Alma Pluth, 91, Dickinson, died Friday, August 10, 2018 at St. Luke’s Home, Dickinson. Alma’s funeral service will be at 10 a.m., Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at Ladbury Funeral Service, Dickinson, with Rev. Dick Rinearson officiating. Interment will follow at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan. Visitation will be one hour prior to services on Wednesday.
Alma was born in Hebron, to Wella and Rosina (Sayler) Heinle on April 20, 1927. She was the youngest of ten children and lived on a farm south of Hebron.
After graduating from Hebron High School in 1944, she attended Dickinson State College. She was a rural school teacher in her home area for four years. After moving to Bismarck, she worked in Civil Service work for the Corps of Engineers Garrison Dam District (at Fort Lincoln), which was at the time building the Garrison Dam. Three years later, she married her high school classmate, John Pluth, on January 19, 1951. After taking several years to raise her family, she found employment at the Dickinson State College Relations and Alumni office for twenty years and enjoyed working there with young people.
When not working, she enjoyed music, playing piano, working with flowers and especially reading and crocheting (making afghans for everyone in the family as well as many others) as life became more quiet. She belonged to Homemakers Club and church circles for many years and sang in church choir.
She loved her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren dearly and she and John took many trips to see them all as well as traveling quite extensively in the US, including Hawaii.
Alma is survived by her children, Renee (Doug) Klein, Deb (Pete) Mirabito, Karen (Jim) Sinness and Jeff (Michelle) Pluth; son-in-law, Alvin Settje; grandchildren, Becky (Matt) Yahna, Melanie Summers, Jennifer (Ryan) Stelter, Andrew (Eunyoung) Mirabito, Mark (Devan) Mirabito, Kristin (Alex) Billings and Stephanie (Jon) Forness; great-grandchildren, Brady and Taylor Yahna; Kendra and Erika Jones; Luke, Kinley and Emerie Stelter; Anthony and Evan Mirabito; Andrew and Logan Billings; and Haley and Noah Forness; and special friends, Vicki and Jim Haaland.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John, June 1, 2002; daughter, Bev Settje, June 7, 2015; four brothers, Alvin, Jacob, Herbert and Reinhold; five sisters, Elsie, Annie, Lydia, Ruth and Lorraine.
