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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271747
Title: Ross R. Genre
Date: 10/19/1962-8/18/2025
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 10/19/1962
Summary: Ross Raymond Genre passed away unexpectedly on August 18, 2025, at his home in Carrington, ND. His funeral service was held August 25, 2025, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Carrington. Ross was born October 19, 1962, in Rugby, ND, to Dan and Mona Genre and lived on a ranch outside of Towner, ND. When he was 6 years old the family moved to Carrington where he attended school and graduated in 1980. Ross married his first wife and mother of his children, Carmen Rudolph, in 1984. They lived in Carrington and then moved to a farm north of Sykeston, ND, where he ran cattle and was a licensed cattle buyer with his brother and father, Rial Genre and Dan Genre, in running the family business, Genre Livestock. In about 2005 he started focusing on residential construction and plumbing. In 2014 Ross married Karin “Buffy” Sherman in Las Vegas, NV, and they lived in Carrington. The last year of his life he enjoyed bartending and telling his jokes at the Shamrock Bar in Carrington. Ross was an avid fisherman and a self-proclaimed “Walleye Assassin.” In 2022, his sons and son-in-law helped fulfill his lifelong dream of fishing in Alaska. Ross loved to tease, laugh, tell stories and was a man of MANY jokes. Even though their trophy case is empty, he was a lifelong, die hard, Vikings fan. He took after his dad, enjoying custom woodworking and making displays with antlers and also engraving them. Perhaps his favorite hobby of all was doing one good deed a day for anyone. It gave him much joy to help anyone he could. Ross is survived by his favorite son, Danny and his favorite son, Caleb and also his favorite daughter, Julia who married his favorite son-in-law, Nolan Johnson. He is also survived by two sisters, Renee Genre (Annette), Austin, TX, Rhonda Genre, Ipswich, SD; and brother, Rial Genre (Lynnette), Dickinson, ND; his former wives, Carmen Polson and Karin “Buffy” Sherman; and his dear friends, Floyd Schulz, Steve Seil, Boone Maxwell, Rich Myers and Corey McKibbin. Ross was preceded in death by his father and mother, Dan and Mona Genre.
Red ID: FND_I_79242 Image ID: 537186 Image Notes: FND001271747

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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