Oliver Hersel

Oliver Hersel[1]

Male 1915 - 2001  (86 years)
Person ID: I4219  "Gjerde/Monsen"  |  Last Modified: 5 Apr 2021


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  • Name Oliver Hersel 
    Gender Male 
    Birth 15 Jun 1915  North Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 28 Sep 2001  Tioga, Williams County, North Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried United Cemetery, Tioga, Williams County, North Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Oliver Hersel
    Joanna & Oliver Hersel
  • Parents

    Family ID: F932 -:|:-  Group Sheet  -:|:-  Family Chart  
    Father Ole Jacobsen Hersel (ID:I3074)
              b. 19 Jun 1872  
              d. 1940, Tioga, Williams County, North Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Inga Amalie Hansdatter Skiri (ID:I3081)
              b. 25 Apr 1890  
              d. 26 Jan 1982 (Age 91 years) 
    Marriage 17 Oct 1911  Kors Kirke, Monge, Marstein, Rauma, Møre og Romsdal, Norge Find all individuals with events at this location 
  • Family

    Family ID: F1306   -:|:-   Group Sheet   -:|:-   Family Chart  -:|:-  Last Modified : 5 Apr 2021   
    Wife Joanna Bekkedal (ID:I4225)
              b. 16 Jul 1923, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 19 Jul 2011, Tioga, Williams County, North Dakota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Marriage 1 Jan 1954  St Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    + 1. Living (ID:I4226)
      2. Living (ID:I4227)
      3. Living (ID:I4228)
    + 4. Living (ID:I4229)
  • Other Personal Events

    Siblings 4 brothers and 2 sisters 
  • Event Map

    Link to Google MapsBirth - 15 Jun 1915 - North Dakota, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1 Jan 1954 - St Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 28 Sep 2001 - Tioga, Williams County, North Dakota, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - United Cemetery, Tioga, Williams County, North Dakota, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Source Citations

    1. [S14] Other Sites, https://www.willistonherald.com/obituaries/oliver-hersel/article_13a57c4e-ce77-54be-aa0f-379a91c6b648.html.
      TIOGA, N.D. - Oliver Hersel, 86, of Tioga, passed away Friday, Sept. 28, 2001, at the Mountrail Bethel Home in Stanley.

      Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 2, at the First Lutheran Church in Tioga. Pastor Chris Montgomery will officiate and interment will follow at the United Cemetery in Tioga.

      Oliver was born on June 5, 1915, to Ole and Inga (Skiri) Hersel on the Hersel homestead, southeast of Tioga in Pleasant Valley Township, Williams County. He attended rural school at the Nylander School. As a young man, he worked on the farm with his two brothers and father. He also occasionally worked for other farmers.

      Following the death of his father in 1940, Oliver and his brother, Alvin, took over the family farm, raising grains and beef cattle. After Alvin's death in 1985, Oliver continued to farm until 1997. His sons, Jon and Dean, continue to operate the farm. Oliver also drove school bus for the Tioga School District for more than 21 years.

      On Jan. l, 1954, Oliver was united in marriage with Joanna Bekkedal at St. Paul, Minn. They lived in Tioga these succeeding years until Oliver entered the Mountrail Bethel Home in Stanley in November 2000.

      Oliver enjoyed boxing, horses, farming and watching the horses pastured at the farm.

      He is survived by his wife, Joanna of Tioga; two sons: Dean, his special friend, Patty Lux, and daughter, Samantha; and Jon, his wife, Paulette, and their daughters, Alissa, Kylie and Chelsea, all of Tioga; two daughters: Kristine Polsfut and her husband, Arlin, of Mandan and Anne Hersel of Helena, Mont.; two brothers, Edwin Hersel and his wife, Martha, of Billings, Mont., and Elwood Hersel and his wife, Betty, of Emmett, Idaho; two sisters, Gladys Quale and her husband, Albert, of Williston and Clara Odegaard of Kirkland, Wash.; numerous nieces and nephews, with special mention of Bernice Gotta of Bellevue, Wash., who lived with Oliver and Joanna during her senior year of high school and also, LeAnn Hersel who spent many days with Oliver and his family.

      He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Joseph and Alvin.

      Friends may call until 7 p.m. today from 10 a.m. until noon Tuesday at the Fulkerson Funeral Home in Tioga and for an hour before services Tuesday at the church.
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