Evelyn E. Bone • 1917- 2011

Evelyn E. Bone, 93, resident of Minot since 1946, died Monday, June 13, 2011, in a Minot hospital.
           
She was born Sept. 28, 1917, in Bismarck, a daughter of Harry and Alice (Bacon) Higgins. She attended elementary schools in Baldwin, ND, Aberdeen, Watertown and Webster, SD, and Minneapolis, MN. She graduated from Marshall High School in Minneapolis in 1935. She was employed at Northwest Bell Telephone Co. in Minneapolis from 1936 until 1939, and on Mary 30 of that year, married Jack C. Bone in Minneapolis. They moved to Virginia, MN, where he pursued a career as a journalist for the Range Facts Weekly. She remained in Virginia while he served in the Army during World War II.

Shortly after his discharge they moved to Minot where he went to work as city editor at The Minot Daily News. He held other posts at The News, working there until his retirement in 1978.

Evelyn was a stay-at-home mother while their two children were growing up. She later worked as a District Court bailiff in Minot. She attended Zion Lutheran Church and the church women’s group in Minot. She also was a member of the AV Chapter of PEO.

For a number of years, she and Jack, and their close Minot friends, the Ilvedsons, the Malms and the Lowes, vacationed in San Clemente, CA. They regarded those trips as remarkable in that they got along so well in their togetherness, all of them staying in one condominum. They played golf, they played bridge, and they enjoyed the stretch away from the North Dakota winter.

The Bones lived in a house on Ninth Avenue Southeast in Minot, a house that now is the home of their daughter Nancy Armstrong and her husband Gary. In recent years, following the death of her husband in 2002, Evelyn had been a resident of Trinity Homes in Minot.

She is survived by her daughter Nancy Armstrong and her husband Gary, Minot; a son, Jack Bone and his wife Sue, Canyonville, OR; three grandchildren, Seth Bone, Heath (Joan) Bone, and Sheila (Justin) Clark; four great-grandchildren, Andrew and Ellie Bone, Brianna and Jimmie Clark.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a grandson, Mark Armstrong, and brothers, Harry and John Higgins.

Reviewal and visitation will be Friday, June 17, 2011, from 3 to 7 p.m. at Thompson-Larson Funeral Home, Minot.

Funeral will be Wednesday, September 7, 2011,, at Trinity Homes Chapel, Minot.

Burial will be at Rosehill Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Zion Lutheran Church or Trinity Homes, both Minot.

Officiating Clergy: Chaplain Luther Hanson and Pastor Nathan Mugaas

Honorary Bearers: Evelyn’s family and friends

Following the funeral service, please join the family for a time of fellowship and lunch.

Our family would like to thank all of you for your many acts of kindness. Your thoughts and prayers are
greatly appreciated during this difficult time. May God bless the memory of Evelyn.

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