Darrel “Tucker” Wavra, 85, of Valley City, ND died August 19, 2017 at the Sheyenne Care Center in Valley City.<\/p>\n
A funeral mass for him will be celebrated Wednesday, August 23 at 2:00 PM.<\/p>\n
Visitation will be in the Lerud-Schuldt-Mathias Funeral Home chapel on Tuesday from 5-7 PM.<\/p>\n
The Rosary will be prayed beginning at 6:30 followed by a prayer service at 7:00.<\/p>\n
Tucker will be buried at the North Dakota Veteran’s Cemetery in Mandan, ND on Thursday, August 24 at 1:00 PM.<\/p>\n
Darrel Thomas Wavra was born December 5, 1931 in Alice, ND, to Edward and Sadie (Wellington) Wavra.<\/p>\n
Tucker graduated from Enderlin High School, completed his Bachelors Degree in Education at Valley City State College and received his Masters Degree from North Dakota State University.<\/p>\n
He served in the US Navy from 1952-1956 as a flight engineer.<\/p>\n
He was Past Commander of the Valley City VFW Post 2764.<\/p>\n
On August 9, 1961, he married Marion Leah Gessner in Leeds, ND.<\/p>\n
Tucker taught high school in Kathryn, ND and then became school superintendent in Ayr, ND.<\/p>\n
In 1967, he accepted a position with American National Bank (which is now Wells Fargo) in Valley City, and worked there until retiring.<\/p>\n
Tucker loved spending time with his family, sports and hunting.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his loving wife, Leah of Valley City; son, Greg (Lauri) Wavra and their children, Harper and Christian of Bismarck, ND; and daughter, Jennifer (Jim) Reich and their children, Michelle and Thomas of Tulsa, OK.<\/p>\n
Tucker was preceded in death by his parents and grandson, Kent.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to a charity of your choice.<\/p>\n
Funeral arrangements for Tucker are in the care of Lerud-Schuldt-Mathias Funeral Home, Valley City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Darrel “Tucker” Wavra, 85, of Valley City, ND died August 19, 2017 at the Sheyenne Care Center in Valley City. A funeral mass for him will be celebrated Wednesday, August 23 at 2:00 PM. Visitation will be in the Lerud-Schuldt-Mathias Funeral Home chapel on Tuesday from 5-7 PM. The Rosary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127520,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127519\/revisions\/127520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}