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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271773
Title: Lois Hale
Date: 1/7/1959-9/6/2025
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 1/7/1959
Summary: Our beloved Lois Standish-Hale was born on January 7, 1959, and on September 6, 2025, she made her journey home. Her funeral services were held September 10, 2025, at the Living Waters Family Worship Center in Mandaree, ND, with Pastor Kevin Finley officiating. She married the love of her life, Leonard Hale, on May 5, 2015, in the courts followed by a traditional celebration on May 23, 2015. Together they built a life full of love, laughter, and family. Lois earned her Associate of Arts degree in Early Childhood Development from Fort Berthold Community College in 2003. She went on to dedicate her career to educating young children, serving in various roles including Head Start teacher, kindergarten teacher, the Baby Face Program, and paraprofessional. Throughout her years in education, Lois played a vital role in helping build a strong foundation for the youth of the Mandaree community. She found joy in life’s simple pleasures—playing four hand and horseshoe tournaments, picking plums, going to the casino, attending powwows, traveling, fishing, and making frybread. She cheered proudly for the Vikings, and even more proudly for her family as she watched them play sports. Her home was always filled with music and her cherished vinyl collection was a reflection of her deep love for it, which also included her love for ND22. Above all, her heart belonged to her family. She adored her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews, who brought endless light and happiness into her days. The heavens are having their reunion as Leo and Joyce’s last child has made her journey home—a journey that was surely a wild one as she was reunited with her beloved Standish siblings. She leaves behind a legacy of love, laughter, and treasured memories that will live on in all who knew her. Lois is survived by her children, Lloyd (Daniela), Dianna (Keith), Dion (Michelle), Fred (Jamie), Charles (Lindsey), Jordon (Chelsea), Gordon (Marie); grandchildren, great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Leo and Joyce (Bearstail) Standish; husband, Leonard Hale; brothers; sisters; nephews; and nieces.
Red ID: FND_I_79268 Image ID: 537184 Image Notes: FND001 271773

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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