| Summary: | Myrtle Verduin of Hastings, North Dakota, the daughter of Henry and Ralphine (Kluvers) Verduin and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Verduin, Sr., who came to the Marion community in 1905. The land is now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Trapp. Previous to their marriage, Myrt had taken a business course at Jamestown College and worked in the offices of Nash-Finch Grocery Co. in Jamestown. January, 1952, Don left to serve his country in the Korean Conflict, spending 16 months in Korea. While he was overseas, son Roger was born, Feb. 11, 1953. Upon his return home, they moved to Marion and opened a small service station in the building next to the present fire hall. They joined the E. U. B. Church, where they remain active members. October 8, 1954 Thomas joined the family. A little later Don sold out his service station and went back to work for his former employer, Myles Trapp. With a family of 2 lively boys it seemed sensible to move out of town, so purchased the buildings and 40 acres just west of Marion from Nick Lutgen's, where they now live. January 1, 1959, Don bought Walter Piehl's trucking business, the same month the family welcomed a daughter, Karen. The fourth child, Steven, was born May 25, 1960. The family has worked hard to build the business, expanding to hauling grain long and short distances as well as feeding cattle and doing much of their own repair work. At the present time Roger is a dry-wall finisher at Oakes, N. Dak., after brief sessions at Devils Lake Jr. College and Nazarene Bible College in Colorado Springs, Colo. Tom in engaged in the family trucking and cattle business, having attended a short course at Wahpeton State School of Science. Karen and Steve are students at Marion High School. "It is a privelege to work and raise a family in this little community which our grandparents chose." LIEBING, JOE Mr. and Mrs. Liebing and their children. Pearl and Arthur moved from Milbank, S.D. to Marion in the fall of 1906. They located on a farm four miles S.E. of town. Here their daughter, Norma, was born in 1912. In the spring of 1913 they moved to a farm at Verona and lived there for several years. The next year they traded farms with John Trapp and lived there for many years. Alvin was born there. Mrs. Liebing died in 1921, Alvin was cared for by the Ernie Trapp family for a while since he was only 5. The farm was turned over to Pearl and her husband in 1937, and Mr. Liebing took Norma and Alvin west to visit relatives. He married Rosa Hager in 1938. Alvin was married in 1939 and farmed the home farm until 1945 when he sold out and returned to Washington. Their children are Pearl, Mrs. Kiefert; Arthur, Marion, N.D.; Norma, Mrs. Eldred Ellis; and Alvin. LIEPOLD, KARL AND ANNA Karl was born in Moravia, Austria, in 1855. He married Anna Steidl, who was born at Friedenhof in the Margravia of Moravia, now Czechoslovakia, on March 9, 1856. She also received her common school education here. She was the eldest of 9 children. She came to the U.S. with her parents in the spring of 1872. They lived a few months near Watertown, Wise, then on to Mitchell co., Iowa in August of the same year. The parents worked a farm on shares for 3 years then bought one near Nora Springs, Iowa. In the spring of 1875 Anna married Karl Liepold and lived on a farm for 15 years in Nora Springs. They arrived at Dickey in March of 1900 and had to haul their machinery and household goods from there to their farm 7 miles S.E. of Marion. There we're very few farms between their place and LaMoure. The only roads were trails across the prairie. The boys helped with the farm until 1906 when Henry and Fred moved to Canada, where they lived the rest of their life. In the fall of 1918 they retired and built a home in Marion, where George Blake now lives. They lived the remainder of their lives there. Anna passed away March 9, 1923 and Karl passed away July 14,1928. They are both buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Marion. They had one daughter and four sons. The eldest, Mary, married Emil Keller and lived in Marion until her death in 1944. Ed went to Canada in 1910 to homestead, but returned in 1913 and farmed. In 1922 he moved to Verona, N. Dak., where he farmed a few years. In 1916 he married Ruth Wilson of Verona. They moved to Canada and are still there. They have 5 sons: Victor and John, in Portland, Ore., and Carl, George, and Ralph, in Canada. George, the youngest, stayed on the home place after serving in the World War. In 1950 he bought some acreage in Park Rapids, Minn. He passed away in 1956. He was buried in the Marion Cemetery. LILLEHOFF, A. E. AND MARIE Andrew Lillehoff was born in Norway, August 4, 1865. He came to the United States in July 1885 and worked on a tobacco farm for two years in Wisconsin. In 1887 he came to Valley City, N.D. As a salesman, he worked for the Deering Co., selling some of the first binders. He also worked with a contractor as a mason, putting in foundations for some of the first buildings in that city. In 1883 he filed a homestead, which is now southwest quarter. Sec. 28, in Greenland Township. In 1903 he returned to Norway for a visit and in March 1904 he came back bringing Marie Stromsrude, his bride to be. They were married on July 17, 1904, at Valley City, N.D. They were parents of 14 children. The Lillehoffs were active members of the Marion Lutheran Church since its beginning. Mr. Lillehoff passed away Feb. 2, 1927. His wife and children lived on the farm until 1943 when they moved to Marion. Mrs. Lillehoff boarded school children for a few years. Then she rented her house out while she worked for Lars Seglems the next twenty years. Ill health made it impossible to continue and she passed away Dec 5, 1968. Their children are: Thorvald, police officer and carpenter, married Grace Zimmerman, Delavann, Wis., passed away June 30, 1971; Anna, Mrs. Ernest Kaas, Jamestown, N.D., two boys, Glenn and Ernest, passed away May 1, 1971; Alfred, married Geraldine Camp, worked as a mechanic in Niagara, N.Y., died July 7, 1940; Edvin, married Lucille Schommer, two children, passed away Dec. 24, 1973; George, married Regina Sarbaum, 3 children, Tom, Loreen, Mrs. Paul Regan, and Curtis, lives on a farm near Marion; Minnie, Mrs. Antony Sarbaum, two children; Clara, deceased, Sept. 10, 1942; Edna, Mrs. Henry Schaefer, Weiser, Idaho, 3 sons, Donald, Russel and James; Elmer, deceased; Henry, married Dorothy Marcquitz, 4 children, Diane, Cheryl, Linda and Craig; Elma, Mrs. Ralph Hallen, Silver Springs, Md., 3 children, John, Janet and Ingrid; Lillian, Mrs. Dave Kezarin, San Pablo, Calif.; Alice, Mrs. 94 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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