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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271231
Title: Rafael Ocejo
Date: 12/1/1946-7/13/2024
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 12/1/1946
Summary: Rafa was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, the fourth of six children, and from an early age he knew he wanted to be a physician. He started his medical studies in Mexico City, and he finished them in Canada, where he practiced for two decades. He moved to Bismarck in the late 1990s and worked here for 26 years, supporting the community as a neonatologist and a pediatrician. Rafa's compassion and care for the children that he treated was unparalleled. He dedicated the majority of the hours in a day to his practice, and he loved every minute of it. Caring for the children and supporting their parents was not a job for Rafa, it was a lifestyle. He lived his life with passion and joy, in and out of the hospital, and all of his family and friends, and the many beloved nurses that he mentored, can attest to this. When he wasn’t working, you could be sure to find him on the beach in Ixtapa.
Red ID: FND_I_78722 Image ID: 511659 Image Notes: FND001 271231

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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