Leopold Gunsch Obituary (1924 - 2014)

Leopold Gunsch, 89, Mandan, North Dakota, passed away, June 25, 2014, at Windsor, Colorado. Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 AM, Friday, July 18, 2014, at DaWise-Perry Funeral Services, Mandan, with Rev. Keith Ritchie officiating. Visitation is scheduled for one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Burial will be in the Mandan Cemetery, Mandan. Leopold was born November 17, 1924, in rural Mott, North Dakota, to Jacob and Katherine (Grueble) Gunsch. He was raised and educated in Mott, and married Cinderella Biffert in Mandan, on October 9, 1950. She passed away June 21, 1978. Leopold loved family functions and was a "social butterfly". He enjoyed spending time outside mowing lawn, and worked at various construction jobs throughout his life. He is survived by two daughters, Bernice Jamgochian, Fargo, and Ruth (Floyd) Holzworth, Bismarck; two sons, Reuben (Vi) Magstadt, Bismarck, Ervin Magstadt, Bismarck; special friend of 30 years, Annie Grenz; and numerous nieces and nephews. Leopold was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; and 17 brothers and sisters, Theodore, Benjamin, Emma Ottmar, John, Oscar, Ella Ottmar, Clara Will, Arthur, Rueben, Reinhold, infant Martha, and Albert, Andrew, John, Edward, and Lorentina Otto.