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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271091
Title: Jane E. Urban
Date: 10/29/1958-11/13/2023
Inscription/Marks: 10/29/1958
Summary: Jane Ellen Urban, 65, Watford City, ND, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on November 13, 2023, at her home. A memorial service for Jane will be held at a later date in Billings, MT. When Jane was a child she would pick fruit with her family seasonally, which then turned into her and her brother, Danny, starting a little yard service. This little endeavor not only led to a lifetime career for Jane, but she was very passionate about it. As Jane got older, the family moved to Montana where she graduated and met her first husband, Carl Black. They moved to Gillette, WY, and started a family along with multiple businesses, which they ran. After Jane and Carl divorced, she moved to Watford City, where she met her husband, Daniel Urban. Jane loved hosting family get-togethers and was famous for her potato salad. Jane loved taking her grandkids to, as she would call it, “sunny beach.” As winter came Jane decided she was going to retire at the lake and found a new love for baking and canning. Jane loved her flowers and taking side-by-side rides through the grasslands. As Jane’s life on earth has come to an end, she will always live on in all of our hearts forever.
Red ID: FND_I_78581 Image ID: 595635 Image Notes: FND001 271091

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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