Verna Lorraine Hilde, 89, Bismarck, formerly of Fargo, completed her earthly journey on March 15, 2010. Cremation has taken place through Bismarck Funeral Home, and her cremains will be interred in the family plot in Waldheim Lutheran Church Cemetery, near Kathryn. As she requested, there will be no memorial service.
The third child of Selmer and Betsy (Baarstad) Gilbertson, Verna was born Jan. 16, 1921, at Eastedge.
After graduating from Enderlin High School in 1938, Verna graduated from American Business College in Minneapolis. She met and married Nicholas Bernard Barr in Minneapolis, and she worked a number of years in the Minneapolis area before moving to Fargo. She was employed as a medical stenographer at TNI — St. Lukes/Merit Care for 17 years, retiring in 1981. Verna moved to Bismarck in 2001 and to the Baptist Home in April 2009.
Verna is survived by her nieces Rachel (Erv) Monson, Bismarck, Nancy Gilbertson (Tom Prall), Prairie City, Iowa, and Glory (Kevin) Hougham, Dubuque, Iowa; her grand-nieces, Kris (Matthew) Jobe, Rochester, Minn., and Jordan Hougham, Washington, D.C.; her great-grand niece, Laney Jobe, Rochester; her daughter-in-law, Jane Lauf Barr, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.; and a special niece-in-law, Vicki (Linc) Jepson and her family, Georges Mill, N.H.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her son Gary; her sister, Margaret; and her brothers, James and Gerald.
Her only child, Gary Barr, died in 1998 from colon cancer at the age of 52. In spite of this tragic loss, she continued to be loving, thoughtful and helpful. In big letters inside her address book she wrote: "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." Her memory would be blessed by your reaching out to someone who could benefit from a random act of kindness.
Memorials are preferred to Waldheim Lutheran Church, PO Box 198, Kathryn, N.D. 58049-0198.
Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2010 in the Bismarck Tribune
The third child of Selmer and Betsy (Baarstad) Gilbertson, Verna was born Jan. 16, 1921, at Eastedge.
After graduating from Enderlin High School in 1938, Verna graduated from American Business College in Minneapolis. She met and married Nicholas Bernard Barr in Minneapolis, and she worked a number of years in the Minneapolis area before moving to Fargo. She was employed as a medical stenographer at TNI — St. Lukes/Merit Care for 17 years, retiring in 1981. Verna moved to Bismarck in 2001 and to the Baptist Home in April 2009.
Verna is survived by her nieces Rachel (Erv) Monson, Bismarck, Nancy Gilbertson (Tom Prall), Prairie City, Iowa, and Glory (Kevin) Hougham, Dubuque, Iowa; her grand-nieces, Kris (Matthew) Jobe, Rochester, Minn., and Jordan Hougham, Washington, D.C.; her great-grand niece, Laney Jobe, Rochester; her daughter-in-law, Jane Lauf Barr, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.; and a special niece-in-law, Vicki (Linc) Jepson and her family, Georges Mill, N.H.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her son Gary; her sister, Margaret; and her brothers, James and Gerald.
Her only child, Gary Barr, died in 1998 from colon cancer at the age of 52. In spite of this tragic loss, she continued to be loving, thoughtful and helpful. In big letters inside her address book she wrote: "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." Her memory would be blessed by your reaching out to someone who could benefit from a random act of kindness.
Memorials are preferred to Waldheim Lutheran Church, PO Box 198, Kathryn, N.D. 58049-0198.
Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2010 in the Bismarck Tribune
Verna Lorraine Hilde, 89, Bismarck, formerly of Fargo, completed her earthly journey on March 15, 2010. Cremation has taken place through Bismarck Funeral Home, and her cremains will be interred in the family plot in Waldheim Lutheran Church Cemetery, near Kathryn. As she requested, there will be no memorial service.
The third child of Selmer and Betsy (Baarstad) Gilbertson, Verna was born Jan. 16, 1921, at Eastedge.
After graduating from Enderlin High School in 1938, Verna graduated from American Business College in Minneapolis. She met and married Nicholas Bernard Barr in Minneapolis, and she worked a number of years in the Minneapolis area before moving to Fargo. She was employed as a medical stenographer at TNI — St. Lukes/Merit Care for 17 years, retiring in 1981. Verna moved to Bismarck in 2001 and to the Baptist Home in April 2009.
Verna is survived by her nieces Rachel (Erv) Monson, Bismarck, Nancy Gilbertson (Tom Prall), Prairie City, Iowa, and Glory (Kevin) Hougham, Dubuque, Iowa; her grand-nieces, Kris (Matthew) Jobe, Rochester, Minn., and Jordan Hougham, Washington, D.C.; her great-grand niece, Laney Jobe, Rochester; her daughter-in-law, Jane Lauf Barr, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.; and a special niece-in-law, Vicki (Linc) Jepson and her family, Georges Mill, N.H.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her son Gary; her sister, Margaret; and her brothers, James and Gerald.
Her only child, Gary Barr, died in 1998 from colon cancer at the age of 52. In spite of this tragic loss, she continued to be loving, thoughtful and helpful. In big letters inside her address book she wrote: "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." Her memory would be blessed by your reaching out to someone who could benefit from a random act of kindness.
Memorials are preferred to Waldheim Lutheran Church, PO Box 198, Kathryn, N.D. 58049-0198.
Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2010 in the Bismarck Tribune
The third child of Selmer and Betsy (Baarstad) Gilbertson, Verna was born Jan. 16, 1921, at Eastedge.
After graduating from Enderlin High School in 1938, Verna graduated from American Business College in Minneapolis. She met and married Nicholas Bernard Barr in Minneapolis, and she worked a number of years in the Minneapolis area before moving to Fargo. She was employed as a medical stenographer at TNI — St. Lukes/Merit Care for 17 years, retiring in 1981. Verna moved to Bismarck in 2001 and to the Baptist Home in April 2009.
Verna is survived by her nieces Rachel (Erv) Monson, Bismarck, Nancy Gilbertson (Tom Prall), Prairie City, Iowa, and Glory (Kevin) Hougham, Dubuque, Iowa; her grand-nieces, Kris (Matthew) Jobe, Rochester, Minn., and Jordan Hougham, Washington, D.C.; her great-grand niece, Laney Jobe, Rochester; her daughter-in-law, Jane Lauf Barr, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.; and a special niece-in-law, Vicki (Linc) Jepson and her family, Georges Mill, N.H.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her son Gary; her sister, Margaret; and her brothers, James and Gerald.
Her only child, Gary Barr, died in 1998 from colon cancer at the age of 52. In spite of this tragic loss, she continued to be loving, thoughtful and helpful. In big letters inside her address book she wrote: "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." Her memory would be blessed by your reaching out to someone who could benefit from a random act of kindness.
Memorials are preferred to Waldheim Lutheran Church, PO Box 198, Kathryn, N.D. 58049-0198.
Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2010 in the Bismarck Tribune
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