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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271411
Title: Barbara A. Gedrose
Date: 9/28/1935-1/21/2025
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Inscription/Marks: 9/28/1935
Summary: Barbara Gedrose, 89, of Fort White, FL, and formerly of New Rockford, ND, went to be with the Lord on January 21, 2025, at the Lake Montgomery Rehabilitation & Nursing Facility in Lake City, FL. Her funeral was held January 21, 2025, at Evans Funeral Home, New Rockford. Burial was in Prairie Home Cemetery, New Rockford. Barbara was born September 28, 1935, in Binford, ND, the youngest daughter to Clifford Pittenger and Florence Billet. She married Richard Ekerberg on August 4, 1956, had two daughters, Becky and Shelley, and raised two stepsons, Richard Jr. and Robert Ekerberg. She did lose two children during childbirth, a girl (‘Baby’) and a boy they named Craig. She will see them now in Heaven. Later in 1978 she married the true love of her life, John Gedrose and lived in New Rockford, ND and later traveled some with a camper and settled down in Albuquerque, NM, for 16 years. This is where they both accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior! They moved back to New Rockford in 1999 to be closer to family. She loved to share her testimony with so many. It is a true blessing to know Barbara is in Heaven and we can rejoice in seeing her again one day. She moved to Fort White to be with her daughter, Shelley and son-in-law, Chris Brown after her loving husband, John Gedrose, passed in April of 2011. Chris built her a little cabin on their property, which she loved very much. Barbara always loved baking cookies, homemade yeast buns and more. She also loved to garden and can, as she and John had a nice vegetable garden and many flowers surrounding their home. She loved watching and feeding birds, needlepoint, playing cards and other games with family and friends. She also loved to send greeting cards for all occasions (becoming a lost art) and she loved receiving them too, especially the ones with photos. She also loved cats and had a couple special ones, both named “Kitty.” As she became more homebound in her bed, we bought her a beta fish which she named “Fishy.” Barbara is survived by her daughter, Rochelle “Shelley” (Chris) Brown; stepson, Robert (Debbie) Ekerberg; grandchildren, Richard J. Ekerberg, Christina Baker, Randal Ekerberg, Keith Carlton, Hiliary (Jerad) Houser, Richard Brown, Allison (Toby) Crisp and Jessica Brown, Nicole Ekerberg-Pryor; and 16 great-grandchildren. Barbara was preceded in death by her husband, John Gedrose; daughter, Becky Reiser; stepson, Richard (LaVon) Ekerberg Jr.; grandsons, David Brown and Robert A. Ekerberg; parents, Clifford Pittenger and Florence Billet; siblings, Marie Zimprich, Elaine Nauman, Lyla Sandvik and Larry Pittenger.
Red ID: FND_I_78901 Image ID: 520424 Image Notes: FND001 271411

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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