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Herbert Allen Bodmer

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Herbert Allen Bodmer

Birth
Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota, USA
Death
12 Jun 1966 (aged 54)
Williston, Williams County, North Dakota, USA
Burial
Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota, USA GPS-Latitude: 48.662709, Longitude: -102.1017484
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Funeral services are being held this afternoon at two o’clock from Nazareth Lutheran Church, for Herbert A. Bodmer, 54, virtually a lifelong resident of the community, who succumbed at Williston Sunday.

The Rev. G.J. Mertz, pastor, will officiate, Mrs. Ezra Larsen will be organist and Harold E. Carlson, vocalist.

Bearers will be E.C. Johnson, W.L. McClung, Dr. R.T. Gammell, Dr. L.E. McCulley, A.J. Pederson. H.E. Gross, Ezra Larsen and Jack Coughlin.

The Ringen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, and interment will be made in Lakeview Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Bodmer had gone to Williston Saturday, to attend the wedding the following day of their son Paul, to Miss Judith Ann Rice, and Mr. Bodmer became ill that evening. He succumbed unexpectedly, Sunday afternoon.

Mr. Bodmer was born in Kenmare, Feb. 5, 1912, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bodmer. He graduated from the Kenmare schools and from the College of Pharmacy, North Dakota State University, in 1934. He subsequently engaged in farming, and had taken an active interest in community affairs.

He was one of the first Supervisors of the Gooseneck Soil Conservation District, and had been a member of the Kenmare School Board since July 1, 1959. He was a director of the Westland Oil Company.

Surviving in addition to Mrs. Bodmer, are five sons, Capt. George M., of Anchorage, Alaska, Lt. John A., Charleston, S.C., Paul H., Henry L., and Thomas C., of Kenmare.

There are two grandchildren.

He is also survived by a brother, James H. Bodmer, of Kenmare, with whom he has been associated in farming.

From the scrapbook of Lillian Lundgren Zeltinger who passed away in 1997. Supplied by Nancy Zeltinger Austin.
Funeral services are being held this afternoon at two o’clock from Nazareth Lutheran Church, for Herbert A. Bodmer, 54, virtually a lifelong resident of the community, who succumbed at Williston Sunday.

The Rev. G.J. Mertz, pastor, will officiate, Mrs. Ezra Larsen will be organist and Harold E. Carlson, vocalist.

Bearers will be E.C. Johnson, W.L. McClung, Dr. R.T. Gammell, Dr. L.E. McCulley, A.J. Pederson. H.E. Gross, Ezra Larsen and Jack Coughlin.

The Ringen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, and interment will be made in Lakeview Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Bodmer had gone to Williston Saturday, to attend the wedding the following day of their son Paul, to Miss Judith Ann Rice, and Mr. Bodmer became ill that evening. He succumbed unexpectedly, Sunday afternoon.

Mr. Bodmer was born in Kenmare, Feb. 5, 1912, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bodmer. He graduated from the Kenmare schools and from the College of Pharmacy, North Dakota State University, in 1934. He subsequently engaged in farming, and had taken an active interest in community affairs.

He was one of the first Supervisors of the Gooseneck Soil Conservation District, and had been a member of the Kenmare School Board since July 1, 1959. He was a director of the Westland Oil Company.

Surviving in addition to Mrs. Bodmer, are five sons, Capt. George M., of Anchorage, Alaska, Lt. John A., Charleston, S.C., Paul H., Henry L., and Thomas C., of Kenmare.

There are two grandchildren.

He is also survived by a brother, James H. Bodmer, of Kenmare, with whom he has been associated in farming.

From the scrapbook of Lillian Lundgren Zeltinger who passed away in 1997. Supplied by Nancy Zeltinger Austin.


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