Anna Marie “Ann” (Hager) Breckheimer, 81, lifelong resident of Devils Lake, N.D., passed away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, in her home.

Anna Marie, the daughter of John Leo and Angeline Rose (Leiphon) Hager, was born April 10, 1944, in Devils Lake. She and her older brother, Peter, and younger sisters, Dorothy and Donna, grew up on the family farm in Noonan Township and attended the Noonan Country School until the family moved in 1954 to a farm just north of Devils Lake. The family stopped farming the next year and settled south of Devils Lake in a home sheltered by towering oaks and overlooking East Bay.

She graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in 1962 and earned her LPN credentials in 1964 from Lake Region College Nursing School. Ann first met her future husband, Cha

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