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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 272073
Title: Selma "Sally" E. Laub
Date: 11/11/1924-6/21/2024
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 11/11/1924
Summary: Selma “Sally” Laub, 99, Bismarck, ND, passed away June 21, 2024. Funeral services were held July 2, 2024, at Zion Lutheran Church, Bismarck. Burial was at Sunset Memorial Gardens, Bismarck. Selma Elizabeth Siirtola was born November 11, 1924, to Heimo and Aino (Pesonen) Siirtola, Wing, ND. She grew up on the farm and attended rural school through the eighth grade and graduated from Bismarck High School in 1944. She married Lester G. Laub in October 1948 and they lived in Bismarck. In 1987, she retired after working 40 years at the state treasurer’s office. After retiring, she and Lester did a lot of traveling and spent many winters in Seminole, FL. She is survived by one brother, Henry, Wing; and one sister-in-law, Clara Siirtola; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; grandparents; four sisters, Linda Dehne, Martha Saari, Hulda Little, and baby Anna; and four brothers, Felix, Everett, Leonard and Francis “Frank.”
Red ID: FND_I_79568 Image ID: 555508 Image Notes: FND001 272073

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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