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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 270946
Title: Lorraine Schmidt
Date: 10/30/1932-9/14/2023
Inscription/Marks: 10/30/1932
Summary: Lorraine Schmidt, 90, Mandan, ND, passed away September 14, 2023. A funeral service was held September 22, 2023, at Bethel Lutheran Church, Bismarck, ND. Burial was at Fairview Cemetery, Bismarck. Lorraine Schmidt was born to Wilson and Odelia (Della) Schmidt in rural Max, ND, where she grew up on a farm and first attended country school and later graduated from Max High School in 1950. She went on to study at Minot Business College, and in 1957 she graduated with a business degree. After working in Minot for several years, she accepted a job at Montana Dakota Utilities in Minneapolis, MN. She later transferred to Bismarck where she continued to work for MDU until she retired. She met and married her husband, Edgar, and together they raised one son, Kevin, who was the center of their lives and who most definitely kept them young! Together they maintained a home in Bismarck as well as a farm in Ruso, ND. Lorraine loved to spend time gardening. She would spend hours in the garden, which was quite large, growing everything from potatoes to watermelon! She had a passion for music and loved playing the piano and the organ at the church in Kongsberg on occasion. She adored her two grandchildren, Ivy and Ryder, and would always make sure they ate plenty of snacks, which was mostly candy, when spending time with them. Lorraine was an amazing mother, grandmother, and friend to everyone she would meet. She is survived by her son, Kevin, (Destiny); two grandchildren, Ryder and Ivy; one sister, Marlene Sorenson (Paul); a sister-in-law, Marian Schmidt; and several nieces and nephews. Lorraine was preceded in death by her parents, Wilson and Odelia; her husband, Edgar; and three brothers, Arnold, Elmer, and Gerald Schmidt.
Red ID: FND_I_78439 Image ID: 599627 Image Notes: FND001 270946

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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