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Clement J Knoll
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Birth: Apr. 4, 1920
Death: Jan. 11, 2001
Obituary Bismarck Tribune (January 11, 2001)
Clement J. "Dusty" Knoll, 80, 308 Third Ave. N.E., Mandan, died Jan. 11, 2001, in his home. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mandan, with the Rev. Jacob Schumacher officiating. Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, rural Mandan, with military rites by Mandan Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 707 and American Legion Post 40.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday at Weigel Funeral Home, Mandan, where a rosary will be said at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, followed by a parish vigil at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue at the funeral home until service time Monday.
Clement J. "Dusty" Knoll was born April 4, 1920, in Mandan, the son of Michael and Barbara (Kuntz) Knoll. He attended St. Joseph School and Mandan High School. Dusty went to work for Irv Young servicing juke boxes in 1939. In 1941, he went to work for Northern Pacific Railroad in Mandan, and worked at various jobs in the Mandan Roundhouse. On March 23, 1942, Dusty was inducted into the armed forces at Fort Snelling in Minnesota. He was then assigned to a cadre to form the 90th Infantry division at Camp Barkley, Texas, near Abilene. On Oct. 3, 1942, Dusty returned to Mandan on furlough and on Oct. 5, 1942, he married his childhood sweetheart, Frances Stumpf. After he completed radio electronics school in Fort Sill, Okla., Dusty rejoined his unit in Indio, Calif. Following this, he was shipped to Fort Dix, N.J., and assigned overseas to London, England. While in London the 345th was sent to Wales for subsequent departure for France on D Day, June 6, 1944, where he was assigned to General Patton's third army. Dusty was severely wounded in Belgium in the Battle of the Bulge and was subsequently awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. After a long recuperation in France and England, he returned to the United States where he was honorably discharged on Oct. 20, 1945. He then returned to Mandan and his job at the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Dusty was a member of American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans Club.
Dusty served as chairman of the joint Legislative Board of Brotherhoods as well as the legislative representative for United Transportation Union Local 1344 in Mandan. He was instrumental in the promotion of railroad safety laws and alleviating the railroad boxcar shortage in the state. In 1968, Dusty was elected as a director of the Northern Pacific Benefits Association Yellowstone District. Dusty worked for the railroad for 42 years and retired in June 1982.
Dusty is survived by his wife, Frances; three sons and two daughters-in-law, Leland, Signal Hill, Calif., Michael and Diane, West Liberty, Iowa, and Mark and Barbara, Richfield, Minn.; one daughter and son-in-law, Lynette and Dalles Waldner, Lake Vermilion, Minn.; four grandchildren, Jodie, Rikka, Christopher and Dustin; two great-grandchildren, Madisen and Josie Mae; one brother and sister-in-law, John and Ethel, Duluth, Minn.; and one sister and brother-in-law, Anna Marie and Hubert Plymale, Townsend, Mont.
Clement was preceded in death by his parents; five brothers; and two sisters. (Weigel Funeral Home)
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Frances M Stumpf Knoll (1921 - 2010)
Burial:
North Dakota Veterans Cemetery
Mandan
Morton County
North Dakota, USA
Plot: Section E Site 039
Created by: DonZas
Record added: Aug 20, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 40912602
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1920 - 2001 (80 years)