John Ackre (July 16, 1949)
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon in the Zoar Lutheran church in Hampden for Jaohn Ackre, 73, resident of the Hampden community since 1900, who died Saturday evening in a Grand Forks hospital.Rev. Lawrence Rasmussen officiated at the service. The Toomey funeral chapel was in charge of arrangements.
Born in Lee county, Illinois, February 11, 1876, he came to the Hamdpen community in 1900 and filed on a homestead north of Hampden in Billings township.
He was married to Martina Skjeveland November 22, 1904, at Grand Forks.
He served as a member of the school and township board, the Hampden Elevator board, the Lutheran church board and the Cando Farmers Insurance company board.
Survivors besides his wife include two sons, Herman and George, both of Hampden. One son died in 1910 at the age of four years.
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