From the Burke County [North Dakota] Tribune, April, 1997:
Norman Nygaard
Nov. 20, 1906-April 22, 1997
A memorial service was held at The Rex Ranch with the support of family and friends to say a more final good-bye to the man who was husband and father. On June 26, a memorial service will be held in Flaxton at the United Lutheran Church.
Norman died in Green Valley, Ariz., Tuesday, April 22, 1997. This has been a long farewell because of the Alzeimer’s [sic] Disease which challenged all of us these last years. Norman’s death has been coming, forcing us to live through each day and teaching us that all things shall pass. These last years have been about learning. Some of the learning we would like to share with others. We would also ask that you feel free to share with us the stories and remembrances of this man who lived so actively and passionately. This interaction is part of the community spirit which Norman exemplified.
Norman Nygaard was born November 20, 1906 in Richland Township, north of Flaxton, on the farm of his parents. His mother, Margarethe Andersen and his father, Anders Jorgen Nygaard were Danish immigrants who met and married in the United States after leaving Bornholm Island and the Odense areas of Denmark respectively. Norman was the oldest of their three children. He farmed the family land with his brother, Helmer, now of Kenmare. Norman’s sister, Margaret Urton shared the farm with her brothers and father until marriage. She now resides in Conrad, Mont.
Norman was married to Mereith Urton, October 16, 1937 in Fort Benson, Mont. They farmed, gardened and lived between North Dakota and Arizona with their four children: daughters, Marcia Olney of Flaxton, Connie Ann Transue of Tucson, Ariz., and Patricia of Amado, Ariz.; and son, Leland of Richmond, Va. Norman has seven grandchildren.
This man focused his life and livelihood on farming, gardening, community activism and physical health practices. He was educated in the Richland Township school, Danish Folk School at Tyler, Minn., and North Dakota State School of Science at Wahpeton. Through his live, Norman read avidly, educating himself in the areas of personal physical health and nutrition, horticulture, history, national and state politics.
His joys included sports of all kinds, walking, running, games, cards and croquet. The Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Browns and Universities of Arizona and Minnesota lost one of their most faithful fans with Norman’s passing.
He loved to share the bounty of the gardens and orchards he and Mereith created and nurtured as well as visiting neighbors and appreciating their crops and gardens.
Norman continued to speak, read and write his primary language of Danish throughout his life, maintaining a life long correspondence with his father’s family in Denmark who he visited with Mereith three times.
Local organizations valued by and receiving Norman’s participation were Burke-Divide Rural Electric Association, Flaxton Farmer’s Oil Company of which he was a lng time board member, Farmer’s Union local, county and state organizations and the Democratic Non-Partisan League. He also served as superintendent of grains, grasses and produce at the Burke County Fair and was baptized and confirmed at Evangelical Lutheran Church and participated in the preservation and beautification of its cemetery.
Norman was a brilliant and adventuresome man in many ways. He took risks to learn and grow, while teaching those he left that much can be learned from the hardships of the mental debilitation that ended his life.
Any memorials may be sent to Hospice Family Care, 210 W. Continental, Suite 134, Green Valley, AZ 85614.
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Norman Nygaard
Nov. 20, 1906-April 22, 1997
A memorial service was held at The Rex Ranch with the support of family and friends to say a more final good-bye to the man who was husband and father. On June 26, a memorial service will be held in Flaxton at the United Lutheran Church.
Norman died in Green Valley, Ariz., Tuesday, April 22, 1997. This has been a long farewell because of the Alzeimer’s [sic] Disease which challenged all of us these last years. Norman’s death has been coming, forcing us to live through each day and teaching us that all things shall pass. These last years have been about learning. Some of the learning we would like to share with others. We would also ask that you feel free to share with us the stories and remembrances of this man who lived so actively and passionately. This interaction is part of the community spirit which Norman exemplified.
Norman Nygaard was born November 20, 1906 in Richland Township, north of Flaxton, on the farm of his parents. His mother, Margarethe Andersen and his father, Anders Jorgen Nygaard were Danish immigrants who met and married in the United States after leaving Bornholm Island and the Odense areas of Denmark respectively. Norman was the oldest of their three children. He farmed the family land with his brother, Helmer, now of Kenmare. Norman’s sister, Margaret Urton shared the farm with her brothers and father until marriage. She now resides in Conrad, Mont.
