Grand Forks County, ND Obituaries

Grand Forks County, ND
Obituaries

Victor Albert Gierke
Newspaper: Kansas City Star (Missouri) May 29, 1996, Page C4, C5
Submitted By: Ida Maack Recu
Obit: Mr. Victor Albert Gierke, 81, died May 27, 1996, at Smith-Barr Nursing Home, Louisiana, MO. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, at Trinity Lutheran Church, where he was a founding member; burial in Riverview Cemetery, both in Louisiana, MO. Memorial contributions may be given to Trinity Lutheran
Church, Louisiana, MO, or Missouri Press Foundation, 8th & Locust, Columbia, MO, 65201. Mr. Gierke was born March 18, 1915, in Niagara, ND, the son of Albert Ferdinand and Rose Caroline Rodekohr Gierke. He was an award winning journalist. He married Laura Maxwell of Mexico, MO, September 13, 1941, in Dumont, MN; she survives. Also surviving are his son, Jim Gierke, Louisiana, MO; daughters, Mrs. Jim (Margaret) Crawford, McCall, ID, Mrs. Paul (Carolyn) Neunuebel, Huntsville, TX; sisters, Mrs. Elaine Daugherty, Guilford, CT, Mrs. Robert (Elsie) Kurth, Edina, MN, Mrs. Ed (Ruth) Glick, Salt Lake City, UT, Mrs. Norman (Adela) Erickson, Gresham, OR; five grandsons; one granddaughter;and one great-grandson. He was preceded in death by a brother, Rev. Arnold Gierke; sister, Lois Buenger; and a grandson, Jacob Adam Gierke. (Arrangements: Collier Funeral Service, Inc.)

Reinhart P. Kortnes
Grand Forks,ND
Oct 28, 1951
Reinhart P. Kortnes, 71, 1317 Eighth ave, S., died Saturday morning at a hospital here.
He was admitted Wednesday.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. at the Evanger Lutheran church with Rev. H.A.Lundle officiating.
Burial will be made in the church cemetery.
The body will lie in state this evening at the Norman funeral home.
Mr. Kortnes was born in Norway, June 18, 1880. He married Bertha Hanson there in 1899 and they came to the United States in 1903. He was first employed as a Great Northern section worker at Objata. He later farmed near Emerado and retired in 1937 to reside in Grand Forks.
His first wife died in 1934. Two years later he married Emma Wageman who survives.
While at Grand Forks, he returned to the employ of the Great Northern for six years. Since 1944, he was retired.
Survivers beside his wife,are three sons, Palmer and Robert Kortnes Eau Claire,Wis.; and Arthur Kortnes, Menasha ,Wis.; five daughters, Mrs. Truman Lowry, Colfax ,; Mrs.Borghild Crowson and Mrs. Harvey Ziebell, Eau Claire; Mrs. Chester Austinson, Hoople,ND, and Mrs. Gordon Donnelly, Long Beach,Calif.; a stepson, Albert Wageman, Grand Forks; A stepdaughter, Mrs. Agnes Wonsor, Calif.; a brother in Norway; 20 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
He was a member of Evanger Luthern church in Brenna township.
Submitted by Ralph Richardson - randy58@watchtv.net

Mrs. R.P. Kortnes
Grand Forks,ND
Dec. 8,1934

Mrs. R.P. Kortnes, 67 years old, resident of the Emerado community since 1905, died Friday in a Grand Forks hospital after a protracted illness, which became critical about a week ago.
Born in Norway, Mrs. Kortnes was married in 1899 and came to the United States six years later. With her husband she settled on a farm south of Ojata.
In addition to her husband she is survived by three sons, Palmer Kortnes of Eau Claire,Wisc., and Robert and Arthur Kortnes who reside on the farm home, and five daughters, Mrs. Henry Hanson, Mrs Truman Lowry. and Mrs. Arthur Crowson of Eau Claire, Wisc., and Clara and Ida Kortnes at home.
Funeral services will be Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the Norman funeral home, and at 2:30 p.m. in the Brenna Church with Rev. O.T. Ness officiating. Burial will be in the churchyard cemetery.
Submitted by Ralph Richardson - randy58@watchtv.net