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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 270881
Title: Ronald "Ron" B. Rivinius
Date: 7/15/1946-8/12/2022
Inscription/Marks: 7/15/1946
Summary: Ronald Benjamin Rivinius, aka “Batman,” 76, Bismarck, ND, departed in grace in his Bismarck home with his family at his side on August 12, 2022. Funeral services were held August 18, 2022, at St. Anne's Catholic Church, Bismarck, with Fr. Jeffrey Zwack officiating. Burial was at North Dakota Veterans Cemetery with Honor Guard and flag presentation by the VFW. Ron was born at the Bismarck Hospital on July 15, 1946, the son of Benjamin and Evelyn (Standley) Rivinius. Though he was born and raised in North Dakota, he was always proud of his mother’s Texas roots. Ron graduated from Bismarck High School in 1964. Ron worked for his dad from his early years up through graduation, beginning at around age 12 at Ben’s Electric, his father’s namesake business. After graduating, Ron joined the Army National Guard of North Dakota in 1965. Here he became a rifle sharpshooter and learned the trade of cooking for his fellow servicemen. After basic training, he served as reservist until his honorable discharge in 1971. Throughout these years he worked as an electrician in places like Montana, Washington state, and Southern California. Ron met his future wife, Mary Heisler, in Bismarck, while he was playing trumpet in a band called The Fabulous Dimensions. Ron and Mary moved to California where they started their family, having their first child there, a daughter. Later they moved back to Bismarck where they had their three sons. At this time, Ron returned to work at Ben’s Electric once again, his mother and father’s business. Eventually, Ron and the family moved to the country east of Bismarck, where he could live his lifelong dream of having horses. At that time they had two more daughters. In the mid 1980s, after moving back into town, Ron’s first marriage ended, and he remarried. For the last 20 years of his life, he was a single man, enjoying his children and grandchildren. Ron enjoyed the simple things in life, such as riding horses, rodeos, fishing, nature, powwows, ranching, traveling, boating, and helping Jim Clement on Jim’s ranch south of Mandan, all of which he truly enjoyed doing with the grandchildren. Ron will be greatly missed by his children from his first marriage, Julie (Shane) Bogden, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Joe Rivinius, Jacinta (Troy) Baker, and Anna Rivinius Gibson, all of Bismarck; nine grandchildren (in order), Justine Baker, Bismarck, Megan Bogden, Edmonton, Ashley Baker and Raynathan Foolbear, both of Bismarck, Jaden Bogden, Edmonton, TJ Baker and Dominic Rivinius, both of Bismarck, Kaden Bogden, Edmonton, and D’anna Gibson, Bismarck; two sisters, Susan (Richard) Paul, Bismarck, and Sandy (Vince) Williams, Maple Lake, MN; and one brother, Stanley Rivinius, Las Vegas, NV. He was preceded in death by his parents; one son, Michael Rivinius; and one granddaughter, Joy Kephart.
Red ID: FND_I_78377

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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