Norman was married to Mereith Urton, October 16, 1937 in Fort Benson, Mont. They farmed, gardened and lived between North Dakota and Arizona with their four children: daughters, Marcia Olney of Flaxton, Connie Ann Transue of Tucson, Ariz., and Patricia of Amado, Ariz.; and son, Leland of Richmond, Va. Norman has seven grandchildren.
This man focused his life and livelihood on farming, gardening, community activism and physical health practices. He was educated in the Richland Township school, Danish Folk School at Tyler, Minn., and North Dakota State School of Science at Wahpeton. Through his live, Norman read avidly, educating himself in the areas of personal physical health and nutrition, horticulture, history, national and state politics.
His joys included sports of all kinds, walking, running, games, cards and croquet. The Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Browns and Universities of Arizona and Minnesota lost one of their most faithful fans with Norman’s passing.
He loved to share the bounty of the gardens and orchards he and Mereith created and nurtured as well as visiting neighbors and appreciating their crops and gardens.
Norman continued to speak, read and write his primary language of Danish throughout his life, maintaining a life long correspondence with his father’s family in Denmark who he visited with Mereith three times.
Local organizations valued by and receiving Norman’s participation were Burke-Divide Rural Electric Association, Flaxton Farmer’s Oil Company of which he was a lng time board member, Farmer’s Union local, county and state organizations and the Democratic Non-Partisan League. He also served as superintendent of grains, grasses and produce at the Burke County Fair and was baptized and confirmed at Evangelical Lutheran Church and participated in the preservation and beautification of its cemetery.
Norman was a brilliant and adventuresome man in many ways. He took risks to learn and grow, while teaching those he left that much can be learned from the hardships of the mental debilitation that ended his life.
Any memorials may be sent to Hospice Family Care, 210 W. Continental, Suite 134, Green Valley, AZ 85614.
Supplied by jwareing #48151846
From the Burke County [North Dakota] Tribune, April, 1997:
Norman Nygaard
Nov. 20, 1906-April 22, 1997
A memorial service was held at The Rex Ranch with the support of family and friends to say a more final good-bye to the man who was husband and father. On June 26, a memorial service will be held in Flaxton at the United Lutheran Church.
Norman died in Green Valley, Ariz., Tuesday, April 22, 1997. This has been a long farewell because of the Alzeimer’s [sic] Disease which challenged all of us these last years. Norman’s death has been coming, forcing us to live through each day and teaching us that all things shall pass. These last years have been about learning. Some of the learning we would like to share with others. We would also ask that you feel free to share with us the stories and remembrances of this man who lived so actively and passionately. This interaction is part of the community spirit which Norman exemplified.
Norman Nygaard was born November 20, 1906 in Richland Township, north of Flaxton, on the farm of his parents. His mother, Margarethe Andersen and his father, Anders Jorgen Nygaard were Danish immigrants who met and married in the United States after leaving Bornholm Island and the Odense areas of Denmark respectively. Norman was the oldest of their three children. He farmed the family land with his brother, Helmer, now of Kenmare. Norman’s sister, Margaret Urton shared the farm with her brothers and father until marriage. She now resides in Conrad, Mont.
Norman was married to Mereith Urton, October 16, 1937 in Fort Benson, Mont. They farmed, gardened and lived between North Dakota and Arizona with their four children: daughters, Marcia Olney of Flaxton, Connie Ann Transue of Tucson, Ariz., and Patricia of Amado, Ariz.; and son, Leland of Richmond, Va. Norman has seven grandchildren.
This man focused his life and livelihood on farming, gardening, community activism and physical health practices. He was educated in the Richland Township school, Danish Folk School at Tyler, Minn., and North Dakota State School of Science at Wahpeton. Through his live, Norman read avidly, educating himself in the areas of personal physical health and nutrition, horticulture, history, national and state politics.
His joys included sports of all kinds, walking, running, games, cards and croquet. The Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Browns and Universities of Arizona and Minnesota lost one of their most faithful fans with Norman’s passing.
