ELMER ZARN obituary

CHINOOK - Elmer M. Zarn, 79, died Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003, at a Havre care center due to natural causes.

A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Zion Lutheran Church with burial following in the Kuper Memorial Cemetery.

Zarn was born on March 17, 1924, in Fargo, N.D., to Walter and Margit

(Thorson) Zarn. He was raised on a farm near Watford City, N.D., by his stepfather. In 1942 Elmer moved to Chinook with a friend who had relatives there.

He married Aileen Gorman on April 16, 1945, in Chinook.

He worked in the shipyards in Tacoma, Wash., worked on oil rigs, at an oil refinery an...