{"id":3808,"date":"2012-09-12T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2012-09-12T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T21:05:02","slug":"leona-l-bollinger-sept-11-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3808","title":{"rendered":"Leona L. Bollinger -Sept 11, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Leona L. Bollinger, 89, of Edgeley, ND, died Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at Manor St Joseph in Edgeley.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Leona was born on March 16, 1923, on the family farm\u00a0south of Kulm, ND, the daughter of Christ and Amelia (Ruff) Welk.\u00a0 She attended country school and worked as a housekeeper for area neighbors when she was young.\u00a0 Leona married Arthur Bollinger on February 23, 1945 in Kulm.\u00a0 While he was in the Navy, Leona worked as a waitress, along with Art\u2019s sister, Ida, in California until\u00a0the spring of 1946.\u00a0 Leona and Arthur returned to live and farm on the Bollinger farmstead south of Edgeley.\u00a0 She was always a diligent worker on the farm tending her chickens, geese, &amp; ducks,\u00a0working in the garden and milking cows.\u00a0She also took great\u00a0pride in her work in the kitchen cooking large meals for the men on the farm, making homemade bread, baking goodies and canning her garden produce. In 1980 she started her career as a nurse\u2019s aide at\u00a0Manor St Joseph and continued to work there until 2007.\u00a0\u00a0In 1991, they moved off the farm\u00a0to Edgeley.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Leona is survived by her husband, Arthur Bollinger of Edgeley; son, Allen (Brenda) Bollinger of Edgeley; daughter-in-law, Michelle Bollinger of Edgeley; seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren, Nick (Heidi) Bollinger and their children, Cashton and Jack, of Jamestown, Pat (Maria) Bollinger and their child, Rhylen, of Fergus Falls, MN, Jake (Jill) Bollinger of Fargo, Kali (Tanner) Kiecker and their children, Jozie and Emmy, of Edgeley, Claire Bollinger of Omaha, NE, Eric Bollinger of Edgeley, and Emily (Steve) Klym of Belfield, ND.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">She was preceded in death by her parents; son, Gene Bollinger; two sisters, Annetta Geisler and Nora Kinzler; and two brothers, Walter Welk and Norman Welk.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em><strong><br \/>\nFuneral Service:<\/strong><\/em><em> 11:00 a.m., Saturday, September 15, 2012 at Wesley United Methodist Church, Edgeley.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em><strong>Visitation:<\/strong><\/em><em> 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Friday, September 14, 2012 at Williams-Lisko Funeral Chapel, Edgeley.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em><strong>Interment:<\/strong><\/em><em> North Dakota Veteran Cemetery, Mandan, <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leona L. Bollinger, 89, of Edgeley, ND, died Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at Manor St Joseph in Edgeley. Leona was born on March 16, 1923, on the family farm\u00a0south of Kulm, ND, the daughter of Christ and Amelia (Ruff) Welk.\u00a0 She attended country school and worked as a housekeeper for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","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=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}