Carl Traeholt
Carl Traeholt passed away at the age of 87 on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Glasgow at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital.
He was born on Sept. 22, 1937, in Scobey to Einar anf Margarethe (Ibsen) Traeholt. He was the fourth born of six children. They moved to Wolf Point when he was 4 years old.
During high school, he worked at the bowling alley setting pins and also worked at all three theaters as a projectionist. In 1950, his dad bought the farm where he worked with his dad and brothers. After high school, Carl went to College at MSU in Bozeman. He later joined the Army and was stationed in Korea. After being honorably discharged, he moved back to Wolf Point.
During this time, he worked at the Appelgren
Ranch. He still continued to work as a projectionist where he met the love of his life, Cheryll Nelson. She worked as a bookkeeper for the theaters. They got married April 8, 1962. They moved to the farm north of Wolf Point in the early 1960s where he farmed. To this union, three children were born, Sonja Friesen, Kyle Traeholt and Wade Traeholt.
He incorporated a hog operation with the farming and raised pigs for many years. During the winter months in the mid 1980s, he went to work with his brother Arne doing taxes. In the 1990s, he partnered the farm with his son Wade and they continued farming together until his passing.
He was on various boards consisting of First Lutheran Church, Farmers Elevator and Farm Credit Services.
He is survived by his wife, Cheryll of 63 years; daughter, Sonja (Stan) Friesen; sons, Kyle (Val) Traeholt and Wade (Jonisa) Traeholt; 14 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and another on the way; brothers, Jens (Jan) Traeholt and Don (Eileen) Traeholt; brothers-in-law, Dwight Baker and Dennis (Karen) Nelson; and numerous nephews and nieces.
He was proceeded in death by his mom and dad; sister, Ida; brother, Arne and his wife Dorothy; sister, Mary; mother- and father-in-law, Helen and Nieles Nelson; brother- and sister-in-law, Robert and Alda Olson; and nephews, Mark Baker, Chris Traeholt and Alan Traeholt.
A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, at the First Lutheran Church in Wolf Point. Interment will follow at the Greenwood Cemetery. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel of Wolf Point has been entrusted with the arrangements.
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