View the online memorial here<\/a>.<\/p>\nIlene Julia Kjelland was born December 31, 1928 in Valley City, ND to Walter and Neva (Dahl) Zaun.<\/p>\n
She grew up on a farm near Rogers, ND and dearly loved working with her dad doing chores and field work.<\/p>\n
Ilene, along with the other Zaun clan, spent time at Gramma Annie (Fiske) and Grandpa Arnold Zaun’s farm.<\/p>\n
Oh, what fun it was, playing with all those cousins!<\/p>\n
She also spent time with her Grampa Invald and Gramma Julia Dahl who lived in Jamestown, ND.<\/p>\n
On June 15, 1947, she married Selmer “Sam” Kjelland.<\/p>\n
Sam was the son of Lewis and Gina (Borg) Kjelland.<\/p>\n
Their first child, Martee, was born the following year.<\/p>\n
Ilene’s father died of cancer when Martee was less than a year old. That was a devastating time in her life. Their second child, Michael was born two years later.<\/p>\n
Sam and Ilene bought a little house on Riverview Drive in 1951.<\/p>\n
They both worked at Lutheran Hospital and Homes (now the Sheyenne Care Center). Ilene worked as a physical therapist aide and nurse’s aide for nineteen years.<\/p>\n
She then watched the small children of many families for several years.<\/p>\n
They were members of Nebo Lutheran Church where she sang in the choir, taught preschool Sunday School and other positions. Her children were baptized, confirmed, and married in that church.<\/p>\n
She and Sam joined Grace Free when Nebo merged with First Lutheran.<\/p>\n
Her daughter married Joseph J. Lunde.<\/p>\n
They had four children:<\/p>\n
Christopher, Leah, Todd and Evan James.<\/p>\n
Her son married Janelle “Jan” Komrosky.<\/p>\n
They had three children:<\/p>\n
Michael Edward, Chad, and Andrea.<\/p>\n
Ilene and Sam spent many happy times with all their grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Ilene was always a care-giving person.<\/p>\n
She took care of Sam until Alzheimer’s took his ability to walk.<\/p>\n
There was always a cup of hot coffee and a treat for anyone and everyone who stopped by. She was a great cook, baker and immaculate housekeeper.<\/p>\n
She was a very independent woman.<\/p>\n
She sold her home she had lived in for 60 years and moved to Bridgeview in 2012.<\/p>\n
She made many friendships there, particularly with staff.<\/p>\n
She loved every one of them!!<\/p>\n
They took very good care of her.<\/p>\n
She was independent to the very end of her earthly stay.<\/p>\n
Ilene is now in her eternal home with loved ones she longed to see.<\/p>\n
She passed away at her home on September 2, 2018.<\/p>\n
Ilene is survived by her daughter, Martee (Joe) Lunde; son, Mike (Jan) Kjelland; grandchildren, Christopher (Annette) Lunde, Leah Radke, Todd Lunde, Michael E. (Aly) Kjelland, Chad (Tiffany) Kjelland, Andrea “Annie” (Adam) Johnson; greatgrandchildren, Jessica, Michael, Adam, Frida, Jacee, Jadyn, Alexa, Jayden, Skyler, Samuel, Olivia, Levi, and Ella Jo; and her sister, Marilyn Kerbaugh.<\/p>\n
She was preceded in death by her parents; step-father, Ed Maresh; husband, Sam; and grandson, Evan James.<\/p>\n
God bless her memory.<\/p>\n
The memorial service for Ilene Kjelland, 89, Valley City, ND will be at Grace Free Lutheran Church, Valley City on Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 2:30 PM.<\/p>\n
Visitation will be held an hour prior to the service.<\/p>\n
The Lerud-Schuldt-Mathias Funeral Home in assisting Ilene’s family with arrangements.<\/p>\n
An online guestbook is available at lerudschuldt.com<\/p>\n
Visit LERUD-SCHULDT-MATHIAS FUNERAL HOME<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In memoriam of Ilene Kjelland, 12\/31\/1928 – 09\/06\/2018 View the online memorial here. Ilene Julia Kjelland was born December 31, 1928 in Valley City, ND to Walter and Neva (Dahl) Zaun. She grew up on a farm near Rogers, ND and dearly loved working with her dad doing chores and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152891","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=152891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152894,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152891\/revisions\/152894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}