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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271424
Title: Carl Wold
Date: 1/24/1936-11/17/2024
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 1/24/1936
Summary: Carl Wold, 88, of Tioga, ND passed away November 17, 2024, at Tioga Medical Center. Funeral services were held November 21, 2024, at First Lutheran Church in Tioga. Pastor Mike Burns officiated. On a snowy, cold January night in 1936, Carl was born to Christ and Kari (Grindstuen) Wold, in Powers Lake, ND. As the story was told to him, he was brought home to the farm by horse and sleigh. When they got home, they unwrapped him and realized he was upside down, and he stayed that way the rest of his life, according to Grandpa. He went to school in McGregor and graduated from there in 1956. He attended one year of business college earning a degree in junior accounting. Carl served in the US Army for two years in Germany, where he met his future wife, Gisela. Carl and Gisela were married in the Scandia Lutheran Church in rural McGregor on June 8, 1962. The couple moved to Tioga where he worked in the oil field and raised their two children, Sheldon and Sheila, and a great-grandchild, Gauge. His favorite holiday was Christmas. Listening to Christmas music, old time country music and polka, especially when played by his best friend, Arlo. His favorite hobby was taking care of his yard. He enjoyed taking three trips to Germany with his family and visiting the Black Hills in South Dakota. Carl was a hardworking, honest, kind and humble man. Carl is survived by his wife of 63 years, Gisela; daughter, Sheila Wolla; grandchildren, Kylie Wold and her children, great-grandchildren, Gauge, Haze and Ryker, Kalab (Josie) Wolla and their children, great-grandchildren, Ryder, Cooper and Miller Wolla, Kendra (Gabe) Karg, and their children, great-grandchildren, Lawler, Lucy and Charlotte Karg; Hanne Feinhauer, Michael (Gudrun) Strohekker, Barbara Stahl; numerous nieces and nephews. Carl was preceded in death by his parents; son, Sheldon and his wife, Lori Wold; father and mother-in-law, Ludwig and Gertrude Berger; siblings, Nels (Marilyn) Wold, Olav Wold, Gunda (Bill) DeKraai, Sophia (Dale) Fuhrman; son-in-law, Jon Wolla.
Red ID: FND_I_78914 Image ID: 520437 Image Notes: FND001 271424

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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