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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271037
Title: Avis Stewart
Date: 1/6/1938-8/3/2023
Inscription/Marks: 1/6/1938
Summary: Avis Stewart, 85, Souris, ND, died August 3, 2023, in a Fargo, ND, hospital after a brief illness. Her funeral was held August 10, 2023, at the First Lutheran Church in Bottineau, ND. Burial was at the Mountain View Cemetery near Souris. Avis Gimbel was born in Bottineau on January 6, 1938, to William and Alma (Ihla) Gimbel, their first daughter and fourth child. She grew up on a farm just outside of Souris with three older brothers and had many cousins and friends nearby. After graduating from Souris High School in 1956, she earned her teaching degree and taught school for nine years. She met William Stewart, her future husband during her first four years while teaching in Sherwood, ND. After a lengthy courtship they were married June 8, 1968, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Souris. Eighteen months later on December 12, 1969, their daughter Lori was born and Todd was born March 7, 1978. This completed her family and she spent the next 25 years raising her kids. She celebrated her 53rd wedding anniversary in 2021 and was affectionately known by Bill as “Huggabear.” Avis enjoyed spending summers planting lots of flowers and gardening. She always made sure to plant a huge one! Summers were spent tending to the cucumbers, carrots, radishes, onions, potatoes, corn and melons. Her family enjoyed eating fresh veggies from the garden and the pickles and frozen vegetables year-round that she made every year. She also canned peaches, pears, cherries and strawberry rhubarb sauce. Avis loved to put puzzles together, many times enlisting the help of her friends. The walls of her garage displayed their hard work. She also belonged to the Bottineau Senior Center where she enjoyed playing whist and an occasional game of dominoes. Avis is survived by her daughter, Lori, of Portland, OR; and son, Todd (Melissa), of West Fargo, ND; two beloved grandkids, Mason (17) who starts his senior year this fall, and Ella (14) who will be a freshman; as well as three nephews and three nieces. Avis was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; and brothers, Farlynn, Wayne and Layton Gimbel; and one niece.
Red ID: FND_I_78528 Image ID: 595646 Image Notes: FND001 271037

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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