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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271258
Title: Erma Neuberger
Date: 6/19/1949-9/17/2024
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Inscription/Marks: 6/19/1949
Summary: Erma Neuberger, 98, Bismarck, ND, died September 17, 2024, at Sunset Drive Good Samaritan Society, Mandan, ND. A funeral service wwas held September 23, 2024, at Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck, with interment at Sunset Memorial Gardens, Bismarck. Erma was born in Beulah, ND, to John and Kathrine Krausz. She married Gordon Neuberger on June 19, 1949, in Beulah and moved to Dubuque, IA, where Gordon was attending Wartburg Theological Seminary. She accompanied Gordon while he served a two-year internship at the Rush Lake, Saskatchewan, parish in western Canada which was known as the "little kingdom" consisting of four congregations and three preaching stations. In 1953 Gordon (Pastor GG) graduated from Wartburg Theological Seminary and, along with Erma, accepted a call to Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, which consisted of three congregations. In 1958 they accepted a call to Immanuel Lutheran Church, New Leipzig, ND. In 1965 they accepted a call to St. Luke Lutheran in Wishek, ND. In 1979 they accepted a call to serve Zion Lutheran Church in Mohall, ND, and in September of 1988 accepted a call to St. Paul Lutheran Church in Center, ND. Pastor GG retired in 1994 and they moved to Bismarck, where they were active Good Shepherd Lutheran Church members. Growing up, Erma worked alongside her brothers and sister on their parents' farm where in addition to routine farm chores she mastered operating her father’s caterpillar tractor used to work the family's Knife River bottoms acreage south of Beulah and self-taught, she learned how to play the accordion and piano. She had a “green thumb” when it came to caring for her yard, garden and flowers. House painting and wallpaper came naturally to her and mother nature was never able to drop enough snow to cover her sidewalks and driveways as she manicured them to perfection. She always made sure that family cars were impeccably clean, and you couldn’t miss her license plate “ERM”. Famous for her “peach” kuchens, visitors could always count on enjoying a slice or two when dropping by and leaving with a frozen kuchen for the road to savor at home. Her sons, grandchildren, nieces and nephews would ask her to make fleischkuekle, strudels and dumplings, and/or pumpkin pie when they visited, and the ladies' coffee club would always compliment her angel food cake. Erma is survived by her two sons, Wayne Neuberger, Atlanta, GA, and James Neuberger, Bismarck; granddaughter, Brooke Auston-Williams (Lance), Denver, CO; grandson, Garrett Neuberger, Bismarck; and great-grandchildren, Tatym Williams and Jude Williams, Denver. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Gordon (Pastor GG); sister, Amelia Ferguson; brothers, Leonard Krausz and Oscar Krausz.
Red ID: FND_I_78749 Image ID: 514286 Image Notes: FND001 271258

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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