BOWDON Howard Rodacker, 79, of Bowdon, died Thursday, July 9, 2009, in a Bismarck hospital.

He was born Sept. 21, 1929, to Fred and Alvina Rodacker near Bowdon. He entered the Army in 1951 and was stationed in Germany. He was discharged in 1953. He married Joan Kroeger in 1957 in Breckenridge, Minn.

Survivors: wife; daughter, Lynette Schumaker, Bismarck; sons, Mark, Dickinson, Keith, Bowdon, Blaine, Huron, S.D., Michael, Bismarck; nine grandchildren; sister, Donna Johnson, Bowdon; brothers, Virgil, Bowdon, Darwin, Carrington, Dennis, Danbury, Wis.

Funeral: Monday, 10:30 a.m., Bowdon Country Seventh-day Adventist Church, rural Bowdon.

Burial: Wayside Cemetery, Bowdon.

Visitation: Today, 2 to 4 p.m., Nelson Funeral Home, Fessenden.