Jonathan. She is survived by her son, Paul Rivinius, Bismarck; grandchildren, Alicia Wilma and her husband Craig Mickelson, Mahtomedi, MN, and Jonathan Wilma, Bismarck; son-in-law, Mike Wilma, Bismarck; sisters, Donna Kleingartner, Bismarck, and Joy Larison, Peru, IL. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold; daughter, Carol Wilma; and her parents, Horace and Kristine Holtan.
Red ID: FND_I_78376

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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