After 36 years in education, Omar and Rita looked for a change of occupation and enjoyed 4 years of mission work. They served as house parents for children of missionaries in Papua New Guinea. Omar and Rita then traveled around the USA in a travel trailer before retiring on the family farm in rural Walcott. Omar enjoyed traveling and visited all the continents but Antarctica, including four trips to ancestors in Norway. He was a member of Walcott Lutheran Church, Sons of Norway and Hallinglag.
He was preceded in death by brothers Theodore Arden and Burton, sister Ruth Svenkerud Sorlie, step granddaughter Karey Powell and infant grandson T. A. Amundson. Omar is survived by his wife, Rita; seven children, eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Omar will be fondly remembered by his foster children, foreign exchange students and missionary teens.
(Boulger Funeral Home, Fargo)
After 36 years in education, Omar and Rita looked for a change of occupation and enjoyed 4 years of mission work. They served as house parents for children of missionaries in Papua New Guinea. Omar and Rita then traveled around the USA in a travel trailer before retiring on the family farm in rural Walcott. Omar enjoyed traveling and visited all the continents but Antarctica, including four trips to ancestors in Norway. He was a member of Walcott Lutheran Church, Sons of Norway and Hallinglag.
He was preceded in death by brothers Theodore Arden and Burton, sister Ruth Svenkerud Sorlie, step granddaughter Karey Powell and infant grandson T. A. Amundson. Omar is survived by his wife, Rita; seven children, eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Omar will be fondly remembered by his foster children, foreign exchange students and missionary teens.
(Boulger Funeral Home, Fargo)
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