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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271530
Title: Gertrude E. Kilzer
Date: 5/18/1905-1/14/1992
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Inscription/Marks: 5/18/1905
Summary: Gertrude E. Kilzer, 86, Bismarck, formerly of Richardton, died Jan. 14, 1992, in a Bismarck hospital. Services were held at 2 p.m. MST Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Richardton, with Rev. Brian Wrangler officiating. The reader was John Holbrook and gift bearers were her granddaughters. Special music was provided by Sylvia Feller, organist, and St. Mary's Church choir. Burial followed in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Richardton. Pallbearers were Pat Gullickson, Terry Gullickson, Scott Gullickson, Ron Knoll, Sean Knoll, Bob Kilzer, Jim Kilzer, and Jon Kilzer. Visitation was 8 a.m.- 9 a.m. at Mischel-Olson Chapel, Dickinson, where a Catholic Daughters rosary was said at 7:30. Gertrude Kilma, a daughter of Louis and Ella Mae (Gavin) Kilma, was born May 18, 1905, at Cresco, Iowa. On June 2, 1922, she graduated from Owatonna High School at Owatonna, Minn. Following her graduation she worked at Golden Rule Department Store and a dental clinic in St. Paul, Minn. She entered nurses training and graduated as a registered nurse from St. Mary's Hospital, Minneapolis on Oct. 2, 1929. During the winter of 1929, she began nursing at the Richardton Hospital, Richardton. On July 17, 1930, she married Dr. George J. Kilzer. In 1965, after raising her family and the death of her husband in 1963, she returned to nursing at Richardton Community Hospital. She did volunteer work at St. Mary's High School library in Richardton from 1966 to August 1969, when she moved to St. Paul to be near her sisters and brother. In April 1978, she returned to North Dakota and took up residence at Marilac Manor, Bismarck. Due to ill health, she entered Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center in Bismarck May 9, 1989. She was a charter member of Richardton Catholic Daughters and St. Mary's Altar Society. She was also a member of Band Mothers in Richardton. She enjoyed playing bridge, quilting bees and crewel work. As a nurse she cared for her mother-in-law in Richardton, he sister, Char, and her brother-in-law, George, in St. Paul. She is survived by three sons and two daughters-inlaw, Dr. Terry G. Kilzer, Dickinson, Donald James "Jim" and Donna (Koerner) Kilzer, Littleton, Colo., and Dr. Tom and Ann (Geck) Kilzer, Bismarck; two daughters and one son-in-law, Gloria and Ole K. Gullickson, Williams, Ariz., and Kathleen Knoll, Grand Forks; 15 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; one brother, larry kilma, Forest Lake, Minn.; three sisters, Helann Leahy, Roseville, Minn., Eileen Holbert, Davis, Calif., and Mary Margaret Holbrook, Billings, Mont.; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, George; one brother; and one sister. The family prefers memorials to St. Mary's Catholic School, Richardton.
Red ID: FND_I_79026 Image ID: 524610 Image Notes: FND001 271530

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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