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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271526
Title: Ariel R. Cavanaugh
Date: 5/13/1992-2/21/2025
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 5/13/1992
Summary: Ariel Raye Cavanaugh, 32, of St. Michael, ND, began her journey on February 21, 2025 at Altru in Grand Forks, ND. A funeral service was held March 4, 2025, at St Michael Tek Center, St Michael, ND. Burial was at the St Michael Cemetery. Ariel, the daughter of Vanessa Cavanaugh and Gerard Curley, was born on May 13, 1992, in Devils Lake, ND. She attended school at Four Winds and Devils Lake Middle School, later attended Job Corps in Minot, and then volunteered at Senior Services, where she helped deliver meals to the elderly. She met Lorman Owlboy Sr. and had their daughter, Loren Owlboy on October 12, 2012. They made a home on Heart Road, where they had chickens, a llama, and horses. She then moved to Grand Forks, where she lived for two years, and then moved back to Devils Lake with her birds. She worked at Cankdeska Community College and then Super 8. Ariel loved to be around friends and family. She liked driving around listening to music, sitting down by the lake, cooking out and bringing her nieces and nephews swimming. Ariel had a very joyful spirit. She was ambitious and liked to joke and laugh around. We ask that you remember her not for the way her life ended but for the way it was lived. Ariel is survived by her mother, Vanessa Cavanaugh; stepdad, Mark Littleghost; her only child, Loren Owlboy; her sisters, Jerrica (Stephen) Curley, Marissa Littleghost, Trinity Littleghost, Cristina and Stevy Payne and Grace and Jerri Curley; brothers, Marcus (Miranda) Curley, Ashton Littleghost, Mason Payne, Mark Littleghost Jr., Joey Thumb and Ridge Payne; grandmothers, Rose, Lynda and Amelia Curley, Cathy Twohearts, Maxine Buckles, Patty Twohearts, Becky Twohearts and Myra Quinn; grandpas, Butch, Clark, and Jeff Cavanaugh; uncles, Robby Romie and Kyle Cavanaugh, Joey Blackboy and John Jetty; aunties, Mary Thompson, Connie Poorbear, Jodie and Joy Blackboy, Lydia and Bonnie Cavanaugh and Shirlee Feather; nieces, Miley and Cassidy Curley, Madison Goodbird, Kaelynn Patricia, Cleo Jackson and Nariyah Whiteman; nephews, Jace Curley, Marcus Curley Jr., Mason Goodbird, Kaiden Jackson and Lathan Azure and special friend, Carlos Wadsworth. She was preceded in death by Percy Cavanaugh, George Cavanaugh, Cynthia Poorbear, Martez Curley, Felicia Owlboy, Samatha Fox, Doris Denne and Melinda Whiteman.
Red ID: FND_I_79022 Image ID: 524437 Image Notes: FND001-271526

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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