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Hanzy “Hank” Woodrow Horn, retired Plant Services worker of Grand Forks, passed away peacefully on Nov. 21, 2020, at home from complications due to COVID pneumonia. He was 85. He loved the Lord, his family, and this country with all he had. Hank met everyone with a gentle smile and a kind heart. Hank was […]

Sharon Johnson, 69, retired administrative assistant for the education department, passed away at home in East Grand Forks on Nov. 19, 2020. Sharon Mae Goergen was born on May 8, 1951. She was raised alongside younger brother, Donald Goergen, in Euclid, MN by parents Robert Goergen and Carrol (Tiedeman) Goergen. She attended high school in […]

Joyce Mae Stoltman, retired Dining Services staff mamber, Grand Forks, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 at Altru Hospital, Grand Forks. She was 90. Joyce Mae Paschke was born on Jan. 17, 1930, in Oslo, Minn., the daughter of Frank and Joanna (Misialek) Paschke. She attended school in Oslo and completed her studies at the […]

Connie R. Norling, retired telecommunications staff member, passed away Sunday, October 18, 2020 at Valley Senior Living-Woodside Village in Grand Forks. She was 82. Connie Rosetta Bartlette was born Aug. 21, 1938, in Langdon, N.D., to Mabel (Rousseau) Bartlette and Arthur J Bartlette. Connie graduated from Walhalla High School and then moved to Grand Forks. […]

Dr. Mark Siegel, retired professor and chair of surgery, Grand Forks, died on Saturday, October 10, 2020, of complications related to colon cancer. He was 71 Mark Bernard Siegel was born December 19, 1948 to Dr. Maurice and Lillian (Nirenberg) Siegel in Los Angeles, California. He attended University of California, Berkeley and subsequently graduated from […]

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we honor those who have served the United States in uniform. The University of North Dakota remains committed to our veterans and their family members. Please see my video message honoring those in our community who have served.

Mardi Holland passed away peacefully on Sept. 17, 2020. Margine Copeland McVey Holland (Mardi) was born to H.B. and Margine (Copeland) McVey June 6, 1923, on a farm near Hillsboro, Ohio. She moved with her family to Philadelphia, was graduated from Abington Friends School, Jenkintown, Pa., and was graduated from Oberlin College where she met […]

David Gipp, a UND graduate who become a giant of the Tribal College movement and who led United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck for 37 years, died on Friday, Sept. 11, at his home and with family members present. Gipp passed away after a long illness. An enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, […]

Patrick A. Hurley, 86, of Grand Forks, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020 in Altru Hospital in Grand Forks. He retired from UND Atmospheric Sciences in 2003, and was instrumental in helping John Odegard found the department.

Thomas Michael DiLorenzo, recently retired provost and vice president for academic affairs at UND, died July 17, 2020, in Charleston, S.C. He was 63. A lifelong learner, teacher, leader in higher education and lover of his family and life itself, he was born in Greensburg, Pa., to Emil and Mary Jane DiLorenzo. Tom was the […]

Donald Keith Lemon, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education & Human Development, passed away June 22, 2020, at the age of 85. Don was born to Hatton O. and Frances (Summers) Lemon on Dec. 3, 1934, the third of three children, in Moberly, Mo. His parents owned a grocery store in Missouri. At 10 […]

Loretta Ann Coulter, retired supervisor at UND Plant Services, passed away peacefully on May 21, 2020, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minn., at the age of 76. Loretta was born Sept. 16, 1943, in Grafton, N.D. to Agnes (Kroll) and John Helmowski. She later graduated from Minto High School and was married to Gene […]

Caryl Anne Pederson, retired staff member at the former Computer Center, Sparta, Wisc., passed away on May 18, 2020. She was born to L. Orwell and Nina M. (Marchildon) Holmberg of Cummings, N.D., on Feb. 1, 1943, in Grand Forks. Caryl attended Ervin # 4 country school through 8th grade and graduated from Climax High […]

Long time Associate Editor of Sports Afield and Trustee of the North Dakota Museum of Art, Lois Elizabeth Wilde died on May 10, 2020 at Edgewood Parkwood Place in Grand Forks. She was born in 1922 in Grand Forks, attended local public schools, and graduated in 1944 from the University of North Dakota with a […]

Alice Billings Thompson Clark, retired vice president for academic affairs, died May 10 at age 94. She was the first woman to hold a vice president’s or administrative position at a North Dakota university, and served at UND for 27 years before retiring in 1992. The Alice T. Clark Faculty Mentoring Program is named for […]