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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271319
Title: Alice L. Gudmundson
Date: 6/18/1929-9/21/2024
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Inscription/Marks: 6/18/1929
Summary: Alice Gudmundson, 95, of Carrington, ND, passed away September 21, 2024, at Sanford Hospital in Bismarck, ND. A funeral service was held at Trinity Lutheran Church, Carrington. Burial was at the Cavalier Cemetery, Cavalier, ND. Alice Laverne Werner was born June 18, 1929, to Rudolph and Emily Werner in Cavalier. She grew up on a farm near Cavalier and graduated from Cavalier High School in 1947. On December 1, 1948, she married Ronald Thurston in Brainerd, MN. They lived in Cavalier, where Alice was active in the American Legion Auxiliary and a member of the Rebekah Lodge. She was a Cub Scout leader and coached a Pee Wee baseball team. Ronald passed away on November 17, 1954. On April 3, 1958, Alice married Pete Gudmundson in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They lived in Cavalier before moving to Carrington in 1972, where they owned the Coast to Coast hardware store. She was president of District 14 Republican Women of Foster County and belonged to Eastern Star. Pete passed away on December 19, 1977. She continued living in Carrington, working as a CNA at Golden Acres Manor for 20 years. Alice was an active member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Alice loved watching sports of all kinds, especially, the Carrington Cardinals and the NDSU Bison. She enjoyed traveling and had many adventures. Some highlights of her travels were trips to Costa Rica with her friend, Jay Nitschke, and Washington, D.C. with her son, Peter. Alice also enjoyed making scrapbooks for her family. She included important dates, documents, photographs, and special occasions, providing a historical guide for her family. Alice made a signature book for each of her sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Alice cherished time with her family, taking every opportunity to be together. She is remembered by her sons, Peter Gudmundson, Carrington, and John (Bobbi) Gudmundson, O’Fallon, MO; daughters-in-law, Lori Thurston (Richard), Grand Forks, ND, and Janice Schuerman (Robert), Columbia, MO; grandchildren, Emily (John) Tweten, Molly Marek (Aaron Nord), Maddie Gudmundson, and Jack (Michelle) Gudmundson; great-grandchildren, Laila Alice, Makson, Maisyn, Kashden, Stetsen, Rogan, Stevie; siblings, Frances Winzer, Fargo, ND, Verna Schluchter, Minot, ND, Donald Werner, Beardstown, IL; and her very dear friend, Jay Nitschke, of Jamestown, ND. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Floyd; husbands, Ronald and Pete; sons, Richard and Robert; grandchildren, Cody and Casey (Richard and Lori) Thurston; brothers and sisters-in-law, Henry Winzer, Merle Schluchter, Nina Werner, and Jonina Gudmundson.
Red ID: FND_I_78809 Image ID: 515225 Image Notes: FND001 271319

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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