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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271636
Title: Marilyn R. Schaubert
Date: 10/26/1928-6/1/2025
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 10/26/1928
Summary: Marilyn R. Schaack Schaubert, 96, passed awayJune 1, 2025, in Henderson, NV. A Mass of Christian burial was held June 13, 2025, at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church, Sykeston, ND. Burial was at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Cemetery, Sykeston. Daughter of Mathias and Theresa (Laber) Schaack, Marilyn was born October 26, 1928, in Sykeston, where she grew up on the family farm just outside of town. After graduating from Sykeston High School, Marilyn moved to Fargo, ND, and entered an associate of arts degree program to become a registered nurse. Marilyn graduated from nursing training and was awarded a nursing license (RN), then took a position at a hospital in Denver, CO. A few years later, Marilyn met and married Vernon Schaubert. They moved to California where they raised their family. Marilyn was a stay-at-home mom to four children. She is remembered fondly as an expert seamstress/birthday cake decorator/cub scout leader/class mom … and all-around problem solver. It wasn’t until her last child was in high school that she went back to work as an RN at the neighborhood hospital. In 2001, she and Vernon retired and made the move to Henderson, NV. Marilyn enjoyed crafts, including needlepoint, painting, crocheting and knitting, and decorating the coolest cakes for her kids' and grandkids' birthdays. She sewed prolifically, creating everything from clothes for Barbies through special Halloween costumes to custom curtains and quilts. For most of her adult life, Marilyn participated in league bowling and enjoyed playing cards. Mostly, she liked being around friends. Nothing beat several cups of coffee shared around the kitchen table where major and minor topics were discussed in detail. Among her causes was saving the trees at Orcutt Park (she won) and second-guessing the Catholic Church’s decision to say the Mass in English (she lost). In her youth, she worked out regularly with Jack LaLanne on TV. Later, the desire to exercise lapsed, replaced by a decades-long loyalty to Dr. Phil and Oprah. The Los Angeles Lakers were her team. She is survived by her brother, Jerry Schaack, of Bismarck, ND; sons, Mark (Michelle) Schaubert, of Battle Ground, WA, and Neil Schaubert, of Los Angeles, CA; and daughter, Mary Schaubert, of Abilene, TX; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Marilyn was preceded in death by her son, Scott; her parents; her sisters, Norma Zink and Valeria Herman; and brothers, Jack Schaack and Bob Schaack.
Red ID: FND_I_79132 Image ID: 528894 Image Notes: FND001 271636

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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