09/15/2010

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Obituary provided by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND

Nero Funeral Home

 
 
 

 

 
 
 

Lars Sivertson
(Died September 12, 2010)

Lars Sivertson, age 84 of Bottineau, died Sunday at a Bottineau hospital. Funeral will be held on Saturday at 10:00 am at the Grace Lutheran Brethern Church in Bottineau. Visitation will be Friday from 10:00 am until 9:00 pm at the Nero Funeral Home in Bottineau.Lars Sivertson, a son of Lewis and Tonette (Wold) Sivertson, was born on July 18, 1926 in the Turtle Mountains near Bottineau. He was educated at Loon Lake School #1 and Bottineau High School. On January 3, 1959, he married Ruby Adams of Kramer in the Turtle Mountains. They made their home on the family farm where Lars farmed all his life.

Lars was a charter member of the Grace Lutheran Brethren Church in Bottineau, where he served as an elder for many years. Over the years, Lars also served on the Homen Township Board, Loon Lake School Distirct Board and was an active member of the Republican Party. He also served as a volunteer fireman in the Turtle Mountains for a time.

He is survived by his wife Ruby of Bottineau, daughter, Theresa (Tom) Delikat of Sells, AZ; sons, Mike (Donnet) Sivertson, of Bottineau; Mark (Rita) Sivertson of Williston and Paul (Velda) of Casper, WY; grandchildren, Brooks Sivertson, Andrew Delikat, Jessica (Brandon) Asker, Rachael (Jacob) Ferris, Sarah (Ben) Bader, Brenden Sivertson, Ciera Sivertson, Jill Sivertson and Joe Sivertson; step-grandchildren, Nicholas Monson and Riley Monson.

Arrangements were with Nero Funeral Home in Bottineau.

Ruby Sivertson

2025 108th St NE

Bottineau, ND 58318-6004

 

 
 
 
From Allen Richard (65): Midland, MI

To Lee Stickland:

 

You a pilot? I got my license back in 1980. Used it to fly back and forth to the legislature ant to take members to and from meetings. Expenses were paid for that. Haven’t flown since 2001. Nobody to cover the expenses.

 

Got my license from Leonard Krech in Rolla. He was amazing.

 

Have a nice day–thanks for bringing back a fond memory. And the Peace Garden airport can be a bit challenging.

 

Allen
 
 
Reply from Keith Pladson (66): Stafford, VA
 

Gary,
In Mark Schimetz’s response to Dwight Lang he mentioned the names of nine men from Dunseith (and Bottineau) who went through basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO and he included your name in his list. Is that correct – that you went to Ft. Leonard Wood? I’m curious as I was sent to Ft. Lewis, WA for my basic training (and AIT too). I’ve never been to Ft. Leonard Wood, but I’m sure the training was pretty much the same at either base. I do know that it rained a lot at Ft.. Lewis – especially during the period I was there for basic (April – May 1969).

Interestingly, during the course of my basic training a couple of news worthy events took place in North Dakota. The first was the major flooding in Minot from all the snow melt that spring. My sister Fern lived in Minot at the time and she sent me copies of the Minot paper with all the photograph, etc. The other was the big contest held in Zap, ND. If I recall correctly class members of both the Universities of North Dakota and North Dakota State decided to have a beer drinking contest and chose Zap as the location. As memory serves, it was supposed to be on a Saturday, but contestants (and I’m sure a lot of them weren’t affiliated with either University) started showing up on the preceding Thursday and by Saturday, the National Guard had been called in to stop the event and restore order. Maybe others remember that rather infamous event better than I do (or perhaps even attended!).

Back to my basic training; we had only two platoons in our training company instead of the normal four. The one platoon was composed of about 90 percent Oregonians and the other 10 percent from all over and our platoon was about 90 percent North Dakotans and the other 10 percent from all over. So naturally there was a rivalry between the two platoons.. The Oregonians called us “dumb plow boys” and we called them “dumb logger heads.” There were a few scuffles from time to time, but fortunately nothing really bad came out of the rivalry. However, we always chose to travel in twos when we had to go by their building for any reason – just to be safe.

I also remember two individuals in our platoon who both came from the Bismarck area. One was blond and the other had almost black hair. In any case, they both had hair that reached down well over their shoulders. Since all of us who came from the Ward, Bottineau and Rolette counties had considerably shorter hair, these two individuals really stuck out and for the first couple of days I guess we kind of ostracized them because of their hair. But, as you can imagine, that didn’t last long. As soon as we met the barbers we all looked the same – kind of how I look now! It’s kind of funny as the dark haired one (named Keller) could play a guitar and sing and soon he became a big hit with almost everyone in the platoon, including our Platoon Sergeant.

Just some memories from a time long ago.
Keith Pladson (66)

Keith, I was stationed permanent party at Fort Leonard Wood in 1968-69

My military record.
 
June 1968 – August 1968 – Fort Lewis, Washington – Basic Training
August 1968 – November 1968 – Fort Sam Houston, Texas – Advanced Individual Training (AIT)
November 1968 – July 1969 – Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri – Permanent Party
July 1969 – July 1970 – Vietnam
July 1970 – June 1971 – Fort Riley, Kansas – Permanent Party
June 1971 – October 1996 – 6255 Dental Reserve unit – Tacoma/Fort Lewis, Washington.
October 1996- July 2007 – Retired Reserves (Gray area)
July 21, 2007 – for the rest of my life – Retired United States Army.
 
My Civilian work record
 
June 1965 – October 1966 – Farm Hand – Dave & Vivian Clark – Bottineau
October 1966 – November 1966 – Went to Washington state to move my Grandmother back to Bottineau
November 1966 – January 1967 – Worked on a Christmas tree farm in Bremerton, WA.
January 1967 – February 1967 – Bangor Washington – Loaded Ammunition on ships headed for Vietnam
February – 1967 – June 1968 – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – Apprentice in the Pipe Shop as a Pipe Coverer and Insulator.
June 1968 – June 1971 – United States Army.
June 1971 – February 1974 – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – continued and completed my Apprenticeship.
June 1974 – June 1976 – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – Journeyman Pipe coverer and Insulator
June 1976 November 1978 – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – Asbestos control instructor
November 1978 – December 2003 – Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – Production Scheduler/Supervisor in the planning department.
December 2003 – to present – Retired in the Philippines.
 
That folks is a quick snap shop of my life history. I had a good career. I was very fortunate being able to have landed an apprenticeship job at the shipyard. I got paid while going to school. The shipyard trained their own. Gary