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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271117
Title: Renae Walker
Date: 5/12/1959-11/12/2023
Inscription/Marks: 5/12/1959
Summary: Renae Hoffmann Walker wanted to make a difference in her community and in the lives she touched. She hopes she has done that. Walker died November 12, 2023. Her funeral was held November 17, 2023, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Bismarck. Burial was at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan, ND. Renae Hoffmann was born to Pete and Judy Hoffmann on May 12, 1959, along with her sisters Teri (Halverson) and Dawn (Brady). She was born and raised in Bismarck and attended both public and private schools here. She graduated from St. Mary’s Central High School in 1977 and Mary College in 1980. She received her master’s degree in management from the University of Mary in 2002. Renae’s first professional job was at KFYR-TV, where she was a news reporter from 1979-1988. She married her friend and co-worker, television news photographer, Dwayne Walker, on October 19, 1985. In February of 1988, Renae Hoffmann Walker became the Director of Communications and Research for the North Dakota Department of Agriculture. In November of that same year, she landed a job as Community Relations Director for Bismarck Public Schools, a position she held for 32 years. In retirement, Walker worked part time for the North Dakota Petroleum Council as Events Coordinator for a year, after which she worked part time at United Way. Walker served her community in many ways through her involvement with the local Advertising Federation, Bismarck-Mandan Development Association, Business and Professional Women, Chamber of Commerce, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, International Association of Business Communicators, Leadership Bismarck-Mandan, Toastmasters, United Way, Dakota Media Access, BPS Foundation, Ronald McDonald House, and Bridging the Dental Gap. She received nine television news awards, the prestigious Gold Medallion from the National School Public Relations Association, and the titles of BPW Young Careerist of the Year (1994-95) and Outstanding Alumnus of the Bismarck-Mandan Leadership Alumni Association (2014) and was an accomplished public speaker and writer for local, state and national organizations and publications. But Walker felt her most fulfilling role was as a mom to her daughter, Ariana (Levi) Kinnischtzke, Bismarck, and her two stepchildren, Ryan (Kara) Walker, Minnesota, and Heidi Herrington, Bismarck, as well as being a grandmother to Damon and Cameron Kinnischtzke, Halaina Walker, and Jimmy and Ben Herrington. She will miss them all very much. She will also miss family gatherings with them, her sisters, nieces, nephew and their children. She was preceded in death by her father, mother, and grandparents.
Red ID: FND_I_78606 Image ID: 575986 Image Notes: FND001 271117

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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