Private funeral services for Esther Pastian, age 90, of Mott, ND, will be held 11:00 a.m. MT on Thursday, August 13, 2020 at the Evanson Jensen Funeral Home in Elgin, ND.  Pastor Nathan Laska will officiate with burial to follow in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Elgin.  Services will be livestreamed through Esther's obituary on our website and can be viewed below.  Streaming will start 15 minutes prior to the start of the service.

Esther (Reichert) Pastian, 90 of Mott, passed away on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at the West River Regional Medical Center in Hettinger, ND.

Esther was born on January 27, 1930 to Gottlieb Reichert and Bertha (Iszler) Reichert in New Leipzig, ND. Esther was raised with 4 brothers: Rueben, Elmer (Leo), Herbert, and Albert. She also had two sisters: Lorraine, and Helen who both died at birth.  She lived with her family on the Reichert farm south of Bentley until her father passed in 1938. Her mother moved the family to Burt, ND. Esther attended school in Burt. On November 9, 1952, she married Reinhold Pastian at the Parsonage in Elgin, ND, Reinhold was in the Army at the time and then was sent to Korea. Together Esther and "Reiny" raised three children: Selda (Dyson), Sheldon, and Sheryl (Jahner).

Esther was a wonderful mother and wife, aunt and sister and a loving person.  She loved her family and friends and was always willing to help them whenever they needed her. Esther's hobbies were sewing, and she would make clothes for family and friends, she also crocheted and gardened.  She also loved to cook and was a great cook.  Family and friends seemed to gather most every weekend at their home, enjoying Esther and Reiny's hospitality and Esther's cooking. Esther was mostly a stay at home mom, worked only briefly outside the home on two occasions, once at the Dry Cleaners in Elgin and the other at the Good Samaritan Home in Mott.

Esther is survived by daughter's Selda and Sheryl and son Sheldon, seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; sister-in-law, Rose Hawn; cousin, Loretta Magstadt and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents Gottlieb and Bertha Reichert, husband Reinhold, bothers Rueben, Leo, Herbert and Albert, and sisters Lorraine and Helen.