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Burial: Sunset Memorial Gardens Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, USA
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The Bismarck Tribune, ND, December 28, 1997
Lydia Ketterling, 82, Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center, died Dec. 25, 1997, in a Bismarck hospital. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Faith Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Joel Sherer officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Bismarck. Visitation will be 1-8 p.m. today at Perry Funeral Home, Mandan, and for one hour prior to services at the church.
Lydia was born Feb. 17, 1915, at Gackle to John and Paulina (Remboldt) Rivinius. She was raised near Gackle and attended country schools. As a young woman, she moved to Elgin and worked in her uncle's grocery store. There she met Alvin "Slim" Ketterling and they were married July 12, 1942. They lived in Forsyth, Mont., Bismarck, Gackle, Mandan, and in 1950, they settled in Bismarck. She worked for Super Valu Stores for 15 years.
She loved children and baby sat children at her home with many calling her ""Grandma.'' Slim died in 1987, and she moved to the care center in 1993. She loved to cook, camp, play cards and do crafts.
She is survived by two daughters, Karen K. Engel, Phoenix, and Jolene J. Ketterling, Bismarck; two sisters, Freida Rivinius, Gackle, and Ida Goodwin, Minneapolis; one grandson, Brent A. Engel, Los Angeles; two great-grandsons, Timothy and Tyler; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one son-in-law, Gene R. Engel; three brothers, Conrad, Rueben and Lenhardt; and four sisters, Rose, Katie, Tilli, and Bertha. (Perry Funeral Home, Mandan)
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