Grace Hage

DUE TO WEATHER, THE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR GRACE THAT WAS GOING TO BE HELD ON MONDAY IN WEST FARGO HAS BEEN CANCELED AND FAMILY WILL HAVE A PRIVATE BURIAL SERVICE.

               
   In a sweet hour of prayer and song, the angels came to bring Grace Hage home for an audience with her Lord and Savior, and a reunion with husband Cliff and family that went to Heaven before her. Her life journey and mission ended December 23, 2019 as her eternal life began.

   Patricia Grace Jonnie was born February 26, 1923, in Dominion City, Manitoba, Canada to John and Mary Jonnie (Littlejohn). She grew up on the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation and attended government schools in Portage la Prairie and Brandon. She was a hockey player and established life-long friends with classmates. After ending her schooling, Grace immigrated to the Red River Valley - Minnesota side and settled in Halstad. She worked in the potato fields and later at the café in the Halstad Hotel, where she met Cliff Hage.

   Grace and Cliff were married in 1952 and started a family with son Clayton and daughter Tanis in Fargo, North Dakota. Grace worked as a housecleaner, mattress maker, and welder while being a homemaker. They moved to Halstad in the mid-1960s, and moved back to Fargo in the mid-1970s where she completed her high school GED diploma.

   She was at home in the Church of the Nazarene, witnessing her Christian faith to all who would listen and to some who wouldn’t. After Cliff passed away and she retired, Grace moved in with Tanis and then back to Dominion City, where she became a tribal elder. Grace was involved in elder housing and health care, and education in her new capacity. She was the oldest elder at the time of her death, adopting many of the tribe who called her “Auntie Grace” over the years.

   Grace is survived by two sons, Curtis Jonnie of Winnipeg and Clay Hage (Cathy) of Moreno Valley, California and a daughter, Tanis Wichmann (Steve) of Ottertail, Minnesota. She leaves eleven grandchildren: Elliot Jonnie, Tanya Leary, Ahzbec Jonnie, Micah Jonnie, Audra Anderson, Linsey Hage, Thomas Lerner, Joe Wichmann, David S. Wichmann, Darcy Nemback, and Jeremy Nemback. Seventeen great-grandchildren will miss her Christian witness and love. She leaves one sister, Irene Daisy Althoff, and a host of nieces and nephews.

   She was preceded in death by her husband, Cliff; her parents; brothers, Frank, Gilbert, and Wallace; sisters Alice, Rowena, and Dorothy, and grandchildren Noelle Jonnie and Michael P. Wichmann.

   Grace will be interred alongside Cliff at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Fargo, and a celebration of life will be conducted by the Roseau River Anishanabe First Nation in Ginew, Manitoba, Canada on December 27.
     

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