Mavis Weispfenning, Bismarck, ND died February 11, 2019 at Sanford Medical Center at the age of 89.

Mavis Phyllis Eisenbeis was born March 13, 1929 on a farm northwest of Fredonia to Reinhold and Hulda (Krueger) Eisenbeis, the second oldest of six daughters, and baptized Lutheran. She attended elementary school through the eighth grade, first at Nathan School District #1 and then at Haag School District #4. She was confirmed in Martin Luther Lutheran Church in Fredonia on April 2, 1944 by Rev. John Bunge. She expressed few regrets in her life other than that she was unable to continue school after the eighth grade, when she went to work for various neighboring farmers to do house work and general farm labor. She grew to womanhood on the farm, spending most of her time helping her dad on the farm, as she had no brothers.

Mavis married Ted Weispfenning on November 28, 1948 in Fredonia at Martin Luther with Rev. Bunge officiating. They built a new, three-room house on the Weispfenning homestead three miles north of Fredonia and farmed with Ted’s father Christ and mother Louisa. A son Jeff was born in 1950 and another son Barry was born in 1953. Mavis and Ted maintained a grain and dairy farm, building a small herd of purebred and grade Brown Swiss dairy cows. After Ted’s death on December 12, 1996, Mavis purchased a home in Kulm in 1997. On October 8, 2018, she moved to Prairie Pointe, an assisted living facility in Bismarck, where she resided at the time of her death.

Surviving are her children Jeff and Linda, Bismarck, and their daughter Nikki (Tom Kaczynski), Minneapolis, MN; and Barry and Terri in Minnetonka, MN and their children Robert, Plymouth, MN, and Mara, Seattle, WA. She is also survived by her sisters Shirley (Ardell) Wolf, Clinton, IA and Karen (Allan) Redell, Pasco, WA. She was preceded in death by her parents, and three sisters: Alva (LeRoy) Pfeifle, Clinton, IA, Joyce (Cliff) Weispfenning, Clinton, IA and Jan (Chuck) Hall, Pasco, WA.

Memorial Service and interment will take place in summer.

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