Irma Pribyl, 83, Dickinson, died Wednesday, June 14, at St. Benedict?s Health Center, Dickinson. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a. m. , Thursday, June 22, 2006 at Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Dickinson, with Fr. Jeff Zwack celebrating. Interment will be in the St. Patrick?s Cemetery, Dickinson. Visitation will be 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. , Wednesday, June 21, 2006, at Price-Murphy Funeral Home with a vigil service at 7 p. m. led by Deacon Ron Wolberg. Irma Boehler was born April 9, 1923 in Hebron to John and Margaret (Frank) Boehler. She received her elementary and high school education at Hebron and then attended Dickinson Teachers College. Irma taught at the Heart River District Country School south of Richardton. She then went to Cincinnati, OH to visit a sister, but decided to stay there. She did defense work during World War II and was employed as an inspector at the Herschede Hall Clock Co. who made parts and assembled anti-aircraft telescopes. She then attended business college and graduated from the Salmon P. Chase College of Business at Cincinnati. After graduation, she worked at Wright Patterron Field in Dayton, OH and was a secretary there until 1945 when she returned to Hebron due to illness in the family. On August 26, 1946 she married George Binek of Dickinson. They owned and operated the two Binek Caf?s for many years, until George?s retirement. They spent the winters in Sebring, FL. George died on January 6, 1966. Irma marred Ed Pribyl on November 22, 1969 and they lived on the Pribyl farm for ten years. They moved into Dickinson in 1979 and have lived there since, while spending several winters in Chandler, Arizona. Irma is survived by: her husband, Edmund, Dickinson; three step-children, Elaine (Robert) Dvorak, Dickinson, Ellen (Tim) Tannehill, Sacramento, CA and Esley ?Butch? (Connie) Pribyl, Dickinson; three step-grandchlidren, Douglas (Sharon) Dvorak, Spring Hills, KS, Daryl (friend Kandice) Dvorak, Dickinson, and DeLori (Kelly) Baer, West Fargo, ND; 12 step-great grandchildren; three sisters, Esther Sailer, Dickinson, Isabelle Jones, San Diego, CA, and Donna Hildre, Cloquet, MN, and one brother, Victor L. Boehler, Mt. Home, ID. She was preceded in death by: her parents, John and Margaret Boehler; sisters, Matilda Johnson, Elsie Metzger, Freida Rodgers, Alma Dassinger and Ann Graney; three brothers, Jake Boehler, Walter Boehler and Milton Boehler, and her first husband, George Binek.
Burial Date: June 22, 2006
Funeral Home Dickinson, ND
Funeral Mass: Thursday, Queen of Peace Catholic Church