Marjorie Sondrol, age 78 of Turtle Lake, ND died August 11th, 2016 at CHI St. Alexius Turtle Lake Hospital. Funeral services will be held Wednesday August 17th, 2016 at 10:00 AM at Trinity Lutheran Church, Turtle Lake with Pastor Sondra Krogstad officiating. Interment will be held in the Turtle Lake Cemetery. Visitation will be held Tuesday, August 16th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the Trinity Lutheran Church and will continue one hour prior to the service on Wednesday. A family service will be held at 6:00 PM Tuesday also at the church.

Marjorie Annette (Love) Sondrol was born September 19th, 1937 in Underwood, N.D. the daughter of Orville I. Love and Mary Ellen (Northfield) Love while they resided on a farm NW of Turtle Lake, N.D.
Her mother was a school teacher whom taught in many schools over the years of her career. Her parents were grain farmers and also custom harvesters. Each year as soon as their own crop was planted and school had let out for the summer the family and their crew and partners would travel "down south" as they said, to Oklahoma and sometimes as far as Texas to custom harvest grain crops, they would then work their way back home to ND in time for the start of school. Her father would then pick up work during the winters, which sometimes involved moving the family to Bismarck during the winter of her 5th grade year and Shell Beach, CA (where her paternal grandparents resided) during the winters of her 6th and 7th grade school years. Needless to say her formative years were well traveled but also then quite irregular. In her pre-school years she stayed with her mother in various country school houses during the week which for too far for daily commuting. Primarily she mostly attended schools (rural and city) in the Turtle Lake area, she did graduate from Turtle Lake High School in 1955 after her parents settled into a house in Turtle Lake some years prior. She then attended Minot State College for one year studying education.

She married a local Turtle Lake man named Allan B. Sondrol who was a recently returned navy veteran in September 8th, 1956. Allan then enrolled at NDSSS in Wahpeton, ND and studied electrical technology, graduating in the spring of 1958. While in Wahpeton their first child David Allan was born. Allan's first job out of NDSSS was in Edgeley, ND working for James Valley Co-op for 6 months. They then moved to Denver, CO where Allan worked for Glen L Martin Company. They then moved to Minot, ND in 1960 where he worked for Northwestern Electric. In 1962 they moved back to Turtle Lake and opened Sondrol Electric which was in business through 1971. In 1965 a son Daniel Mark was born and in 1969 a daughter Diane Mary joined the family. In the fall of 1971 Allan took a position with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as an electrician at the Garrison Dam town site of Riverdale ND, he later transferred into the hydroelectric dam power station again as an electrician. They resided in Riverdale until 1978 at which time they moved back to Turtle Lake once again where they took over the farm her parents after her father had passed away, they had also obtained some of their own land a few years earlier. In the years between the age gap of her son's availability and capabilities to help out, she often ran the tractor working the summer fallow. Allan then daily commuted to the Garrison Dam until his retirement in 1995.
Margie besides raising her family she had also owned and operated a whiteware shop in Riverdale for a couple of years. She then took the job as the head librarian at the Turtle Lake Library branch of The McLean-Mercer Regional Library soon after moving back to Turtle Lake, she worked there for nearly 30 years and had done a great deal of lobbying to obtain the resources which lead to its evolution from a simple set of portable shelves and a table as a desk at one end of the meeting room to its current location. She also served on the Turtle Lake City Commission for a couple of years. She was a member of the local Town & Country Hobby Club for many years until it disbanded.

She was an avid reader and collector of Barbie dolls, she loved to sew and enjoyed many other craft activities, she was a regular at local as well as regional craft fairs sometimes traveling as far as Carrington, Jamestown, Beulah, Minot and Parshall ND. The family has had and enjoyed together a cabin at Crooked Lake for more than thirty five years as well.

In recent years before lung cancer took too heavy of a toll she had worked briefly in part time positions at the local school cafeteria and at the local hospital kitchen.

She was preceded in death by her parents as well as three infant siblings whom died during or shortly after birth a brother and two sisters, and her husband of more than 51 years Allan and his parents Ernest Sondrol and Olive Sigmund.

She is survived and will be greatly missed by her sons David of Washburn, ND, Daniel (Mona) of Boedalen, Norway; her daughter Diane (David) Freborg of Turtle Lake, ND; eight grandchildren, Derek Johnson, Krystal (Javier) De Jesus, Marissa Bryant-Sondrol, Chad Shoemaker, Cody Sondrol, Austin Freborg, Annika Sondrol, Erik Sondrol and one step-grandson Garrett Freborg. Three great grandchildren Selena De Jesus, Jessie De Jesus and Analicia De Jesus. One aunt Dolores Siverson.

She also leaves behind several locally known first cousins; Quentin Love, Kathleen Seeger, Della Pederson, and in-laws; Ken (Marilyn) Sondrol, Sharon Goehring, Elray (Lynette) Sondrol, Clyde (Michelle) Sondrol, Vicki Sondrol and Evon (Gordon) Nelson. With the following having preceded her in death; by her cousins, Orian Cuccia, Audrey Sparks, Charles Love, Eugene Love, her sister-in-law Deloris Glover, her husband Ray Glover, and Les Goehring.