Magdalen "Maggie" Breen Wanner, 86, of Bowman, ND, passed away on November 10, 2014 at the Southwest Healthcare Long Term Center in Bowman.

Memorial Services for Maggie will be at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 13, 2014 at the Krebsbach and Kulseth Funeral Home Chapel in Bowman. Burial will be in the St. Charles Catholic Cemetery at a later date.

Maggie was born July 6, 1928, the fifth child of Frank and Hermina (Leferink) Slag in Bismarck N.D. The Slags immigrated from Holland and homesteaded 5 miles north of Bismarck where they had a dairy farm. Maggie and her older sister Jean, spent most of their early years living with the sisters at the convent of St. Mary's. Maggie was proud to be a first generation American, and never knew her grandparents. She never had an aunt around and her uncle who was a pastor at the Catholic Church in Bismarck died when she was very small. In high school she was Father Cassedy's secretary, typing his sermons and keeping track of the cemetery residents. Father Cassedy married Maggie and Donald Breen on July 6, 1946. This was her birthday and her parents anniversary. Through the years they took in extra kids as well as raising 11 of their own. When health kept Don from farming, they moved to Washburn, Beulah, Dickinson and Bowman where she resided the last 40 plus years. Through the years Maggie was a township secretary, a Brownie and Girl Scout leader, a Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader, a 4-H leader and member of the 4-H board, a CCD teacher, a church choir director, an advocate for the handicapped, a member of the governors council for the handicapped, and an ARC member and Board member. Several summers she was a helper and counselor at Camp Recreation in Richardton. She helped start food pantries and farmers markets, serving on their boards. In the early 70's Maggie decided to join the social work force mainly working with the disadvantaged and elderly. She was custodian for the Bowman School System and loved working with the kids. In later years she worked with the Title 1 program. Her life has been spent loving kids, caring for them, being a mom or grandmother for anyone who needed her. In 1984 she married Louis Wanner, postmaster at New England. Together they spent years working at the Fish and Wildlife Camps, Maggie as cook, counselor, and camp nurse and Louie teaching kids how to fish and hunt. Maggie would like to be remembered in the birds, flowers, weeds, and bugs. She took in stray dogs and cats giving them a home and loving care. Her pet coon went everywhere with her. Her love was Goose. Beautiful, Smart, Funny Goose. If it was a part of nature, it was her love.

She is survived by 3 brothers, John (Marion) Slag, Hebron, N.D.-Tom (Leona) Slag,
Alamagordo N.Mex.-Victor (Sue) Slag, Fargo,N.D, and a brother-in-law Orville Hesch, Devils Lake, N.D. She was preceded in death by her parents, both her husbands, her sister, Jean
And her husband L.G.Hanson, Granby, Mo., her brother Joseph and his wife Leone,
Wimbledon,N.D., her sister Mary, Devils Lake N.D. and her brother Robert, Los Angeles, Cal.
Three children preceded her in death: Sharon and her husband Tom Frank, Beulah, N.D. Toni (Jerry) Wolf, Scranton ND, and William.

She is survived by Kathy Breen, Bismarck, ND, Jackie (Clark) Perman, Electric City, Wash,
David Breen, Scranton ND, Vicki (Steve ) Theilen, Bowman, ND, Mark (Roxanne) Breen, Dickinson, ND, Mary (Mick) Lewton, Dickinson ND, Leon (Doris Paulson) Breen, Bismarck, ND, John (Sheri) Breen, Bowman, ND, 25 grandkids, many great grandkids, and countless nieces and nephews.

She also leaves many special friends too numerous to name.

Krebsbach and Kulseth Funeral Services in charge of the arrangements.