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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 272007
Title: Tanya M. Ekart
Date: 2/17/1960-11/25/2021
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 2/17/1960
Summary: Tanya Marie Ekart, 61, died Nov. 25, 2021, at her home in Bismarck. Mass of Christian burial was held 11 a.m. Monday, Dec 20 at Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, 519 Raymond St., Bismarck. Burial was held at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Bismarck. Tanya was born February 17, 1960, at El Dorado, Kansas, the daughter of Sylvester C. and Marna J. (Murray) Ekart. She attended grade schools in Eureka, KS, and in Towanda, Somerset and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. She graduated from St. Mary’s High School and University of Mary, both of Bismarck. While working in Indianapolis, Indiana, she earned a CPA degree. She worked for the Department of Defense (DOD) at 5th Army Headquarters at Fort Riley, Kansas, and for DOD at the Presidio in California before her transfer to DOD Financial Center in Indianapolis. While at Indianapolis, she completed an assignment for DOD in Japan. She later worked for the US Forest Service in Bismarck and Albuquerque, New Mexico. She retired from federal service at Department of Homeland Security in 2020 in Bismarck. Tanya was a member of and active in the CCD program at Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Bismarck. She is survived by her daughter, Taylor Marie Ekart, Decatur, Ill.; father, Sylvester Ekart, Bismarck; sister, Sharon (Don), Savage, Minn.; brothers, Brian Ekart, New Brighton, Minn., and brother, Jim (Jeanne) Ekart, Bismarck; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother Marna in 2019.
Red ID: FND_I_79502 Image ID: 547552 Image Notes: FND001 272007

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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