Mabel Nina (Thompson) Rockstad began life March 26, 1912 at Doran, MN and entered into eternal life March 26, 2009 from her home in rural Walcott, ND.
Born to Hellik and Andrine (Bakken) Thompson, Mabel was baptized at the Stiklestad Lutheran Church in rural Doran. In 1913, the family bought land west of Walcott and homesteaded there. Mabel received her education at Viking School #1 at rural Walcott and was confirmed at the Viking Lutheran Church.
On May 12, 1934 she married Oscar Rockstad. The couple farmed and ranched west of Walcott all their lives. Oscar died in 1964 following a nine year heart condition resulting from a heart attack suffered during the Walcott tornado in 1955.
Mabel belonged to and was active in the Walcott Lutheran Church where she enjoyed mission quilting for many years. Mabel enjoyed her family, numerous family animals, reading, cooking, growing her hundreds of evergreen trees, and spending time at the family home on Ottertail Lake. During her retirement years, Mabel was still the shepherd of her flock, tending sheep until she was 91. Mabel enjoyed extensive travel in the United States and overseas.
Farming's trials and tribulations took her from her most embarrassing moment of having to plant corn with a mismatched team of horses in 1925, to one of her more proud agri-moments of insisting to her renter (after considerable research) that they plant sunflowers for a cash crop in the very early 1960's, making her one of the very first farmers in the region to have that insight.
Mabel died in her own home in rural Walcott, where she had lived for the last 69 years, surrounded by her family, friends, animal family, and assisted by Riveredge Hospice.
Mabel is survived by her children: Mercedes Lickfelt, James Rockstad, Ronald Rockstad, Lianne Rockstad; her daughters-in-law, Beverly Thompson, Annette Thompson; nine grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.
Mabel is preceded in death by her husband: Oscar; son: Howard A. Thompson; all of her siblings: Carl Thompson, Albert Thompson, Helmer Thompson, Anne Fiske, Betty Shevlin, Helene Thomas; and her two grandsons: Larry Thompson, Torgen Rockstad, and son-in-law: Stan Lickfelt.
(Fredrikson Funeral Chapel, Kindred, ND)
Born to Hellik and Andrine (Bakken) Thompson, Mabel was baptized at the Stiklestad Lutheran Church in rural Doran. In 1913, the family bought land west of Walcott and homesteaded there. Mabel received her education at Viking School #1 at rural Walcott and was confirmed at the Viking Lutheran Church.
On May 12, 1934 she married Oscar Rockstad. The couple farmed and ranched west of Walcott all their lives. Oscar died in 1964 following a nine year heart condition resulting from a heart attack suffered during the Walcott tornado in 1955.
Mabel belonged to and was active in the Walcott Lutheran Church where she enjoyed mission quilting for many years. Mabel enjoyed her family, numerous family animals, reading, cooking, growing her hundreds of evergreen trees, and spending time at the family home on Ottertail Lake. During her retirement years, Mabel was still the shepherd of her flock, tending sheep until she was 91. Mabel enjoyed extensive travel in the United States and overseas.
Farming's trials and tribulations took her from her most embarrassing moment of having to plant corn with a mismatched team of horses in 1925, to one of her more proud agri-moments of insisting to her renter (after considerable research) that they plant sunflowers for a cash crop in the very early 1960's, making her one of the very first farmers in the region to have that insight.
Mabel died in her own home in rural Walcott, where she had lived for the last 69 years, surrounded by her family, friends, animal family, and assisted by Riveredge Hospice.
Mabel is survived by her children: Mercedes Lickfelt, James Rockstad, Ronald Rockstad, Lianne Rockstad; her daughters-in-law, Beverly Thompson, Annette Thompson; nine grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.
Mabel is preceded in death by her husband: Oscar; son: Howard A. Thompson; all of her siblings: Carl Thompson, Albert Thompson, Helmer Thompson, Anne Fiske, Betty Shevlin, Helene Thomas; and her two grandsons: Larry Thompson, Torgen Rockstad, and son-in-law: Stan Lickfelt.
