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- Michael Marriage
Funeral services for Michael Rick Marriage will be held at 10:00 AM Wednesday, January 20. Pastor
David C. Curtright will officiate at the service at The Barn in Flaxville; interment will be in Whitetail
Cemetery. Casketbearers will be Brent Hurst, Lopaka Kins, Joey Kurtz, Randy Lasar, Kurt McCoy,
Shawn Page, Jason Schmidt, Brian Simonson, Scott Wangerin, and Dallas Quam; Honorary
Bearers will be the members of the Snowmobile Club, the Darts Leagues of Daniels and Sheridan
Counties, as well as all of Mike's family and friends. Ushers will be Kermit & Charlotte Sorensen
and James & Terri Hansen. Mike passed away Thursday afternoon, January 14.
Mike was born at Plentywood December 2, 1973, the son of Rick and Debbie (Zeidler) Marriage.
Growing up on the family farm in the Whitetail community, Mike played sports, especially basketball
(he was a Michael Jordan fan!), baseball, and hunting. His toys grew as he did, whether four-
wheelers, snowmobiles, or farm machinery, they just got bigger and more expensive as he grew
up! He graduated from Flaxville High School and briefly attended college in Glendive, but as soon
as possible headed home to Whitetail to farm with his father. Since they were teammates in Little
League, Sherri Kurtz was among his “best friends,” and then high school sweethearts, and then
they were married June 12, 1999 in Flaxville. They lived on the family farm in Whitetail until moving to
Plentywood in February, 2005.
kids, Megan and Tate. Always happiest staying near home in Daniels and Sheridan counties, Mike was outgoing and sociable .... to
know him was to like him, and his close circle of friends and family remember him as “always easy to get in trouble with”, but his
infectious grin and rolling laugh always seemed to make it worthwhile and everyone always seemed to make the most of it. Frugal to his
core, Mike was a meticulous perfectionist about his farming, studying, thinking, planning, and wearing out calculators to find the best way
to care for his lands and crops. Mike read constantly, and was known as very knowledgeable about farming, and especially farm
chemicals.
Michael’s survivors include his wife, Sherri and two children, Megan and Tate, of Plentywood, as well as by his parents, Rick and Debbie
Marriage of Whitetail and his father- and mother-in-law, Greg and Doris Kurtz of Flaxville. He is also survived by a sister, Michelle
Marriage of San Diego, California and her son, James Roberts, of Minot; and a brother, Chad Marriage and his wife, Jennie, of Missoula.
He is also survived by sister-in-law, Kimberly Keysor and her husband Ben, and their son, Collin, of Billings; and brother-in-law Robert
Kurtz and his wife Brandy, of Havre. He is also survived by his grandmothers, Dorothy Marriage and Katie Zeidler; and by Sherri’s
grandparents, Bob Kurtz, and Alma Jensen, all of Plentywood. Besides his grandfathers, Les Marriage and Barr Zeidler, family
members preceding him in death include Sherri’s sister, Nichelle Kurtz, in 1993.
Fulkerson Funeral Home of Plentywood has charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, Michael’s family suggests contributions to a trust
fund being established for his children.
| 1973 - 2010 |
Remembering Mike