{"id":245037,"date":"2022-03-07T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=245037"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:17:18","slug":"duane-hesch-friday-march-4-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=245037","title":{"rendered":"Duane Hesch &#8211; Friday March 4, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"panel panel-obit obituary\">\n<section id=\"obit-text\" class=\"obit-text\">Duane Hesch, age 87, of Valley City, ND, died Friday, March 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at SMP Health-St. Raphael in Valley City surrounded by his loving family.\u00a0 A funeral mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM on Friday, March 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at St. Catherine\u2019s Catholic Church in Valley City.\u00a0 Visitation will be held on Thursday, March 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at St. Catherine\u2019s Catholic Church from 5:00 PM until 6:30 PM.\u00a0 The rosary will be recited at 6:30 PM with a Prayer Service immediately following.\u00a0 Interment will be in St. Catherine\u2019s Catholic Cemetery in the spring.\u00a0 An online guestbook and livestream of Duane\u2019s service will be available at www.lerudmathias.com<\/p>\n<p>Duane was born to Garvis and Bernice (Stroh) Hesch on December 25, 1934 in Valley City.\u00a0 He grew up in Eckelson, ND and graduated from Eckelson High School in 1952.\u00a0 In 1953, he joined the Valley City National Guard 141<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Engineer Combat Battalion (fka: 164th Infantry Regiment).\u00a0 He served from 1953 to 1961, holding the position of motor pool Sargent for the last 5 \u00bd years of his service.\u00a0 In 1957, he met his wife Linda Gratz and were married in 1961.\u00a0 They moved to Fargo where he attended Hanson\u2019s Auto &amp; Diesel School.\u00a0 He worked as a Ford mechanic before returning to farming with his father in 1965.\u00a0 In 1979, he took over the family farm and farmed until 1986.\u00a0 In winter months he worked several years for Peavey Elevator.\u00a0 After retiring from farming in 1986, he spent his free time working for other farmers and local farm implement dealers; he especially enjoyed hunting, fishing and spending time with his family, grandchildren and great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Linda; children Perry (Darlene) Hesch, Darla (Dave) Muckenhirn, Rhonda (Randy) Nikunen, and Wade (Kim) Hesch; his Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren; Sister Cheryl (Bruce) Foster; nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>He is preceded in death by his Parents, Grandparents, Grandson Tristen Hesch, Brother Larry Hesch, and Nephews Jeremy &amp; Kyle Foster.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to St. Catherine\u2019s Cemetery.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"panel panel-services\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Hesch, age 87, of Valley City, ND, died Friday, March 4th\u00a0at SMP Health-St. Raphael in Valley City surrounded by his loving family.\u00a0 A funeral mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM on Friday, March 11th\u00a0at St. Catherine\u2019s Catholic Church in Valley City.\u00a0 Visitation will be held on Thursday, March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":245038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245037","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\/245037","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245039,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245037\/revisions\/245039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/245038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}