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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271614
Title: Cleo J. A. Furuseth
Date: 7/8/1930-12/3/2017
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Inscription/Marks: 7/8/1930
Summary: Cleo Furuseth of Williston passed away peacefully, her family by her side, on Sunday morning, December 3rd, at Trinity Hospital in Minot. Cleo was 87. A memorial service celebrating Cleo’s life was held on Wednesday morning, December 6, 2017 at 11:00 AM in the Chapel at First Lutheran Church in Williston, ND.  Rev. Janet Hernes Mathistad officiated.  In accordance with Cleo’s wishes, cremation has taken place. Burial will took place in the spring. Cleo June Angeline Haroldson Furuseth was born in Coteau, ND on July 8, 1930 to Harry and Myrtle (Lindblad) Haroldson. She attended school in Coteau, spending her senior year at Addamson High School in Dallas, TX. After graduating with a degree in French and Spanish from Jamestown College, she began teaching in LaMoure, ND. There she met Norman Furuseth, a fellow teacher, and they fell in love- much to the delight of their students. They were married in 1954 and after another year in LaMoure, they moved to Roseau, MN for a year. In 1956, they moved to Williston, where they lived for the next ten years. During this time their family grew to six. In 1966, they moved to Albany, Oregon, and in 1969 to Stuttgart, Germany, where Cleo taught kindergarten and truly enjoyed traveling in Europe for five years. Always a lover of art and culture, she took full advantage of those years overseas. In 1974, the family returned to Williston. She was soon appointed Williams County Superintendent of Schools, a position she held until her retirement in 1986. Cleo was a wonderful wife and mother, who loved to laugh at a good joke, plant and nurture unique and beautiful gardens, give fanciful tea parties for her beloved granddaughters, play duets with her daughters and accompany church choirs, family and friends on the piano. She adored traveling and exploring other cultures, speaking French or Spanish when she got the chance. She took great pleasure in decorating her house and loved to change things around with the seasons, causing her family to occasionally bump into furniture in the dark. There was a time when Norm woke up at 3am to find her missing. He looked and looked for her and finally found her in the garage mixing paint. She’d had an idea for the perfect color and she didn’t want to forget it by morning! Cleo is preceded in death by her husband, Norman, her great-granddaughter, Brinley Pennington, her parents, sister and brother. She is survived by her son, Eric Furuseth of Minot, daughter Beret Hagen and son-in-law Doug Hagen of San Diego, son Pete Furuseth and daughter-in-law Laurie Furuseth of Williston, and daughter Jenny Furuseth and son-in-law Mike Hubnik of Minneapolis, as well as her four granddaughters Liv Hagen Gorman, Greta Furuseth Pennington, Hanna Hagen, and Maren Furuseth, great-granddaughters Sawyer Pennington, Freya Gorman, and Rowyn Pennington, nieces and nephews, and dear friends.
Red ID: FND_I_79111 Image ID: 526153 Image Notes: FND001 271614

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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