Wesley Paul Schneider

• 1930 - Gilbert Township, Rolette County, North Dakota. (age 8)
• 1940 - Township 162-73, Rolette County, North Dakota.
• 1950 - Bottineau, Bottineau County, North Dakota. (sampler weigher ?, creamery)

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Wesley Paul Schneider, 92, of Bottineau, North Dakota, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, at St Andrews Hospital, Bottineau North Dakota. Burial will be at the Oak Creek Cemetery, Bottineau, North Dakota, in the spring

Wesley Paul Schneider, a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Koch) Schneider, was born Dec. 27, 1920, at Dunseith, North Dakota.

He was reared and educated in the Dunseith area. Wes was the ninth of 12 children six boys and six girls.

Growing up on a farm by Dunseith, North Dakota, they learned to entertain themselves with music; Wes could play accordion, violin, harmonica and guitar at a very early age. After his education he worked on the family farm.

Wes began working for Pride Dairy in Dunseith, North Dakota in the early ’40s taking a year off to work for a farmer in Grand Forks and then returning to Pride Dairy in Bottineau, North Dakota from which he retired in 2007. In 1944 he was married to Evelyn Hiatt. They had five children. Evelyn died in 1963. In 1972 he married Ovidia Forde Sletten. They have resided in Bottineau since.

He was a great jokester with a quick wit. He loved fishing, hunting, woodworking and gardening, growing enough to provide for lots of canning and to give to family and friends. Wesley was a member of United Parish in Bottineau, North Dakota.

He is survived by: his wife of 40 years, Ovidia; his children, Paul, Allan, Dale (Les), Diane Sedlack, Pamela (Bob) Ryan; and stepchildren, Ruth (Ron) Gust, Barb (Mike) Davis, Karen (Larry) Larson, and John (Judy) Sletten; 17 grandchildren; and 12 great grandchildren; his sister, Dorothy Hardy.

He was preceded in death by: his parents; 10 brothers and sisters; and stepdaughter, Nancy Steigerwalt, and her husband, Chester.