2023-10-22 06:00:00
BISMARCK, N.D. — Rosemarie Myrdal, the second woman to serve as North Dakota’s lieutenant governor, has died. She was 94.
Myrdal died Oct. 11 in Grafton due to old age, said state Sen. Janne Myrdal, her daughter-in-law. Funeral and burial services were held Monday at Pioneer Church in Gardar.
“She had her garden, and she ate healthy, and she ground her own wheat from the farm, and she lived the North Dakota way,” Janne Myrdal, a Republican, told The Associated Press. “I think this is going to reverberate throughout the state because she was one of a kind, for sure, of a public servant.”
Rosemarie Myrdal was lieutenant governor to former Gov. Ed Schafer. The two Republicans served from 1992-2000. Myrdal had previously served in the state House of Representatives from 1985-92. She was a teacher and a mother of five.
As lieutenant governor, Myrdal presided over the state Senate and was first in the line of succession for the governor’s seat. Her daughter-in-law said Myrdal was respected by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Schafer and Myrdal did not seek reelection in 2000.
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