Larry Keith Jorgenson^{[1, 2, 3]}

1947 - 1998  (51 years)

• Name	Larry Keith Jorgenson  [4, 5, 6, 7]
  Born	14 Mar 1947	Rugby, Pierce, North Dakota, United States   [4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  Christened	Leeds, Benson, North Dakota, United States
  Gender	Male
  Died	24 Aug 1998	Leeds, Benson, North Dakota, United States   [6, 8, 10]
  	Age at Death: 51
  Buried	Leeds, Benson, North Dakota, United States   [11]
  Person ID	I658	Costner Descendants
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Palmer Everet Jorgenson,   b. 1908,   d. 1979  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Bernise Olive Bennes,   b. 1911,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3877	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susan Jane Crewson
  Children	1. Emily Ann Jorgenson   2. Andrew Allen Jorgenson
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2022
  Family ID	F59	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Larry was born and grew up in Leeds, North Dakota on the farm in a house that his father helped to build just 6 miles from Leeds. He attended K through 12 at the Leeds School where he excelled in academics, graduating valedictorian of his class in 1965. Larry went on to college at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, where he was president of his fraternity, TKE. He graduated with a Chemical Engineering degree. He was interning at Potlatch in Cloquet when he met Sue at the paper company staff house where she was working as a maid. They both attended ASU in Phoenix where he earned an MBA and started working for Motorola. Due to complications from his diabetes, Larry and Sue left Arizona, traveled the country and ended up settling in North Dakota, farming first with relatives and then eventually on their own, growing wheat, barley, flax and sunflowers. Larry was active in the Leeds community, where he belonged to the Lions Club and was treasurer for the Catholic Church. Larry was a "brittle" or Type 1 diabetic, having been diagnosed at age 3. He would joke about opting for a surgery every year to maintain his body and said he loved being in the hospital, having all the gorgeous young nurses waiting on him hand and foot. Larry had several close medical calls including a stroke and blindness for an extended period of time. He lived with excruciating nerve pain and stumbling due to numbness in his feet and lower legs. In spite of all that, you would never know he had a serious medical problem, because he looked perfectly healthy, tall, dark, and handsome and always ready with hilarious insights and jokes. Larry was well known in Leeds and throughout our family for his funny stories. In the summer of 1998, Larry developed a foot/leg infection that got out of control and resulted in an amputation of one of his legs below the knee. He was in the process of being fitted with a bionic foot and seemed to be in the best of spirits when one night he had a blood sugar chemical imbalance problem and a seizure apparently stopped his heart. He lived for several days in a comatose state and then passed away on August 24th in a hospital in Minot, North Dakota with his wife, Sue, his daughter, Emily, son, Andy, mother Bernie and sister, Lois at his side. Larry's funeral was ecumenical at the Catholic Church in Leeds with his selections of music and poetry. Larry was buried in the Leeds Lutheran Cemetery alongside the road to his family farm. Larry often joked that he wanted his grave to say, "I told you I was sick." He left our whole family with many great memories, especially, an example of a positive way to handle a difficult life situation.

  
  

• Sources

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