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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271483
Title: Leola Rattin
Date: 7/16/1927-2/3/2025
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 7/16/1927
Summary: Leola Rattin, 97, of Dickinson, ND, and originally from Red Lodge, MT, passed away February 3, 2025, at Saint Benedict’s Nursing Home in Dickinson. Leola, a Red Lodge, MT, graduate, married Hugo on April 2, 1945, and together they raised four children and did farming just outside Red Lodge. They were partners in life and in their farm business. Leola was also a 4-H leader and secretary of their bowling league and the West Fork Irrigation Company. In 2019 she moved to Billings, MT, and then to Dickinson in 2022. Leola has told her children often, “I sure had a great life.” She will be missed. She is survived by children, Connie Evans, of Olympia, WA; Kathi (Howard) Dew, of Boulder City, NV; and Fred (Renee) Rattin, of Dickinson; 8 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. Husband Hugo passed away in 2014 and son David in 2019. Her parents, Emmett and Hilja Luoma, along with siblings Leonard, Lina, and Bill, are deceased.
Red ID: FND_I_78978 Image ID: 522327 Image Notes: FND001 271483

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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