{"id":218262,"date":"2021-02-01T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=218262"},"modified":"2021-02-12T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:18:08","slug":"gary-sorensen-jan-29-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=218262","title":{"rendered":"Gary Sorensen &#8211; Jan. 29, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"parallax\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<article class=\"obituary\">\n<section id=\"obit-text\" class=\"obit-text text-fade\">Gary Sorensen, age 78, of Valley City, ND, died Friday, January 29<sup>th<\/sup> at Banner Baywood Medical Center in Mesa, AZ.\u00a0 A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, February 20<sup>th<\/sup> at Grace Free Lutheran Church in Valley City.\u00a0 Visitation will be held on Friday, February 19<sup>th<\/sup> from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM at Grace Free Lutheran Church.\u00a0 A prayer service will be held at 7:00 PM Friday evening at the church.\u00a0 Due to COVID 19, ND State Department of Health Guidelines will be followed and masks will be suggested to be worn.\u00a0 Inurnment will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery near Valley City in the spring.Gary Allen Sorensen, the son of Anton and Mary (Johnson) Sorensen, was born September 5, 1942 in Valley City, ND.\u00a0 Gary grew up and attended school in Valley City and Graduated from Valley City High School in 1960.\u00a0 During High School and after his graduation, he worked for Byron Berge doing construction work.\u00a0 On September 16, 1961 he married Evelyne \u201cEvie\u201d Carico in Pillsbury, ND.\u00a0 The couple lived in Valley City and had three children, Douglas, Wendy and Terry.\u00a0 In 1972, Gary started his own business, Sorensen Construction where he worked until his retirement in 2007.\u00a0 Gary was a very active member of Grace Free Lutheran Church in Valley City and Calvary Free Lutheran Church in Mesa, AZ.\u00a0 He enjoyed participating in Saturday Morning \u00a0prayer groups at both congregations.\u00a0 Gary enjoyed working in his workshop, camping, going on ATV rides in the Desert of Arizona with Evie and friends, visiting with residents at the Sheyenne Care Center and spending time with his family.<\/p>\n<p>Gary is survived by his wife Evie, Valley City, ND; his three children, Douglas (Nancy) Sorensen, Wendy Sorensen and Terry Sorensen, all Valley City, ND; four grandchildren, Megan Sorensen, Shantell and Macy Schlaht and Hannah Sorensen; one great-grandson, NJ Navarro; numerous nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Gary was preceded in death by his parents, Anton and Mary, four brothers, Lyle, Merrit, Mylo and Darwin; two sisters, Vivian Welken and LaVetta Anderson.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Sorensen, age 78, of Valley City, ND, died Friday, January 29th at Banner Baywood Medical Center in Mesa, AZ.\u00a0 A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, February 20th at Grace Free Lutheran Church in Valley City.\u00a0 Visitation will be held on Friday, February 19th from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218262","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\/218262","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=218262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219080,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218262\/revisions\/219080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}