Misc. Notes
Married Maynard James Satrom (25 Mar 1938) on 14 Jun 1959
[Obituar] Bismark Tribune - 27 Feb 2012
Services for Jeanette Satrom, 73, Oriska, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Valley City. Burial will be at the Page Cemetery, Page. She died Feb. 25, 2012, at Sanford Health on South University, Fargo.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church with a prayer service being held there at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue on Tuesday an hour prior to the service at the church.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, March 16, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Calvary Free Lutheran Church, Mesa, Ariz.
Jeanette Maralyn Loken was born in Valley City Oct. 3, 1938, to Oscar and Helen (Bruns) Loken at Mercy Hospital. She grew up on the family farm near Oriska before the family moved to Tower City where the Lokens owned a hardware store. Jeanette graduated from Tower City High School in 1956. She attended Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., for two years and went on to UND where she received her bachelor of science in education in 1959.
Jeanette was united in marriage to Maynard Satrom on June 14, 1959, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Tower City. They made their home in Grand Forks where she taught in the public schools for two years. In April 1962, they began farming near Oriska with Jeanette’s parents. They farmed until retiring in December 2011. Jeanette served on the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education from 1994 to 2001 and also on the NDSU State Board of Agricultural Research and Education.
Jeanette is survived by her husband, Maynard; her children, John and Amy Satrom, West Fargo; Kristen and Garth Lindgren, Oriska; Andrea and Jon Richman, Oriska: and 10 grandchildren. She is also survived by a sister, Arlyss and Dick Grosz, Erie, Colo.
Memorials to Red Willow Bible Camp and to the Oscar and Helen Loken Scholarship, Concordia College, are preferred in lieu of flowers.
Funeral arrangements for Jeanette have been entrusted to Oliver-Nathan Funeral Chapel, Valley City. Please visit her online guest book at
www.oliver-nathanchapel.com.