He loved to share the bounty of the gardens and orchards he and Mereith created and nurtured as well as visiting neighbors and appreciating their crops and gardens.
Norman continued to speak, read and write his primary language of Danish throughout his life, maintaining a life long correspondence with his father’s family in Denmark who he visited with Mereith three times.
Local organizations valued by and receiving Norman’s participation were Burke-Divide Rural Electric Association, Flaxton Farmer’s Oil Company of which he was a lng time board member, Farmer’s Union local, county and state organizations and the Democratic Non-Partisan League. He also served as superintendent of grains, grasses and produce at the Burke County Fair and was baptized and confirmed at Evangelical Lutheran Church and participated in the preservation and beautification of its cemetery.
Norman was a brilliant and adventuresome man in many ways. He took risks to learn and grow, while teaching those he left that much can be learned from the hardships of the mental debilitation that ended his life.
Any memorials may be sent to Hospice Family Care, 210 W. Continental, Suite 134, Green Valley, AZ 85614.
Supplied by jwareing #48151846
Norman Nygaard
Nov. 20, 1906-April 22, 1997
A memorial service was held at The Rex Ranch with the support of family and friends to say a more final good-bye to the man who was husband and father. On June 26, a memorial service will be held in Flaxton at the United Lutheran Church.
Norman died in Green Valley, Ariz., Tuesday, April 22, 1997. This has been a long farewell because of the Alzeimer’s [sic] Disease which challenged all of us these last years. Norman’s death has been coming, forcing us to live through each day and teaching us that all things shall pass. These last years have been about learning. Some of the learning we would like to share with others. We would also ask that you feel free to share with us the stories and remembrances of this man who lived so actively and passionately. This interaction is part of the community spirit which Norman exemplified.
Norman Nygaard was born November 20, 1906 in Richland Township, north of Flaxton, on the farm of his parents. His mother, Margarethe Andersen and his father, Anders Jorgen Nygaard were Danish immigrants who met and married in the United States after leaving Bornholm Island and the Odense areas of Denmark respectively. Norman was the oldest of their three children. He farmed the family land with his brother, Helmer, now of Kenmare. Norman’s sister, Margaret Urton shared the farm with her brothers and father until marriage. She now resides in Conrad, Mont.
Norman was married to Mereith Urton, October 16, 1937 in Fort Benson, Mont. They farmed, gardened and lived between North Dakota and Arizona with their four children: daughters, Marcia Olney of Flaxton, Connie Ann Transue of Tucson, Ariz., and Patricia of Amado, Ariz.; and son, Leland of Richmond, Va. Norman has seven grandchildren.
This man focused his life and livelihood on farming, gardening, community activism and physical health practices. He was educated in the Richland Township school, Danish Folk School at Tyler, Minn., and North Dakota State School of Science at Wahpeton. Through his live, Norman read avidly, educating himself in the areas of personal physical health and nutrition, horticulture, history, national and state politics.
His joys included sports of all kinds, walking, running, games, cards and croquet. The Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Browns and Universities of Arizona and Minnesota lost one of their most faithful fans with Norman’s passing.
He loved to share the bounty of the gardens and orchards he and Mereith created and nurtured as well as visiting neighbors and appreciating their crops and gardens.
Norman continued to speak, read and write his primary language of Danish throughout his life, maintaining a life long correspondence with his father’s family in Denmark who he visited with Mereith three times.
Local organizations valued by and receiving Norman’s participation were Burke-Divide Rural Electric Association, Flaxton Farmer’s Oil Company of which he was a lng time board member, Farmer’s Union local, county and state organizations and the Democratic Non-Partisan League. He also served as superintendent of grains, grasses and produce at the Burke County Fair and was baptized and confirmed at Evangelical Lutheran Church and participated in the preservation and beautification of its cemetery.
Norman was a brilliant and adventuresome man in many ways. He took risks to learn and grow, while teaching those he left that much can be learned from the hardships of the mental debilitation that ended his life.
Any memorials may be sent to Hospice Family Care, 210 W. Continental, Suite 134, Green Valley, AZ 85614.
Supplied by jwareing #48151846
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