The BismarckTribune
June 10, 2004
UNDERWOOD -- Gary T. Hermanson, 62, Underwood, died June 7, 2004, at his home. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 11, at Augustana Lutheran Church, Underwood, with the Rev. Dan Maurer officiating. Burial will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Goetz Funeral Chapel, Underwood, with a remembrance service being held at 6:30 p.m. Vistation will continue for one hour prior to the services at the church.
Gary T. Hermanson was born Aug. 8, 1941, at Devils Lake, N.D., to Sander and Sally (Tollefson) Hermanson. He was raised and educated in Devils Lake, and graduated from Devils Lake High School in 1959. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on July 6, 1961. Gary was stationed at the Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, and served a tour of duty in Turkey. He returned to North Dakota and married Linda Flaa on June 20, 1964, at Fargo. Gary served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve until being honorably discharged on July 5, 1967.
He continued his education at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., and received a bachelors degree in business management. The couple lived in Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska and Alaska, where Gary was employed as a hospital and nursing home administrator for the Lutheran Brotherhood Foundation. They moved to Underwood in 1983. In 1986, Gary began his employment with Bis-Man Security Inc., and worked as a security officer at the Coal Creek Station and Falkirk Mine until 2004.
Gary enjoyed photography and gun collecting. He was an avid Green Bay Packers fan and was considered a real history-buff, watching hours of the History Channel. Gary served as an E.M.T. for the Underwood Ambulance Service for many years. He was a member of the Augustana Lutheran Church, and a member of the Thomas O. Williams American Legion Post 281 of Riverdale.
Gary is survived by his son, Todd Hermanson, Cortland, Neb., and one sister-in-law, Kirsten (Harry) Granfors, Monroe, Conn.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and his wife, Linda Kay Hermanson, who passed away on March 6, 2003.