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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271865
Title: Ruth J. Haugen
Date: 12/10/2020-3/30/1920
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Inscription/Marks: 3/30/1920
Summary: Ruth Joyce Haugen, 100, Fort Collins, CO, formerly of Westhope, ND, passed away December 10, 2020, at the home of her daughter, Annette Metcalf. Ruth was born March 30, 1920, to Harry and Helen (Larson) Maltby in Coteau, ND, on a snowy day with the doctor arriving by horse and sleigh. She was the second born of five siblings. She was called Baby for a couple of months before her parents decided on naming her Ruth Joyce. She attended grade school and graduated from Coteau High School in 1938 and went on to college in Minot, ND, and Minneapolis, MN, to become a teacher. She taught grades 5th through 8th in a one-room school house outside of Coteau. Ruth moved to Westhope in 1947 and worked at Hovland’s Rexall Drug Store in Westhope where she met Henry Haugen. They were married on October 2, 1951, and started their family on the Haugen farmstead with the arrivals of Annette and Janice. They lived on the family farm until 1994 when they moved into the senior apartments in Westhope. Henry passed away September 21, 1995. Ruth was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Westhope and her faith was very important to her. She and her sisters sang at Sunday church services and weddings in Coteau. Ruth taught kindergarten and 1st grade Sunday school classes for 40 years. She was a Girl Scout troop leader and Ombudsman. Ruth was a member of the Westhope Garden Club, Ruth Circle Bible Study, Ladies Aid, Church Council, Lutheran Cheer Ladies and Westhope Seniors. She delivered Meals on Wheels to local residents in Westhope. Ruth enjoyed nature, especially bird watching. She was an avid reader and also loved baking, crafts, sewing and gardening. Roses were one of her favorite flowers. She is survived by daughters Annette Metcalf, Fort Collins, CO, and Janice (Steve) Sweeney, Minot, ND, sister, Ardyce Melby, Crosby, ND, and sister-in-law, Ann Maltby, Billings, MT; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry; parents, Harry and Helen Maltby, sister, Harriet Hovland; brothers, Delbert “Bud” Maltby, Denton Maltby; maternal and paternal grandparents; sisters-in-law, Lue Maltby, Faye Haugen, Myrtle Friederich; brothers-in-law, Dwaine Melby, Harold Hovland, Norman Haugen, Ole Haugen, Herman Haugen, and Julius Friederich; nieces, Sallie Munn and Jennifer Maltby; and nephew, Lynn Haugen.
Red ID: FND_I_79360 Image ID: 538441 Image Notes: FND001 271865

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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