Morton Fenstad was born in Valley City, North Dakota and graduated from the Grand Prairie High School. He married Marguerite M. Rutherford on July 11, 1942 at Tacoma, Washington where Morton was in the military service.

He had joined the National Guard at Valley City in October of 1940 and was mobilized April 1, 1941. He served with the 188th Field Artillery, later designated as the 957th Field Artillery Battalion. He spent twenty-two months overseas and fought in five major campaigns in Europe.

In the fall of 1946 he accepted a position with the Page, North Dakota elevator. They later moved to Fingal, North Dakota where he is the manager of the Miller Elevator in Fingal.

Marguerite is a graduate of the Page, North Dakota High School and is a graduate of the Mercy Hospital Nurses School in Valley City, receiving her diploma in 1940.

Morton and Marguerite have three children: Terry Morton, Roger Lee and Loree Allice. Terry graduated from the Page High School and from the North Dakota State University with a Master's Degree in Architecture from Texas A & M University. He is a career officer with the Air Force and is stationed at the Pentagon in Washington. He married Carolyn Burke, a registered nurse, from Dayton, Ohio.

Roger graduated from Fingal High School and received his degree in Civil Engineering from N.D.S.U. He was employed in Kansas City by an engineering firm but is now with Moore Engineering, Inc. of West Fargo, North Dakota. He married Janice Petrowitz of Fingal, a graduate of Valley City State College. They have one daughter, Nicole Maria.

Loree Allice graduated from Fingal High School and is now a junior at N.D.S.U. majoring in child development and family relations.

The Fenstad family are members of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Fingal and are active in not only church affairs but community affairs as well.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 69