Barbara E. Vandenburg, 89, of Carson, ND died on, February 27, 2013 at the Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin.

The Funeral Service will be held at the Bethel Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Carson, ND at 2:00pm (MST), on Monday, March 4, 2013 with the Reverends Paul Ferrie and Richard Wynja, officiating. Interment will be at Pleasant View Cemetery at Lark, ND immediately following the service. Please join the family and friends for fellowship after the burial.

Visitation will be held Sunday evening, March 3, 2013 from 1 â?? 5 pm (MST) at the Evanson-Jensen funeral home, Elgin, ND.

Serving as casketbearers are Barbara's grandchildren, Wesley, Preston, Danielle, and Kaylene Fisbeck, Michelle Eaton, and Deborah Whitlock.

Barbara Elaine Knight was born April 15, 1923 in Highwood, Michigan to Dewey Clyde and Sarah (Robbins) Knight. She graduated from Gladwin High School and worked in the Gladwin County Abstract Office for several years before entering college at Michigan State and earning her degree in Elementary Education. She attended Taylor University in Upland, Indiana for one semester where she met her future husband, Gerrit Vandenburg. They were united in marriage on May 2, 1952 in Haslett, Michigan. They began their life together in Haslett where their four daughters were born. The Vandenburgs moved to the Lark/Leith North Dakota area where they both taught at the Brisbane school. They then moved to Thornton, Colorado where they taught school until retiring.

Barbara and Gerrit moved to Carson, ND where they continued to enjoy their retirement years together. Her husband passed away on April 15, 2010. Due to her health, she moved into Dakota Hills Assisted Living in Elgin.

She was an avid reader throughout her life. She enjoyed entertaining company on Sunday afternoons following church. Barbara was an active member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Carson and was a dear friend to the children of the congregation.

She is survived by three daughters and one son-in-law, Cheryl Eaton of Denver, Colorado; Lori and Michael Hall of Loveland, Colorado; and Marlayne Whitlock of Atlanta, Georgia; seven grandchildren, Wesley, Preston (Danielle), and Kaylene Fisbeck, Michelle Eaton, Christian, John Patton and Deborah Whitlock; and one great granddaughter, Naudia Fisbeck. She is also survived by one sister-in law, Jane Knight, Arizona; and three nieces and one nephew, Susan Knight Emore, Arizona; Dennis Hart, Michigan; Kristine Smith, Michigan; and Patty Hlatko, Michigan; six sisters-in-law and four brothers-in-law, JoAnn Vandenburg, Michigan; Ella Nieuwsma, California; Henry and Pat Vandenburg, Indiana; Melvin and Barbara Vandenburg, Montana; Eldon and Darlene Droog, North Dakota; Dennis and Ione Huber, South Dakota; and many nieces and nephews as well as several cousins.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Gerrit, daughter, Debra Kay in 1986, her parents, and brother, Wendell Knight, and sister, Virginia Hart and one niece, Julie Tapia.

Memorials are preferred in Barbara's name to the Jacobson Memorial Hospital or Dakota Hills.