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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271017
Title: Doris M. Soule
Date: 7/5/1938-7/6/2023
Inscription/Marks: 7/5/1938
Summary: Doris May Soule, 85, San Antonio, TX, passed away July 6, 2023, at a private care facility in San Antonio after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. A memorial service was held August 5, 2023, at Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck, ND. Burial was in the Glencoe Cemetery, Emmons County, ND. Doris M. Van Beek was born July 5, 1938, just after midnight on the family farm in a small Dutch community south of Bismarck, ND, the daughter of Gilbert and Lydia Van Beek. Her father called her a “late firecracker.” Doris took high school by correspondence and then attended a teacher’s college in Ellendale, ND. After graduation she taught at small rural schools and then a school in Jamestown, ND. It was during this time that she met her husband, Milton Soule, on a blind date. They married on June 16, 1961. After living in and around Bismarck for several years, the family moved to Cavalier, ND, where they continued to live until Milton’s death in 1982. Doris went back to school in Wahpeton, ND, to become a medical record technician and then settled in Morris, MN, where she lived until her retirement. She spent most of her retirement years near her sister in Wheatland, WY. She spent a lot of time studying American history, specifically the Civil War, and teaching community education classes about the war. She also enjoyed writing, traveling, and taking pictures of her grandchildren. Doris is survived by her sons, Hugh (Charmaine) Soule and Les (Janis) Soule; her daughter, Noelle (Mike) Melito; and nine grandchildren, Rachel, Jarod, Nathan, Joel, Kyle, Zach, and Tyler Melito, and Rebekah and Elizabeth Soule. She was predeceased by her parents; her husband, Milton; and her sister, Joanne.
Red ID: FND_I_78508 Image ID: 596205 Image Notes: FND001 271017

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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