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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271661
Title: Joan M. Walton
Date: 8/30/1926-11/2/2018
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Inscription/Marks: 8/30/1926
Summary: Joan Marie Walton (Patterson, Boulger), 92, Dickinson, ND, died peacefully in Minot, ND, on October 18, 2018. A funeral Mass was held November 2, 2018, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Dickinson, with Father Bill Ruelle celebrating. took place in St. Patrick’s Cemetery. Joan Boulger was born on August 30, 1926 to Richard and Coila (Litch) Boulger in Dickinson, North Dakota. Joan attended college at Trinity College, Washington, D.C., 1944-1945 where she was in attendance at FDR’s funeral procession in 1945. She graduated St. Catherine’s University in St. Paul with a BA in history and an economics minor in 1949. She married Dr. Warren Lytle Patterson in 1949 and lived in Chicago, and later in Conrad, Montana until Dr. Patterson’s death in 1953. After Dr. Patterson’s death, Joan returned to Dickinson and received a teaching degree from Dickinson State College in 1955 when she began working for the Dickinson Public Schools. She married Robert Walton in 1989. Robert died in 2014. Joan was a teacher in Dickinson from 1955 to 1988. She started at Berg and Jefferson Elementary Schools as a fifth-grade teacher, then as a math teacher at Hagen Junior High, where she taught for 22 years. It was difficult for Joan to go anywhere in Dickinson without running into her previous students, many of whom praised her as their favorite teacher. Joan was very active both professionally and civically. She served as president of the Dickinson Educators Association and was on the North Dakota Board of Mathematics Teachers. She also served on the North Dakota Board of Addiction Counselors. She was on the Trinity School Board and also served as president of the Ladies Golf Association in Dickinson. Joan was an active member of St. Patrick’s Church where she attended mass regularly. Reading was her passion, finishing several books per week. She loved collecting Santa Clauses, accumulating hundreds. She belonged to a mystery book club, a supper club, and various coffee groups later in life. Joan loved to travel and in addition to visiting family and friends throughout the U.S. she also enjoyed traveling abroad to keep in touch with family in Poland, Japan, and Singapore. Joan is the last surviving member of her five brothers and sisters and as such has been for many years the matriarch of a large extended family. She kept in touch with everyone and loved nothing better than spending time with her family. All who knew Joan were touched by her humor, her kindness, and her strength. She will be greatly missed. She is survived by her children Michael Patterson (Penny) of Tyler, Texas, Thomas Patterson of Kansas City, Missouri, Kathleen Scheeler, (John) of Minot, North Dakota, and daughter-in-law Susan Patterson (Daniel) of Denver, Colorado. She was preceded in death by husband Warren Patterson, husband Robert Walton, and son Daniel Patterson. She is also survived by ten grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.
Red ID: FND_I_79157 Image ID: 528960 Image Notes: FND001 271661

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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