{"id":181851,"date":"2019-10-07T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=181851"},"modified":"2019-10-07T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T23:00:13","slug":"berdean-turtle-thorsness-oct-6-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=181851","title":{"rendered":"Berdean \u201cTurtle\u201d Thorsness – Oct 6, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Berdean Thorsness, 73, Tappen, ND passed away at his family farm on October 6, 2019. The funeral service will be held at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at St. James Basilica in Jamestown with family receiving friends from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.Berdean Dennis Thorsness was born on June 14, 1946 to Sidney and Rose (Cullen) Thorsness.\u00a0 He grew up on the family farm raising cattle, pigs and milking cows. He graduated from Tappen High School and continued farming with his dad.Berdean married Darlene Bodvig on July 27, 1968 at St. Paul\u2019s Catholic Church in Tappen ND.\u00a0 Ironically, 4 years before their marriage Berdean had given Darlene a senior picture of himself and wrote on the back \u201cBest of luck with whoever it may be\u201d. Little did he know that he would be the lucky one. They lived on the family farm and later purchased it in 2000. Berdean earned his nickname \u201cTurtle\u201d as he had a tendency to always be late.\u00a0 In fact, a number of people didn\u2019t know his true name.In his younger years; Berdean enjoyed driving in demolition derbies and horseback riding.\u00a0 When his boys decided to fix up derby cars, he was right there giving them instructions even though they didn\u2019t always want to listen. Berdean also enjoyed hunting, fishing and the yearly family lake trip which always included his beloved fireworks.<\/p>\n

Anyone who knew Berdean knew he loved to talk and was a great story teller and he enjoyed talking on the phone.<\/p>\n

Berdean is survived by his wife Darlene; his children Tammy (Alan) Andres, Woodworth ND; Thad (Jan Thompson) Thorsness, Hawley MN; Brent (Dawn) Thorsness, Fargo ND;\u00a0 Dana Schrader, Walcott\u00a0 ND and Kelly (Brandon Addams) Thorsness, Bismarck ND; 5 granddaughters and their families Brooke Thorsness, Ashlyn Thorsness,\u00a0 Kayla (Linda) Grizzle, Tara, Landon; Marissa (James) Hogness, Brianna Schrader (Joe Sayler), Bentlee, Serenitee, Sydnee;\u00a0 siblings Roger (Stephany) Thorsness, Margaret Darnell, Ronda Thorsness, Valerie Vogel, Linnae (Tom) Thompson, Kevin (Marcia McMullen) Thorsness; brother-in-law Marvin (Violet) Bodvig, sister-in-law Sharon (Jerry) DeWitz and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n

He was preceded in death by his parents, mother-in-law Lucille<\/p>\n

Bowerman, father-in-law Galen Bowerman and nephew, Bryan Ehmann.<\/p>\n

Arrangements with Eddy Funeral Home.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Berdean Thorsness, 73, Tappen, ND passed away at his family farm on October 6, 2019. The funeral service will be held at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at St. James Basilica in Jamestown with family receiving friends from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.Berdean Dennis Thorsness was born on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181851","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\/181851","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=181851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181881,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181851\/revisions\/181881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}