Elsie McLean

Elsie N. McLean, 86, Bismarck, died September 25, 2003 in a local hospital. Services will be held at 10 AM Monday at 103 Shady Acres, Mandan, ND head west on the street in front of Bonanza, take right on Shady Acres and proceed past two houses, it is a large building on the west side of the street, with ministers Shelley Vigesaa, Joyce Naber, Dale Spencer, and Ken Pinney officiating. Burial will be in the Menoken Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2-8 PM Sunday at Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck. Elsie Nicoline House McLean was born November 20, 1916 in Blackwater Township west of Garrison, ND, the daughter of Lewis Cyrus and Nicoline Solberg House. She attended country schools in rural Blackwater Township. When Elsie was growing up her family had the Emmet, ND Post Office in their home, where their mother was the Postmaster. Elsie graduated from Garrison High School in 1932 and moved to Bismarck with her mother. She graduated from Capital Commercial College and worked for an attorney and at the Bismarck Hospital. Elsie married H. Lloyd McLean on June 27, 1936 and they lived on a farm at rural Menoken until 1982. Elsie served as bookkeeper for the McLean Well Drilling Company, owned and operated by her husband Lloyd and brother-in-law, Donald McLean until the late 1960's. Elsie worked as a secretary briefly for an Insurance Company in 1963, and worked as a secretary for the Public Service Commission from 1963 until 1983, when she retired. Elsie bought a home and moved it to a daughter and son-in-law's farm Barb and Gordie at rural McKenzie. She lived there until September of 1997, when she moved her home back to Menoken to live on the farm with daughter and son-in-law, Katie and Jerry. Elsie moved to the Terrace in Bismarck on July 30, 2003. Lloyd and Elsie had twelve children and she loved to be surrounded by her family and friends and adored her grandchildren. Elsie is survived by twelve children and eight sons and daughters-in-law, Laurel McLean Larsen, Grand Island, NE, Clyde McLean, Apache Junction, AZ, Dennis and Judy McLean, Amarillo, TX, Kathleen and Jerry Schmitcke, Menoken, ND, Judith McLean Martzolf, Maricopa, AZ, Barbara and Gordon Knutson, McKenzie, ND, Jon and Eileen McLean, Longmont, CO, Myra and Doug Vik, Apache Junction, AZ, Carol and Billy Fielhaber, Minot, ND, Robb and Angela McLean, Aurora, NE, Lyndon and Carol McLean, McKenzie, ND, and Loren McLean, Bismarck, ND; twenty grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; nephews, Bradley McLean, Menoken, ND, Sandy McLean, Bismarck, ND, and the late, Lyle McLean, children of her heart; one brother and sister-in-law, Larry and Ruth House, Scottsdale, AZ; two sisters-in-law, Marie House, Albuquerque, NM and Catherine McLean Swanson, Yakima, WA; and many beloved nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, H. Lloyd McLean; her mother and father, Nicoline Solberg and Lewis House; one brother, Elon House; two sisters, Carol Haas and Marjorie Knispel; and one son-in-law, Will Larsen.

Elsie McLean

November 20, 1916 - September 25, 2003