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Angeletta Delores Henry Ross
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Angeletta Delores Henry Ross died Sunday, March 14, 2010, at her home on
Little Wolf Lake outside of Cass Lake.
A wake service will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Veteran's Memorial
Building in Cass Lake. The wake service will move to the White Earth
Community Building at 1 p.m. Friday and continue until the time of the service
at 11 a.m. Saturday at the White Earth Community Building with the Rev. Lisa
Smith officiating. Burial will be in the Samuel Memorial Cemetery in Nay-
tahwaush following the service.
Pallbearers will be Matthew Eidsvoog, Chris Sieling, Mark Eidsvoog, Alan
Boswell, Jared Boswell, Ravi Norman and Erik Haugen.
Arrangements with Northern Peace Funeral Home of Walker.
She was born July 29, 1930, to Samuel and Marie Henry in White Earth. She
graduated from Flandreau Boarding School in South Dakota. She married
George Mark Ross Jan. 14, 1950. She attended St. Catherine’s College in St.
Paul. She worked at Medtronic in New Brighton, Minn. She was a licensed
Ojibwe Language teacher. She taught at Bemidji State University for a short
period of time and substituted at Bemidji High School. She taught at the Circle
of Life School in White Earth. She moved to Cass Lake and taught the Ojibwe
language at the Cass Lake Elementary School and Cass Lake High School.
She enjoyed taking her pontoon out to her favorite fishing spots. She enjoyed
knitting and crocheting hats, scarves, mittens and afghans. She looked for-
ward to feeding the humming birds. She accompanied her husband to
conventions and conferences throughout the United States. When in Fair-
banks, Alaska, the bishop would send them to small outlying villages. Another
favorite job was critiquing her husband’s sermons and service bulletins. Most
of all she enjoyed spending time with her family, children, grandchildren and
great grandchildren.
She is survived by her husband; daughters, Violet Ross of St. Louis Park,
Annette (John) Sieling of Eagle Bend, Minn., Deborah Ross of Bemidji and
Pam Ross of Cass Lake; 10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; many
nieces and nephews, and numerous relatives and friends; brother, William
(Judy) Henry of Minneapolis; sisters, Joyce (Walter) Yellowhammer of Minnea-
polis and Rena Vizenor of Mahnomen; and seven half brothers and sisters.
She was preceded in death by her parents; grandparents; Jim and Susan
Burnette; brother, Gordon Henry Sr., and half-brothers, Virgil Fairbanks and
Robert Fairbanks.



