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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271393
Title: Vivian Rimmereid
Date: 12/26/1930-12/17/2024
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 12/26/1930
Summary: Vivian Rimmereid, 93, went home to be with the Lord on December 17, 2024, at the Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd, New Rockford, ND. A funeral service was held December 23, 2024, at First Lutheran Church, New Rockford. Her burial was at the Prairie Home Cemetery, New Rockford. Vivian was born December 26, 1930, in rural Cathay, ND, the daughter of John and Thekla Gunhilda (Bryne) Gedrose. She was baptized at Stavanger Lutheran Church, Cathay, and confirmed at the First Lutheran Church of New Rockford. She attended school in Fairville Township, Wells County, until 1941. She then moved with her family near Brantford, ND, and attended Columbia Consolidated High School, and in 1949 she graduated from New Rockford High School. Vivian worked with abstracts for Surety Title Company until she married Daniel Rimmereid on September 24,1950. She loved working alongside Daniel on their family farm. Vivian was active in the Tiffany Ladies Aid and Homemaker Clubs, Y Janes Birthday Club, Red Hats, and an active member of the First Lutheran Church. In 1980 they moved from the farm to a new home in New Rockford. She loved baking, caring for her vegetable and flower gardens, serving her family, playing cards and games, quilting, family camping trips, and traveling throughout America, Canada, and Europe. Vivian had a love for family and took immense pride in attending her seven grandchildren’s events of all kinds. Her loving husband of 66 years, Daniel, passed away in May of 2017. Vivian is survived by two sons, Dennis (Luann) Rimmereid, New Rockford, and Jerrold Rimmereid, Kansas City, MO; two daughters, Jeanette (Steve) Ackerman, Wahpeton, ND, and Elaine (Steve) Gehrtz, Fargo, ND; seven grandchildren, Todd Rimmereid, Nikky Rimmereid, Dan (Laura) Ackerman, Casey (Winter) Ackerman, Jessica (Ben) Sencindiver, Matthew (Kjerstin) Gehrtz and Michael (Bryanna) Gehrtz; and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Daniel; her parents; her sisters, Olga (Clarence) Sielig, Tillie (Glenn) Collier, Julia (LeRoy) Gross, Gerda (Donald) Backman and Erna Gedrose; and brothers, Emil (Bernadine) Gedrose and John (Barbara) Gedrose.
Red ID: FND_I_78884 Image ID: 518556 Image Notes: FND001 271393

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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