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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 270938
Title: Vivian R. Schirado
Date: 5/1/1935-4/20/2021
Inscription/Marks: 5/1/1935
Summary: Vivian Rosemary Schirado, 85, Bismarck, ND, passed away April 20, 2021. Mass of Christian Burial was held April 27, 2021, at Church of St. Anne. Burial was at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan, ND. Vivian R. Sabot was born May 1, 1935, to Vincent and Grace (Gabel) Sabot. She attended Gibbs School and St. Mary’s Central High School. She worked at St. Alexius Hospital and White Drug in Bismarck. She married Nick Schirado on September 20, 1954. They raised four children, Kathleen Kay Swenson, Cindy (Andy) Koenig, Julie (Jeff) Schirado Kuss and Douglas (Dena) Schirado. Vivian went back to work in 1979 at the North Dakota Grocers Association. She was very active in St. Anne’s Church ministry of communion and serving communion to the homebound. She taught CCD for fifteen years. She spent many years caring for Kathleen, her sick daughter. Vivian loved being with her family and friends. She enjoyed golfing and playing cards. She delivered Meals on Wheels and volunteered with the women’s auxiliary at the church. She loved helping her daughter Julie with animal rescue, baking, and fundraising. Vivian is survived by her children, and five grandchildren, Melissa (Walter) McDaniel Brooks, Chad (Susan) Swenson, Brandon (Kim) Swenson, and Devin and Benjamin Schirado; and four great-grandchildren, Walter McDaniel Brooks Jr., Carter, Brenna, and Adalyn Swenson (the triplets).
Red ID: FND_I_78433 Image ID: 599622 Image Notes: FND001 270938

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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