Funeral services for Elaine Laches, age 87, of Mott, ND will be held at 10:00a.m. MDT Friday, July 6, 2012 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Mott, ND with Pastor John Amundson officiating. Burial will be in the Mott Sunnyslope Cemetery. Visitations will be from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 5 at the Evanson Jensen Funeral Home in Mott, ND and one hour prior to the funeral on Friday morning at the church.


Elaine Fraase was born October 27, 1924 in Emden, ND to Fred and Elizabeth (Buschold) Fraase. She was the oldest of seven children. As a young girl her family moved to Freda, ND where she grew up and was educated in a rural school near Freda.


Elaine married Kasper Laches October 4, 1941. Later that year Kasper went in the Army until 1945 when Germany surrendered. Elaine and Kasper moved to Mott where she was employed for ten plus years as a telephone operator in the Mott office of Northwestern Bell Telephone Company. While in Mott, three sons were born, Dennis, Kenneth and Robert. Elaine was a long time resident of West Mott for over 70 years, enduring several floods only to return to her home afterwards to pick up the pieces and continue. She was a member of a Mott Homemakers Club for a number of years, and served on the West Mott precinct election board.


Elaine passed away on Monday, July 2, 2012 at the West River Regional Medical Center in Hettinger, ND.


She is survived by her three sons and one daughter-in-law, Dennis Laches, Mott, ND, Kenneth and Linda (Frank) Laches, Chandler, AZ, Robert Laches, Mandan, ND; her grandchildren, Bryan and Tricia Laches, Scottsdale, AZ, Jessica and Sean Valley, Chandler, AZ; and her great-grandchildren, Jordan and James Laches and Addison Valley, one brother Rodger (Sharleen) Fraase, Dickinson, ND, One sister Alice Fischer, Carson,ND, Two sisters-in-law Betty Fraase, Fargo, ND, Mercy Fraase, Tacoma, Washington ,one brother-in-law Glenn Udell, Carson, ND and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Kasper Laches; two brothers, Fred and Ronald Fraase; two sisters, Adeline Chadwick and Ina Udell.