(Fredrikson Funeral Chapel, Kindred, ND)
Mabel Nina (Thompson) Rockstad began life March 26, 1912 at Doran, MN and entered into eternal life March 26, 2009 from her home in rural Walcott, ND.
Born to Hellik and Andrine (Bakken) Thompson, Mabel was baptized at the Stiklestad Lutheran Church in rural Doran. In 1913, the family bought land west of Walcott and homesteaded there. Mabel received her education at Viking School #1 at rural Walcott and was confirmed at the Viking Lutheran Church.
On May 12, 1934 she married Oscar Rockstad. The couple farmed and ranched west of Walcott all their lives. Oscar died in 1964 following a nine year heart condition resulting from a heart attack suffered during the Walcott tornado in 1955.
Mabel belonged to and was active in the Walcott Lutheran Church where she enjoyed mission quilting for many years. Mabel enjoyed her family, numerous family animals, reading, cooking, growing her hundreds of evergreen trees, and spending time at the family home on Ottertail Lake. During her retirement years, Mabel was still the shepherd of her flock, tending sheep until she was 91. Mabel enjoyed extensive travel in the United States and overseas.
Farming's trials and tribulations took her from her most embarrassing moment of having to plant corn with a mismatched team of horses in 1925, to one of her more proud agri-moments of insisting to her renter (after considerable research) that they plant sunflowers for a cash crop in the very early 1960's, making her one of the very first farmers in the region to have that insight.
Mabel died in her own home in rural Walcott, where she had lived for the last 69 years, surrounded by her family, friends, animal family, and assisted by Riveredge Hospice.
Mabel is survived by her children: Mercedes Lickfelt, James Rockstad, Ronald Rockstad, Lianne Rockstad; her daughters-in-law, Beverly Thompson, Annette Thompson; nine grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.
Mabel is preceded in death by her husband: Oscar; son: Howard A. Thompson; all of her siblings: Carl Thompson, Albert Thompson, Helmer Thompson, Anne Fiske, Betty Shevlin, Helene Thomas; and her two grandsons: Larry Thompson, Torgen Rockstad, and son-in-law: Stan Lickfelt.
(Fredrikson Funeral Chapel, Kindred, ND)
Born to Hellik and Andrine (Bakken) Thompson, Mabel was baptized at the Stiklestad Lutheran Church in rural Doran. In 1913, the family bought land west of Walcott and homesteaded there. Mabel received her education at Viking School #1 at rural Walcott and was confirmed at the Viking Lutheran Church.
On May 12, 1934 she married Oscar Rockstad. The couple farmed and ranched west of Walcott all their lives. Oscar died in 1964 following a nine year heart condition resulting from a heart attack suffered during the Walcott tornado in 1955.
Mabel belonged to and was active in the Walcott Lutheran Church where she enjoyed mission quilting for many years. Mabel enjoyed her family, numerous family animals, reading, cooking, growing her hundreds of evergreen trees, and spending time at the family home on Ottertail Lake. During her retirement years, Mabel was still the shepherd of her flock, tending sheep until she was 91. Mabel enjoyed extensive travel in the United States and overseas.
Farming's trials and tribulations took her from her most embarrassing moment of having to plant corn with a mismatched team of horses in 1925, to one of her more proud agri-moments of insisting to her renter (after considerable research) that they plant sunflowers for a cash crop in the very early 1960's, making her one of the very first farmers in the region to have that insight.
Mabel died in her own home in rural Walcott, where she had lived for the last 69 years, surrounded by her family, friends, animal family, and assisted by Riveredge Hospice.
Mabel is survived by her children: Mercedes Lickfelt, James Rockstad, Ronald Rockstad, Lianne Rockstad; her daughters-in-law, Beverly Thompson, Annette Thompson; nine grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.
Mabel is preceded in death by her husband: Oscar; son: Howard A. Thompson; all of her siblings: Carl Thompson, Albert Thompson, Helmer Thompson, Anne Fiske, Betty Shevlin, Helene Thomas; and her two grandsons: Larry Thompson, Torgen Rockstad, and son-in-law: Stan Lickfelt.
(Fredrikson Funeral Chapel, Kindred, ND)
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