{"id":249192,"date":"2022-05-31T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249192"},"modified":"2022-06-03T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T16:48:28","slug":"karen-smedshammer-thursday-may-26-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249192","title":{"rendered":"Karen Smedshammer &#8211; Thursday, May 26 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Smedshammer, age 81, of Fargo, ND, formerly of Valley City, ND, died Thursday, May 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at Essentia Health, Fargo, ND.\u00a0 A memorial service will be held at a later date.\u00a0 Inurnment will be at the North Dakota Veteran\u2019s Cemetery in Mandan, ND.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Arlene Borgeson, the daughter of Jack and Mildred (Anderson) Borgeson, was born November 24, 1940 in Valley City, ND.\u00a0 Karen grew up and attended school in Hasting, ND where she graduated from Hastings High School in 1958.\u00a0 After her graduation, she attended North Dakota State School of Science in Wahpeton, ND and became a Licensed Practical Nurse.\u00a0 She did her practicum training in Fargo, ND.\u00a0 On May 6, 1961 she was united in marriage to Raymond Smedshammer at the North LaMoure Church near Litchville, ND. After her marriage, she worked in LaMoure as an LPN before the family moved to Valley City in 1966.\u00a0 Karen then began working at Mercy Hospital in Valley City where she worked until her retirement.\u00a0 After her retirement, she worked part time at Bridgeview Estates and the Sheyenne Care Center.\u00a0 The couple moved to Fargo, ND in 2011.\u00a0 Karen was an accomplished quilter, was a member of the Red Hat\u2019s and loved to tend to her flower beds.<\/p>\n<p>Karen is survived by her loving husband of 62 years, Raymond, Fargo, ND; three children, LaRae Smedshammer, Shakopee, MN, David (Wendy) Smedshammer, Sandy, UT and Randy Smedshammer, Mosinee, WI; three grandchildren, KarLee Smedshammer, RyLee Smedshammer and SaLee Smedshammer, all Sandy, UT; one sister, Jackie Heroux, Valley City, ND; one niece, Lisa (Scott) Limesand and one nephew, Paul (Dawn) Heroux, all Valley City, ND.<\/p>\n<p>Karen was preceded in death by her parents and a brother-in-law, Richard Heroux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"obituary-text-CTAs\">To send a flower arrangement or to plant trees in memory of\u00a0<strong>Karen Arlene Smedshammer<\/strong>, please\u00a0<a class=\"obituaryInline-flowers-textLink-obitText\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lerudschuldt.com\/obituary\/karen-smedshammer\/flowers?campaign=obituaryInline-flowers-textLink-obitText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here to visit our Sympathy Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Smedshammer, age 81, of Fargo, ND, formerly of Valley City, ND, died Thursday, May 26th\u00a0at Essentia Health, Fargo, ND.\u00a0 A memorial service will be held at a later date.\u00a0 Inurnment will be at the North Dakota Veteran\u2019s Cemetery in Mandan, ND. Karen Arlene Borgeson, the daughter of Jack and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":249193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249192","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\/249192","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=249192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249194,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249192\/revisions\/249194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}