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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271007
Title: Alvina Soehren
Date: 12/30/1935-6/26/2024
Inscription/Marks: 12/30/1935
Summary: Alvina Soehren, 88, of Dickinson, ND, passed away June 26, 2024, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Billings, MT. A funeral Mass was held July 12, 2024, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Dickinson with Father Robert Shea celebrating. Burial was at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan, ND. Alvina Magelky was born December 30, 1935, in Havelock, ND, to Steven and Emma (Huether) Magelky. She was raised on the family farm just outside of Regent, ND, where she helped with chores and attended a one-room school house across the road, until taking a job as a waitress at a local café in town. Alvina married Eldon Soehren on June 6, 1957, in Regent. The couple was blessed with three children, Wayne, Michael and Deirdre. Eldon ’ s career took the family to numerous cities in North Dakota until they settled in Watford City in 1969. Alvina worked at the Chuck Wagon cafe as a short order cook from 1973-1986. She started an in-home daycare service in 1988, which she ran until retiring in 2011. After Eldon’s passing in 2013, Alvina moved to Dickinson. Alvina enjoyed embroidering, baking her famous butterhorns, chocolate chip and butterscotch chip cookies, and making her fabulous icicle pickles. She was a member of the Women of Epiphany at Epiphany Catholic Church in Watford City, where she was a member until joining St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Dickinson. Alvina is survived by her children, Wayne (Mair Owen) Soehren, of Wayzata, MN, Michael (Gaye) Soehren, of Dickinson, and Deirdre (Steven) Schwartz, of Conrad, MT; her grandchildren, Marissa Soehren, Sean (Tara) Soehren, Shane Soehren, Christina (Mark) Forbes, and Bryn Soehren; great-grandchildren, Kinsley, Patrick, Theodore, Abigail, and Jack; siblings, Evelyn (James “Buddy”) Halvorson, of Bismarck, Larry Magelky, of Dickinson, Connie Wolf, of Maple Valley, WA; and brother-in-law, Lee (Mary) Soehren, of Pelican Rapids, MN. She was preceded in death by her parents, Steven and Emma Magelky; husband, Eldon Soehren; and sister, Danelda Steier.
Red ID: FND_I_78498 Image ID: 596048 Image Notes: FND001 271007

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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