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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271225
Title: Delores Johnson
Date: 5/7/1932-8/15/2024
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Inscription/Marks: 5/7/1932
Summary: Delores Johnson, 92, Bismarck, ND, passed away August 15, 2024, at home. Mass of Christian burial was held August 23, 2024, at the Catholic Church of Ascension, Bismarck. Burial was at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan, ND. Delores was born on May 7, 1932, in Fargo, ND, to Lawrence and Margaret (Gorman) Ukestad. She was raised and attended schools in Fargo. Delores was in the first class to graduate from Shanley High School in 1951. On September 19, 1953, she married her childhood sweetheart, Richard Johnson, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Fargo. They were blessed with three children. Throughout their marriage they lived in Fargo, Williston, Grand Forks, Valley City, Rugby, Garrison, and Mandan. Delores was a full-time homemaker until their children entered school and then she was employed at various businesses as a secretary. Delores enjoyed watching sports (especially football), playing bingo, bowling, golfing where she made a hole in one, watching birds, decorating, entertaining, attending grandchildren’s events, and visiting family and friends. She especially loved spending time with all of her great-grandchildren. Dick and Delores were true lifelong partners. Where you saw one, you saw the other and many times that was in the stands watching their grandchildren in sporting events. Delores will be remembered most by the love she gave to her family and the lifelong devotion to her Catholic faith. Delores is survived by her daughters, Tammy (Gene) Heinrich, and Kari; three grandchildren, Richie (Sarah), Michael (Katie), and Christopher (Tricia); seven great-grandchildren, Luke, Jake, Andrew, Kristen, Grant, Bennett, and Athena; three sisters, Evelyn Soukup, Darlene Arendt, Linda Bortke, and a brother, Larry Ukestad; many nieces and nephews; and her beloved dog, Daisy. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard; her son, Steve; her parents, Lawrence and Margaret Ukestad; her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Al and Dorothy Johnson; brothers-in-law, Al Soukup, Jerry Arendt, Al Bortke; a sister-in-law, Terry Ukestad; nephews, Al Soukup and Tim Arendt; and a great-niece, Amy Bortke.
Red ID: FND_I_78717 Image ID: 511650 Image Notes: FND001 271225

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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