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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 270961
Title: Mary Schuler
Date: 7/29/1950-5/14/2023
Inscription/Marks: 7/29/1950
Summary: Mary Homsey Schuler passed away May 14, 2023, at home with her daughters at her side. A memorial service was held May 25, 2023, at St. Georges Episcopal Church, Bismarck. Burial was at Sunset Memorial Gardens, Bismarck. Mary Homsey was born July 29, 1950, to Freda and Ahethophal “Toby” Homsey in Bismarck. In 1955 her father, a contractor, built a family home in a newly developing neighborhood, Highland Acres. Mary would end up living in this home her whole life and raising her own family in it. Mary graduated high school in 1968 from Bismarck High School. After a brief stint at Bismarck Junior College trying her hand at computers, she decided it wasn’t for her and went into the family business of hairdressing. She graduated from Joseph’s School of Hair design in Bismarck in 1970 and worked for her mother in the Swirl & Curl Salon in Bismarck. She eventually left her mother’s salon and went to work at Regis Salon inside of JC Penney’s in Bismarck. She worked there until the mid 80s. In 1984 she married Harold Schuler. After a famous North Dakota spring blizzard on April 28, 1984, the couple was finally able to get married on April 29. The couple resided in Bismarck and Mary became a stay-at-home mom to raise the couple’s two children, Janel and Jennifer. Mary continued to be a homemaker for many years while also helping to do the bookkeeping for her husband’s trucking company. After her children were in school, she eventually went back into the work force doing things that would accommodate her family’s busy life. Some things she did were noon supervisor for Bismarck Public Schools, sterile technician for an orthodontist office, back behind the chair cutting hair, and eventually doing retail for salon supply stores. After leaving the workforce Mary kept herself busy in so many ways. She tended to her garden, yard, and house, harassed (in the most loving way possible) her adult kids, had the opportunity to be a grandma, and most importantly, sitting on her patio enjoying a beer. Summer was her favorite time of year, and she enjoyed spending as much time in the sun as possible. Mary is survived by her daughters, Janel (Kasey Welch) and Jennifer (Andrew Amundson); and her two granddaughters, Charlie and Dylan Welch, whom she liked better than her own daughters (just kidding mom, don’t haunt us). She was preceded in death by her husband Harold; her mother, Freda; her father, Ahethophal; mother-in-law, Ella Schuler, and father-in-law, Herb Schuler.
Red ID: FND_I_78453 Image ID: 599641 Image Notes: FND001 270961

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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