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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271073
Title: Ronald "Ron" H. Thompson
Date: 1/11/1942-12/12/2023
Inscription/Marks: 1/11/1942
Summary: Ronald H. Thompson died December 12, 2023, at his home in Rawson, ND. A service was held at Wilmington Lutheran Church in Arnegard, ND, on December 30, 2023. Ron was born in Cutbank, MT, on January 11, 1942, and spent his formative years raised on the family farm at Arnegard. He played basketball, baseball and football for the Arnegard Spuds high school teams and also played cornet in the band. After high school, he attended North Dakota State University in Fargo and was a member of the engineering fraternity. He came home for one year in the middle of his college years to tend to the farm and the family business, Bud’s Pump Service and Water Well Drilling, after his Dad suffered a heart attack. Shortly after Ron graduated from NDSU, he joined the Forest Service. Ron worked 27 years as an engineer for the Forest Service in Idaho, Washington and Oregon, finally retiring in 1993, and moved back to North Dakota, where his heart always stayed. His hobbies included fishing, bowling and cribbage, as well as working on whatever unique project his engineering mind had him doing, whether it was woodworking, furniture building, fixing up old cars or coming up with solutions and new tools for the pump repair business. He is survived by his three siblings, Sharon Whited, Roger Thompson and Janet Erhardt; his five children, Cory Thompson, of Auburn, WA, Angie Karnes, of Rainier, WA, Jared Green of Bend, OR, Cherie Davis of Lakeview, OR, and Douglas Green of Rawson, ND, who stayed by his side for the final years of his life; 12 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. A special thanks to Lyn Strom, who cared for Ron and kept him safe until the end. Ron was preceded in death by his parents, Lloyd “Bud” Thompson and Janet “Jenny” (Lee) Thompson; two wives, Ava (Green) Thompson and Arlene (Hubbert) Thompson; and one great-grandchild, Cameron Hartrick.
Red ID: FND_I_78563 Image ID: 595423 Image Notes: FND001 271073

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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