{"id":217313,"date":"2021-01-19T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=217313"},"modified":"2021-01-19T15:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T21:17:48","slug":"irma-mae-swartout-ness-jan-18-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=217313","title":{"rendered":"Irma Mae (Swartout) Ness – Jan 18, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Irma Mae (Swartout) Ness of Valley City, ND, age 94, died of natural causes in her son\u2019s home in Woodbury, MN on January 18, 2021.\u00a0 She was born April 9, 1926 in Sanborn, ND to Earl and Nina Swartout.\u00a0 Irma graduated from Valley City State Teacher\u2019s College with a degree in Education and taught high school for 44 years in many communities including, Valley City, Wheatland, Sharon, Tower City, Eckelson, Luverne, Hope, Hannaford, Tappen, Gackle, Sykeston, and Souris.\u00a0 During her career, she taught Home Economics, English, Chemistry, and Physical Education.\u00a0 She also was director for high school plays, cheerleading, lunch programs, annual staff, school paper staff, and sports concessions.\u00a0 After retiring from teaching, Irma started a second career working at the Valley City Barnes County Public Library for more 25 years where she retired at the age of 91.<\/p>\n

Irma was a member of the Congregational United Church in Valley City ND, served on the Valley City State College Library Board, and was a member of the ND Retired Teachers Association.\u00a0 She received the Retired Teacher\u2019s Silver Apple Award for dedication and service to the Retired Teachers Association.\u00a0 She enjoyed cooking and many of her recipes can be found in local fundraising cookbooks.\u00a0 She also enjoyed crocheting, knitting, quilting, and embroidery.\u00a0 But perhaps most of all she was involved in sports her entire life.\u00a0 Her late husband Robert Ness, Sr. coached girls\u2019\/boys\u2019 basketball and football and she kept the books for every game and supervised the cheerleaders.\u00a0 Even at 94, she would always have a game on her TV.<\/p>\n

Irma is survived by her son Robert, Jr., (Sumitra); granddaughter, Samantha; sister, Vera Aalgaard and several nieces and nephews.\u00a0 She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Robert Ness Sr.; sister, Fae; brothers, Sherwin and Quinn; and grandson, Michael.<\/p>\n

Arrangements are being handled by Lerud Mathias Funeral Home, 515 Central Ave N, Valley City ND 58072. (701) 845-3232. \u00a0An online guestbook and tribute page can be found on their website, www.lerudschuldt.com<\/a><\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers or memorials, Irma\u2019s family requests donations to the Valley City Barnes County Public Library at https:\/\/vcbclibrary.org\/how-to-help\/donate.html<\/a> or Valley City Barnes County Public Library, 410 North Central Ave, Valley City, ND 58072 or the Congregational United Church, 217 4th<\/sup> St. NW, Valley City ND. 58072.\u00a0 The family does not want to put family and friends at risk of COVID 19, so services will be delayed until spring.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irma Mae (Swartout) Ness of Valley City, ND, age 94, died of natural causes in her son\u2019s home in Woodbury, MN on January 18, 2021.\u00a0 She was born April 9, 1926 in Sanborn, ND to Earl and Nina Swartout.\u00a0 Irma graduated from Valley City State Teacher\u2019s College with a degree […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217313","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\/217313","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=217313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217316,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217313\/revisions\/217316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}