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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271296
Title: Esther Hoesel
Date: 2/6/1937-4/26/2025
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Inscription/Marks: 2/6/1937
Summary: Esther Hoesel, 88, of New Salem, ND, passed away April 26, 2025, at Sanford Health in Bismarck. Funeral services were held April 30, 2025, at Peace Church in New Salem with Pastor Mark Hassler officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Esther Wolf was born on February 6, 1937, in New Salem, the daughter of Fred and Antonia (Hoger) Wolf of Sweet Briar, ND. As a young girl, she attended grade school for six years in Sweet Briar, fourth grade in New Salem and eighth grade in Judson. At the age of 18, Esther became the bride of Edgar Hoesel in Peace Church on August 23, 1955. Their marriage was blessed with five children, Cherie, Valerie, Keith, Michael and David. For the first few years of their marriage, Esther worked for the New Salem Co-op. In 1959, she became a rural farmwife, milking cows for their dairy business from 1959 until 2005. Dedicated commitment and an everyday daily chore, kept their family proudly united and working together. Following their retirement from the dairy business, Esther and Edgar became employees of the Morton County Fair Building and enjoyed working alongside each other for an additional 10 years. Esther and Edgar were fully retired in 2015. Esther enjoyed crocheting, raising flowers, reading, puzzles, word search and especially babysitting her great-grandchildren. She was a member of Peace Church and the Women’s Guild, New Salem Pioneer Club and New Salem Women’s Life. She will be missed dearly and remembered for her devotion to her family, and God. Esther is survived by her husband of 69 years, Edgar, of New Salem; sons, Keith (Roberta) Hoesel, of New Salem, Michael (Joann) Hoesel, of Mandan, ND, David (Susan) Hoesel, of Dickinson; son-in-law, Stephen Nicolai, of Milnor; 17 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren; sisters-in-law, Rosy Wolf, of Mandan, Betty Hoesel, of New Salem, and Darlene Lennie, of New Salem. She was preceded in death by her parents, Fred and Antonia Wolf; daughter, Cherie Nicolai; and daughter and son-in-law, Valerie and Bruce Blend; sisters, Helen (Roy) Sicble, Alice (Virgil) Hohbein, Marian (Raymond) Hohbein, Edna (Donald) Hohbein; brothers, Herbert and Herman Wolf; great-grandchildren, Gabriel Crist, Kyle Whetsel.
Red ID: FND_I_79081 Image ID: 525756 Image Notes: FND001 271296

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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