| Summary: | LEISTIKOW, ART AND DOROTHY Art, son of Herman and Hulda Leistikow, and Dorothy Korn were born and grew up near Marion. They were married May 20, 1940 and lived in Marion the first year. In the fall of 1942 they moved to a farm southeast of Marion owned by Fred Bruschwein. Two sons, Keith and Daryl were born while the family farmed there. Oct. 1947 Art purchased a farm southwest of Marion from Harry Blecker, and they moved to what is now their present home. Six years later a daughter, Sheri, came to make the family complete. Keith is married to Karen Neevel, daughter of Leonard and Eloise. They have a daughter, Kristl, and reside on their farm northeast of Marion. Daryl farms in the vicinity and Sheri is a student at State School of Science at Wahpeton, N. Dak. Art has been a rural substitute mail carrier since 1938 when Mr. Francis Manbeck was the regular carrier for route 2 out of Marion. At the present time Art is substitute for Vernon Jorve. Mr. and Mrs. Leistikow and family are members of the United Methodist Church of Marion. LEISTIKOW, HERMAN AND HULDA Herman was born in Germany April 3, 1876 and came to America in 1890. He came to Marion in 1905 (from Kensal, where he had been employed in a meat market) to build his own business. The Pioneer Meat Market. The buildings, one with living quarters upstairs, and the slaughterhouse were built by Mr. Dolin. January 3, 1907 he married Hulda, daughter of John and Christina Bruschwein, who was born in LaMoure County, April 18, 1884. Their children are: Ethel (deceased 1926), Alice (Mrs. Edwin Kallander), Velva (Mrs. Donald Korn), Arthur (Dorothy Kom), Beatrice (Mrs. Earl Bronson), Beverly (Mrs. Torbjorn Nyland), and Mavis (Mrs. Roger Goldsmith). Herman died in 1942, and Hulda in 1969. LENGKEEK, WILLIAM AND ALICE William Lengkeek was born in Rock Valley, Iowa. When a boy, he went with his parents to Volga, S.D., where they farmed until 1916. They then moved to Montpelier, N.D. Here he helped his father with the farming. In 1920 he was married to Alice Duven, who was born in Lindsey, Wis., and came to North Dakota in 1906. They were married at the Duven home north of Marion. They started farming 8 miles east of Montpelier, later moving to his father's farm, which they eventually bought in the Montpelier vicinity. They have two children: Myra Lengkeek Spilde of Ypsilanti and Arthur, now of Albany, Oregon. They retired from farming and moved to Marion in 1961. LERE, LOUIS AND MARIE Louis was born to Peder and Kjersti Lere in Gladstone Township. He married Marie Sandness, daughter of Olai and Gina Sandness, in 1916. They had ten children: Mildred (Mrs. Alvin Houge), Kathryn (Mrs. Algeo Norberg), Orville married Marcia Johns of Minneapolis and they live on and farm the home place. Florence, who taught school for five years in Marion during the 50's, and now teaches in Pipestone, Minn. Leonard married Doris Walterson. Glenn married Ruth Jacobs. Alice (Mrs. R. Page Shaw), Muriel and Roland live on the home farm with their mother, Marie. Lowell married Gloria Otteson. Louis died in 1960. LERE, PEDER AND KJERSTI Peder and Kjersti Lere homesteaded in Gladstone Township, about eleven miles S.E. of Marion in 1889. They came from Norway in 1887 with their three children: Anna (Mrs. Tom Torgerson), Randi (Mrs. Anton Anderson), and Peder. They lived in Cass County the first year ancj Emil was born there. Then over the years six more children were born to them: Louis, Hans, Carl, Art, Martin, and Mabel (Mrs. Garfield Anderson). Peder was a shoe maker and tailor by trade from Norway, but learned to farm when they settled here. LESTER, FRANK AND MATTIE Frank was born in 1,863 in Prince Edward, Canada. He came to Dakota Territory in 1884 and homesteaded in Grandview Township, ten miles southwest of Marion. He was married to Mattie Ravely of Edgeley in 1896, and they became the parents of one son Harold. They moved into Marion in 1916 where they operated the Commercial Hotel and Mr. Lester was a Standard Oil bulk agent. They moved to Washington in 1921 and purchased an apple ranch, for many years they sent apples to the various Sunday Schools in Marion at Christmas time. Frank died in 1937 and Mattie lived with their son thereafter. LIEBING, ARTHUR AND BEATRICE Arthur was born January 23, 1904 to Joseph and Ella (Trapp) Liebing at Milbank, South Dakota. Beatrice was born December 27, 1906 to Bernard and Marie (Stelsel) Duvan, near the Lutheran Church at Griswold, North Dakota. They were married October 6, 1927 at her parents home and moved to the farm then known as the Ernie Trapp farm, five miles south of Marion, in the fall of 1934 they moved to the Duven farm north of Marion, where they have resided since, except for a few winter months spent on the West Coast the past six years. To this union four children were born: Luella, born December 9, 1928. On February 1, 1951 she married Wesley TenPas of Litchville and they live on a farm north of Litchville. They have three children, Duane, Sandra, and Connie. Donald, born November 25, 1930. He married Myrtle Verduin of Hastings, North Dakota, December 14, 1951. He is a trucker and they live at Marion. They have four children, Roger, Thomas, Karen, and Steven. Beth, born November 6, 1937. June 10, 1967 she married Dennis Johnson of Milford, Iowa. They now reside at Vermillion, South Dakota, where he is a Prof, of Economics at the University. They have two boys, Russell and Darrin. Myma, born November 15, 1940. She is married to Darrell Hill of Oakes, North Dakota, June 10, 1960. They have five children, Cynthia, Michael, Matthew, Melody, and Jeremy. They live on a farm one mile west of Oakes. He is a contractor. LIEBING. DONALD AND MYRTLE Donald Liebing was born on the family farm south of Marion, to Arthur and Beatrice (Duven) Liebing. As a small boy he moved with his family to the Duven family farm in Greenland Township. Don attended Greenland Consolidated grade school and graduated from Marion High School. Thereafter he joined Trapp Implement as their shop foreman. On December 14, 1951 he married 93 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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