{"id":294584,"date":"2025-07-14T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=294584"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:26:37","slug":"charles-balvitsch-sunday-july-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=294584","title":{"rendered":"Charles Balvitsch &#8211; Sunday July 13, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/balvitschcharles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/balvitschcharles.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294657\" width=\"209\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/balvitschcharles.jpg 400w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/balvitschcharles-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/balvitschcharles-140x175.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p id=\"isPasted\">Charles Balvitsch, 64, Jamestown, ND, died Sunday, July 13, 2025, at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles was born October 20, 1960, at Rock Springs, WY the son of Frank and Marilyn (Nelson) Balvitsch. He grew up in the Glenfield area on the farm, attending school in Carrington and New Rockford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He moved to Jamestown in 1984, where he became a part of the Alpha Opportunities family. He spent his time with the mowing crew, cleaning at JC Penney\u2019s and the water plant in Jamestown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chuck enjoyed going to the races every Saturday, cheering on the Minnesota Twins, walking to and watching softball\/baseball games at McElroy. He also loved hanging out with friends and family; he spent many times at The Buff in Jamestown. Chuck competed in the Special Olympic in three sports, soccer, basketball, and bowling, all of which he enjoyed very much<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chuck is survived by his sister, Darcy (Daniel) Thorson, Jamestown, ND; aunts, uncles, and cousins; and special friends, Jaxon and Candy\/Brandon Carow family and Billy\/Amanda Carow family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was preceded in death by his parents; grandparents Adolph Balvitsch, Betty Winandy, Yolanda Nelson and step-grandparent, Bill Winandy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Memorial Service<\/strong>&#8211; 1:00 PM Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at Haut Funeral Home in Jamestown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Celebration of Life<\/strong>&#8211; 2:00-5:00 PM Tuesday at The Buff Bar &amp; Lounge in Jamestown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Balvitsch, 64, Jamestown, ND, died Sunday, July 13, 2025, at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo. Charles was born October 20, 1960, at Rock Springs, WY the son of Frank and Marilyn (Nelson) Balvitsch. He grew up in the Glenfield area on the farm, attending school in Carrington and New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":294658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294659,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294584\/revisions\/294659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}