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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271503
Title: June A. Slagle
Date: 6/3/1926-4/28/2016
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Inscription/Marks: 6/3/1926
Summary: June Ann Slagle, age 89 of Williston and formerly of Alexander, North Dakota passed from this life Saturday, April 23rd at Bethel Lutheran Home in Williston. Her Funeral mass was April 30th, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Williston. Fr. Russell Kovash with celebrating the mass. June was born June 3rd, 1926 in Williston to Mary (McEnany) and Frances Hougen. June was the youngest of four children. June married Gordon Slagle July 3rd, 1944 in Sidney, Montana. June and Gordon raised their children on a farm northeast of Alexander. Gordon passed away October 28, 1958 at the age of 35 after 14 years of marriage. June and her family remained on the farm until moving to Alexander. While raising her young family she traveled to Williston daily to work at Mercy Hospital. After Gordon’s death June worked as a nurse’s aide at Mercy Hospital for many years until 1969 when she began her studies for her LPN degree-License at UND Williston graduating in 1971 and continued working at Mercy Medical Center until she retired from nursing in 1989. June saw her ten children graduate from Alexander High School and enjoyed visiting them wherever they made their homes in different parts of the country. June enjoyed swimming, dancing, roller-skating, and traveling. Her house was full of friends and family on the weekends where afternoons ere spent playing games. Her home was a place where everyone would enjoy gathering for June's special cooking including her tender roast, apple pie and her specialty of “three corners”. She raised her children with a good religious foundation and almost every moment aside from working was spent taking groups of kids swimming at the river, hiking, tobogganing and ice skating. June greatly enjoyed visiting her many children in their various homes helping them on their farms, in their homes or coming to their activities and site seeing. When she was ready to return home, she didn’t like goodbyes, so many times she was gone before anyone woke up. June is survived by 9 of her 10 children including Mary (Roswell) Henke of Bismarck, Steve (Connie) Slagle of Lolo, Montana, Holly (Lou) Sowitch of Loveland, Colorado, Gayle (Joyce) Slagle of Great Falls, Montana, Fonda (Ray) Powell of Alexander, Ann Slagle of Flagstaff, Arizona, Betty Slagle (Kent Heitman) of Kalispell, Montana, Vicky Wegley of Williston, and Helen (Duane) Verhasselt of Tonasket, Washington, and special daughter Lea (Mike) Njos of Bellingham, Washington. June is also survived by her 26 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren and the loving staff at Bethel Lutheran Home. June was preceded in death by her husband Gordon, daughter Linda Hoffmann, her parents, her brother Frances, and sisters Mary Coughlin and Helen Leonard, and five Angel grand- and great-grand babies.
Red ID: FND_I_78998 Image ID: 522789 Image Notes: FND001 271503

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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