A Memorial Service for Morville Skretteberg, age 91 of Carson, will be held at 1:00pm MST Thursday, November 11, 2010 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Carson. Pastor Rose Trenbeath will officiate and the cremains will be buried in the Carson Cemetery.


Morville S Skretteberg was born on March 27 1919 at Lemmon, SD to August and Mary (Meuret) Skretteberg. He grew up on the family homestead about 5 miles south of Shadehill, SD. He attended rural country school and Lemmon High School.

When Morville was 15, his father passed away. The family left the homestead and moved to Lemmon. His mother later married Oscar Skretteberg.


When he was 17, because of the drought of the 30's, they trailed the family's sheep herd to Elbow Woods, ND in search of grass. They stayed there for 15 months in a little one room shack. They returned to Shadehill and later bought a place on the Heart River north of Carson, ND. He met Evelyn Johnson and they were united in marriage on January 22, 1941 in Baker, MT.


They started life on a small farm 7 miles north of Carson, A few years later they moved to a farm on the Heart River. In 1947 they picked a spot along the river and built a home and farmstead where he continued to live until just 2 weeks ago.


He retired many years ago but he and Evelyn continued to help family where they could.


Morville enjoyed spending many winters in Arizona with Evelyn until about 10 years ago. He also enjoyed driving his John Deere Gator around the farm checking crops and seeing what his family might be doing.


Morville passed away Monday morning, November 8, 2010 at the Elm Crest Manor Nursing Home in New Salem, ND with his family at his side.


Morville will be deeply missed by his 3 sons and daughters-in-law; Gary and Audrey, of Carson; Loron and LaVonne, of Carson; Rod and Millie, of Elgin; 4 grandchildren, Diana (Don Schick), Mandan; Chad (Dawn) Skretteberg, Carson; Kristie (Gregg Klusmann), New Salem; Eric (Shannon) Skretteberg, Carson; 10 great grandchildren; 1 sister, Shirley (Uland) Zecker, Mesquite, NV; 1 brother in law, Lyle Peters, Rapid City, SD; 3 sisters-in-law, Charlotte Johnson, New Salem, ND, Bernice (Harlan) Steinley, Bismarck, ND; Irene Johnson, Bismarck, ND; and numerous nieces and nephews.


Preceding him in death were his parents August & Mary Skretteberg; his stepfather Oscar Skretteberg; his wife, Evelyn; one sister, Marvlyn Peters; one son, Monte Skretteberg; one grandson Brandon Skretteberg; and one great-grandson, Tucker Schick


Visitation will be one hour prior to services on Thursday at St. John's Lutheran Church.


A memorial has been established.