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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271709
Title: Alice J. Swenson
Date: 8/13/1929-6/4/2025
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Inscription/Marks: 8/13/1929
Summary: Alice Swenson, 95, of Tioga, ND, passed away June 4, 2025, at the Tioga Nursing Long Term Care in Tioga. Funeral services were held on June 10, 2025, at the First Lutheran Church in Tioga. Burial was in the United Cemetery. Alice Josephine was born August 13, 1929, on the family farmstead in Fredrick Township, Divide County to Otto and Mabel (Lerbakken) Vicha. She was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran faith at Corinth Zion Church. She attended Liberty Country School through the eighth grade and graduated from Alamo High School. She was united in marriage to the love of her life, Earl Swenson, on October 11, 1953, at McGregor Lutheran Church. They moved to the Swenson farm where they spent 13 years. She was Earl’s helper, driving truck, running the combine, plus many other tasks. From this marriage they were blessed with three daughters. In 1968 Earl decided to sell insurance so they moved to Tioga. After their girls graduated high school Alice decided to get a job; she worked at Earl's insurance office, Dakota Trends, and Tioga Drug. Alice was a member of First Lutheran Church, Rebeka Lodge, McGregor Twirlers, Tioga Senior’s, ELCU, and McGregor Bowling League. It brought her great joy to watch and cheer for her three girls, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren playing sports - hockey, football, basketball, soccer, dance, wrestling and baseball. They traveled many miles and missed very few games. She loved to travel, play bridge and other card games with her friends, gardening, canning, and baking with family. Together, Earl and Alice took many trips - cruises, skiing, camping, including to several countries. She was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, and friend and she will be dearly missed. She is survived by her daughters, Jaclyn (Daryl) Wallin, Joni (Robert) Syverson, and Joy (Randy) Lalim; her grandchildren, Desi Hodges, Danett (Jason) Rice, Jeremy (Tara) Wallin, Matthew (Candyce) Wallin, Ryan (Tara) Syverson, Lyndsay Wild, Erin (Mike) Einarson, Jace (Kayla) Lalim, and Tyler (Meghan) Lalim; 25 great-grandchildren; her sister, Cheryl Forhart; and numerous nieces and nephews. Alice was preceded in death by her parents, Otto and Mabel Vicha; her husband, Earl; her in-laws, Oscar and Cecilia Swenson; two brothers, Arthur Vicha and Glen Vicha; two sisters, Gladys Herdt and Vivian Thorson; brothers-in-law, Elmer Herd and Al Forhart; sister-in-law, Lois Vicha; nephew, Jerry Herdt; and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Red ID: FND_I_79205 Image ID: 529919 Image Notes: FND001 271709

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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