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- Edward L. Gallagher, 79, formerly of 505 First Ave. N.W., Mandan, died Dec. 2, 1999, in the Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center, Bismarck, where he had been a resident for four years. Services will be held at 10 a.m.Monday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Mandan, with the Rev. Jacob Schumacher officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Pauline's Cemetery, Windsor.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, at Weigel Funeral Home,Mandan, where a Knights
of Columbus rosary will be said at 7p.m.,followed by a parish vigil at 7:30.
Edward was born Aug. 24, 1920, in Cleveland, the youngest son of Charles and Mabel (Brooks) Gallagher. He was raised and educated in Cleveland and joined the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1936-1939, stationed in Utah. On June 20, 1942, he married Laura Steinwand of Windsor.
Ed worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad, and was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1944, serving overseas in Czechoslovakia and Sicily during World War II. After the war, Edward returned to Cleveland in 1946, working with the Northern Pacific Railroad as a caterpillar operator. He became section foreman in Oberon, living there with his family from 1955 until 1965. Ed took a position as a temporary Roadmaster, living in Minneapolis for two years. He continued working as a Roadmaster for the Burlington Northern Railroad in Mandan, retiring there in 1980.
In Oberon, Edward was a volunteer fireman and a member of the schoolboard. He was a parishioner at St. James Church in Minnewaukan, and a member of the St. James Mens Club. While in Mandan he was an active member of the American Legion, Knights of Columbus and the Elks.
Ed and his wife, Laura, spent many hours doing volunteer work with organizations including AARC, Special Olympics, Aid Inc., and Meals on Wheels. Among Ed's many activities, he gardened, fished and attended auctions in the Mandan area. He especially enjoyed traveling with Laura in their motor home, visiting their children and grandchildren.
He is survived by three sons and two daughters-in-law, Edward C.and Lillian, Denver, Patrick and Sandra, Mandan, and Neal John, Bismarck; five daughters and fours sons-in-law, Jacqueline and Arnold Guerra, Phoenix, Karen Gallagher, Grand Forks, Lillian and Denis Buschmann, Ham Lake, Minn., Margaret and Clint Grinsteiner, Mustang,Okla., and Valerie and Leroy Flegel, Medina; 14 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; one brother and sister-in-law, John Bryon and Ethel Gallagher, Jamestown; and one sister and brother-in-law, Genevaand Willie Kamletz, Jamestown.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and his wife, Laura, who died in1992. Published in The Bismarck Tribune on 12/2/1999.
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