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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271823
Title: Beulah J. Bjugstad
Date: 12/23/1927-8/3/2020
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Inscription/Marks: 12/23/1927
Summary: Beulah J. Bjugstad, age 92, Glen Ullin, formerly of Sheyenne, ND passed away Monday, August 3, 2020 at Marian Manor Healthcare Center in Glen Ullin, ND. Beulah Jean Ploium was born December 23, 1927 at Oberon, ND, the daughter of Albert and Loretta (Johnson) Ploium, Sr. She grew up at Oberon and graduated as valedictorian of her class. Beulah taught school for one year and then married William Soggie on May 24th 1945 and had her family of eight children. William died in a farm accident in 1955. Beulah was a cook at the school in Sheyenne for a time. When her youngest child started school, she attended Lake Region Junior College in Devils Lake and graduated with a degree in business. She worked at the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Sheyenne for 13 years until it closed. She then worked at Sioux Manufacturing for a time. Beulah married Wilmer Bjugstad on November 29, 1980, at Grace Lutheran Church in Sheyenne, and they spent the summers in Sheyenne and the winter months in Mesa, Arizona for over thirty years. Wilmer died in 2013. She lived with her son Roger Soggie at Glen Ullin before entering Marian Manor Healthcare Center in May of 2015. Beulah is survived by her children, Sandi Lesmeister, Lake Holcombe, WI, Albert Soggie, Glen Ullin, ND, Deb (Stan) Stafford, New Rockford, ND, Chris Buckmeier, Eden Prairie, MN, Connie Braun, Leonard, ND, and Rick (Lisa) Soggie, Fargo, ND, three step-children, Erica (Paul) Phelps, Norman, OK, Dr. Allene Jackson, Norman, OK, and Christopher Jon (Oxana) Bjugstad, Boise, ID. three siblings, Marlene (Mervin) Stenberg, Mt. Vernon, WA, Kenneth (Eloise) Ploium, Oberon, ND, and Cheryl (Marvin) Franklin, Roseglen, ND, 16 grandchildren, three step-granddaughters, and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, son Roger Soggie, daughter Terry Tangen, sons-in-law, Phil Braun, Jerry Truaman, and Gary Lesmeister, and granddaughter, Marnie Soggie.
Red ID: FND_I_79318 Image ID: 537983 Image Notes: FND001 271823

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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