Claribel Misslin

Claribel Rachel Goetkin

Misslin died September 4,

2020 at CHI Hospital in

Garrison, ND.

A rosary will take place

at 7 pm on Tuesday Sep-

tember 8 at Thompson

Funeral Home and funeral

services will be at St. Ni-

cholas Catholic Church in

Garrison at 11:00 am on

Wednesday, September 9,

2020. Visitation will be

held on Tuesday from 5 to

7 pm at St. Nicholas

Catholic Church. Burial

will take place immediate-ly following at St Nicholas

Cemetery. Due to COVID

the services are for family

members only.

Claribel Misslin was

born March 25, 1924 in

Glenwood City, Wiscon-

sin, to Louie and Lillian

Goetkin. She grew up on a

dairy farm where she was

tasked with assisting her

father with the milking,

haying and general farm-

ing duties.

She had her appendix

out while still in high

school and during this ex-

perience a nurse gave her

a back rub and that deter-

mined her career path.

She stated she knew then

what she wanted to do

with her life-she wanted

to do for others what that

nurse had done for her.

Consequently upon gra-

duation she left Glenwood

City for St. Paul where

she attended St. Joe’s

School of Nursing. It was

there that she met a young

student from the Univer-

sity of St. Thomas who

had his gall bladder re-

moved. She told her nurs-

ing student friends that

night that she was going

to marry himÃ-..and so

she did. She also served

as a Navy Cadet nurse for

a period after her gradua-

tion from nurses training.

Clairibel married Robert

Anthony Misslin of

Garrison North Dakota on

June 25, 1942 in Miami,

Florida. They lived in St.

Paul after his discharge

from the Navy and in

1949 they moved back to

his home town of Garris-

on, North Dakota. He

taught for many years

while they made many

lifelong colleague friends

as well as students. He

eventually took over his

father’s grain elevator

business.

On December 18, 1962

he had an accident that

left him paralyzed from

the waist down. Claribel

then became his fulltime

caregiver. She assisted

him in obtaining his

master’s degree in coun-

seling and guidance and

they worked in tandem to

do the accounting for the

Garrison Memorial Hospi-

tal for numerous years. He

died 33 year later in 1995.

During their early years

together he taught her to

love the game of golf,

bridge, and the fun of

hunting ducks, geese, and

pheasants. She continued

to pursue all of those ac-

tivities even after he

could no longer partici-

pate and long after his

death.

She was very active in

the community with St

Nicholas Church, the Le-

gion, the school, the Dick-

ens Festival and the

Garrison Golf Course. She

loved her family and her

friends. Her ending com-

ment to all was have a

great day, God Bless You,

and I love ya!

She moved to Bismarck

in 1912 after falling and

breaking her hip. She

remained there until Au-

gust, 2020 when a similar

accident caused her to be

hospitalized.

She is survived by: her

sister Gladys Best of Glen-

wood City her children

Peter (Julia) Venore, TN,

Patty (Don) Clement,

Bismarck, ND and Micha-

el (Kay) Mandan, ND.

She had six grandchildren

and eight

great-grandchildren. She

is also survived by many

numerous nieces and

nephew, all of whom she

considered special.

In lieu of flowers the

family prefers memorials

to the Misslin Dollars for

Scholars.