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Matilda "Tillie" Wasson • 1933 - 2011 Matilda E. “Tillie” Rath was born April 30, 1933, a daughter of Henry and Margaret (Siedler) Rath, in Coleharbor, ND. She was raised and educated in the Turtle Lake area. Matilda married Dale H. Wasson, Sr., on August 26, 1951, in Turtle Lake, ND. They made their home in Velva, ND, where their son, Randy, was born. They lived in Velva for a short time before moving to Havre, MT, where four more children were born. While in Havre, Tillie cleaned homes for elderly women, and she and Dale both were avid bowlers. Dale’s employment with the Burlington Northern Railroad brought them back to North Dakota in 1976. They made their home in Velva, where they had lived since. She was very grateful to be a stay home mother. She was able to be there for her children while they were growing up. Tillie always told her children that since she was the youngest in her family she was spoiled by her father. She told us about the time her father went to town to buy eggs, but instead of bringing the money home to her mother, he bought her a pony. Tillie was well known in the Velva area. She enjoyed canning hot peppers and making hot pepper jelly. She also enjoyed embroidering pillow cases and dish towels, as she would give them as gifts for weddings, Christmas, graduation or birthdays. She also liked playing bingo in Velva and Minot. Tillie and Dale also enjoyed taking a drive to the casino and playing pull tabs. She also played softball while living in Turtle Lake. She was a member of the Velva American Legion Auxiliary Post #39. Dale passed away February 17, 2011. Tillie and Dale will both be missed by all who knew them. While at the Souris Valley Care Center in Velva, the high school gave the nursing home a doll that wouldn’t work anymore. Tillie adopted that doll and it went everywhere she went. If she didn’t have it, you were supposed to be watching the doll. Tillie moved to the Bethel Nursing Home in Williston in May of 2011, and the doll came with her. All of the residents in her ward started taking care of babies as well. If Tillie wanted to leave, she would take the baby across the hall to Earl, and he would babysit until she returned. Tillie was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Dale; two daughters at birth, daughter-in-law, Rosanne Wasson; grandson, Dale R. Wasson Sigloh; five brothers, Christian, John, Herbert, Edward (Clara) and Emil (Emma) Rath; and sisters, Anna Rath, Martha (Ben) Treibwasser, Lorraine (Edwin) Simonson, Bertha (Edmund) Iverson, and Regina (Kenneth) Britton.
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Matilda E. Wasson, 78, longtime area resident of Velva, ND, died Friday, August 19, 2011, at the Bethel Home in Williston, with her daughter and son-in-law, Kathy and Carl, by her side.