Funeral Services for Hazel Weishaar, age 96, of Elgin, ND will be held at 10:30 am on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Elgin with Pastor Brian Knutson officiating. A private family burial will be held at a later date.

Visitation will be on Monday, December 28 from 1-6 pm with a gathering for family and friends at 6 pm at the Evanson Jensen Funeral Home in Elgin.


HAZEL CAROLINE TROGSTAD was born March 4, 1919 in rural east Adams County, ND. She was the 4th of 8 children born to H.C. "Bert" Trogstad and Gena (Texley)Trogstad. She attended South Fork Consolidated School northeast of Lemmon, SD, thru the 9th grade. She then attended Lemmon High School and graduated in 1937. After graduation she worked at a coffee shop in Lemmon and also helped with the hot lunch program at South Fork School. It was there that she caught the eye of her future husband, Julius "Johnny" Weishaar. They wrote letters back and forth, became engaged, and later married in Ft Benton, Montana on April 29, 1941.

Johnny and Hazel moved back to the Weishaar family homestead later in 1941. Their children Ben, Kenny, Verlyn and Blanche were born while they lived there. They lived for a few years in New Leipzig and in 1960 moved to Hazel's sister's farm northeast of Lemmon. Delbert was born while they lived there. In 1969 they moved to the Markow farm south of Elgin. Johnny passed away in January of 1989 and Hazel continued to live on the farm until she bought a house and moved into Elgin in 1992. She raised a garden and kept up her own lawn, was proud of the flowers by the house, and cooked and canned until she moved into Dakota Hills housing in Elgin in 2008, just a few months before her 90th birthday. She resided at Dakota Hills until December 16, 2015. While there she enjoyed attending the activities, reading, watching and listening to the old-time music and dancing on TV, keeping the staff on their toes, and getting visits from friends and relatives, especially grandkids and great-grandkids. Hazel stayed in touch with her children through their lives trying to make sure they had the essentials to succeed in life.

Hazel passed from this life on December 21, 2015 at Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center.

She is survived by two sons, Ben (Yvonne) Weishaar and Delbert Weishaar, Elgin; one daughter, Blanche (Rodger) Schumacher, Kintyre, ND; two daughters-in-law, Ardella Weishaar, Bismarck, ND and Donna Weishaar, Morristown, SD; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; three sisters, Laura Mosley, Gettysburg, SD; Gertie Wegner, Golden Valley, ND; Lucille Miller, Medford Oregon; sister-in-law, Alice Trogstad, Lemmon SD; and numerous nieces and nephews

Hazel was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Johnny; sons Verlyn and Kenny Weishaar; grandson Michael Weishaar; sister, Agnes Molitor; and brothers, Curtis, Clifford and Ernie Trogstad.

A memorial has been established by the family.