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HERBERT WOLF

BEULAH---Herbert Jacob Wolf, 95, Beulah, died Oct. 2, 2002, at the Beulah Care Center. Services will be held at 10 a.m. MDT today at Zion Lutheran Church, Beulah, with the Rev. Kris Nyman officiating. Burial will be in Beulah City Cemetery.

Herbert was born Nov. 24, 1906, near Hazen, a son of Jacob and Katrina (Morast) Wolf.  Herb grew up on his parents farm north of Hazen, where he enjoyed working with horses. In the summer time, he loved to swim in the creek behind the barn and skate on it in the winter.  These two sports he passed on to his children.

Herbert married Lydia Miller on Jan. 3, 1929, at Krem. They farmed north of Hazen from 1929 to 1934. In 1934, they moved to Fort Peck, Mont., where Herb was employed in the construction of the dam. In 1937 they moved to Beulah, where Herb was employed driving a dray wagon, hauling ash. In 1939, he was hired by the MDU electric generating plant in Beulah. He was employed there until his retirement in 1971 at the age of 65.

Herb was an IBEW Union member for 60 years. He loved to golf and did so up to the age of 93. Herb enjoyed woodworking and built many family treasures including doll houses, play barns and rocking horses.  He was also the community handyman. For Herb’s 75th birthday, he received a pool table and challenged all, especially his grandchildren and great-grandchildren to a game of cut throat or 8-ball.

He was a loving father and grandfather and the family will miss Herb and Lydia at their many family gatherings.

He is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Geneis and Ruben Brunmeier, Mesa, Ariz., Audrey and Herbert Sasse, Miles City, Mont., and Carrie and Myron Hafner, Beulah; one son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Jan Wolf, Billings, Mont.; 12 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; five great great-grandchildren; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Johnny and Martha, Circle, Mont., Ted and Luella, Hazen; and two sisters-in-law, Josephine Wolf, Oregon, and Esther Wolf, Hazen.

Herb was preceded in death by his wife of 71 years, Lydia, on Dec. 2, 2000; one son, Garvin; his parents; seven brothers, Emanuel, Robert, Otto, Tobias, Martin, Ernest, and Harold; three sisters, Amalia, Ida and Elsie; and one great grandchild, Breanna Nichole Gruba.

Memorials are preferred to the Knife River Care Center or Sakakawea Hospice. (Seibel Funeral Home, Beulah)

~Source: Unknown North Dakota newspaper, October 2002