Linda Blees
May 4, 2023
Send Sympathy Gifts
Linda Ann (Kalina) Blees, 79, passed away on Thursday, May 4th while under Hospice care at Augusta Place in Bismarck, ND.
Memorial Services for Linda will be held in Bowman, ND at the Bowman Methodist church on Friday, June 23rd at 11:00 am. There will be a Family and Friends Service on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at the Bowman Methodist Church beginning at 7:00 pm.
Arrangements by Krebsbach & Kulseth Funeral Services in Bowman.
Linda Ann (Kalina) Blees, age 79, formerly of Bowman passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 4th, 2023 under Hospice Care at Augusta Place in Bismarck, ND after a recent illness.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, June 23rd at 11am at the United Methodist Church in Bowman. A friends and family service will take place on Thursday, June 22nd at 7pm at the United Methodist Church.
Linda was born December 3rd, 1943 in Bowman, the first of four children to Ben and Myla (Jorgenson) Kalina. She was a 1961 graduate of Bowman High School and attended one quarter at DSC. She then moved to Minneapolis to work. Linda married her former classmate, best friend and love of her life Terrance (Terry) Blees on June 5th 1965 and they made their home on the Blees farm north of Bowman. She worked at the Gateway restaurant and later as the Bowman High School secretary for 30 years while raising their two sons, Paul and Jeff. She was very involved in their farm and ranch operation, caring for dairy and beef cows, chickens, and sheep as well as helping with crop farming as needed. Linda always grew a large garden and loved plants and flowers of all kinds, especially the wild crocuses growing in the pastures near her home. She had a passion for reading and often had multiple books going at the same time. It is said she had read every book in the Bowman public and school libraries before graduating from high school and also read the dictionary and the Bible from cover to cover.
In November of 2021, Linda moved to Bismarck and resided at Edgewood Vista which allowed her to be closer to family. While there she still considered Bowman her home.
Linda loved her family more than anything. She enjoyed every minute spent with her grandkids teaching them about life on the farm, attending music and sporting events, picking wildflower bouquets, painting stick horses, sharing her love of books, star gazing and planning all sorts of fun adventures. She was so proud of her grand babies, and talked frequently for all to hear of how incredibly smart they were.
Linda had a heart of gold and lived to help and do things for others. She was known to take home bound community members out for meals or make and deliver meals to their homes. She loved to help plan extended family get togethers, make our favorite oatmeal cookies in double and triple batches for snacks on our drives home and welcomed into her home any person or animal in need. Linda had such a love for animals and raised many special pets over the years. She took in a stray dog, Rusty, who turned out to be the perfect companion for her over the last several years.
Linda was survived by her sons, Paul (Lori) and Jeff (Kris) both of Bismarck. Her grandchildren, Jordan (Nicole) Blees, Lincoln, ND and Brett Blees, Bismarck. Megan (Joel) Porter, Nashville, TN, Ryan Blees (Sadie), and Adam Blees, Bismarck. Her great-grandson, August Porter, Nashville.
Her brother, Rich (Dianna) Kalina, Florence, AZ. Her sisters, Jeanette Kalina, Baker MT, and Faye (Rick) Hegg, Ft. Myers, FL. Many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Welcoming her to heaven, are husband, Terry, her parents, Ben and Myla mother and father-in-law Bill and Isabelle (Johnson) Blees, brothers-in-law, Wayne and Gerald Blees, and sisters-in-law Ellen Blees and Pat Netland, nephew Samuel Keirle and many aunts and uncles.
A big thank you to the caring staff at Edgewood Vista, Sanford Health and Augusta Place for the wonderful care and support provided to Linda and her family during this very difficult time.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Krebsbach and Kulseth Funeral Home in Bowman.
To plant Memorial Trees in memory of Linda Blees, please click here to visit our Sympathy Store.
Print Obituary
