Orville Duane Ramsey, the son of Alvin and Ruth (Knutson) Ramsey was born February 4, 1935, at McHenry, North Dakota. Orville attended school at Revere and Helena No. 2, and graduated from Cooperstown Public School in 1953. He enrolled in Pre-engineering at the North Dakota State College of Science in 1953 and 1955. He enlisted in the Army in February 1957, and was stationed at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Worms, Germany until March 1960. Orville then attended the North Dakota State University in Fargo and majored in business economics and graduated in 1969.
Connie Mae Bork was born in Cooperstown, North Dakota, July 3, 1945, the only child of Conrad and Emma (Larson) Bork of Cooperstown. She attended Cooperstown Public School and graduated in 1963. Connie attended the North Dakota State College of Science and graduated with an advanced stenography degree in 1964. She worked as a secretary in Fargo until the birth of their first child in 1972.
Orville was a partner in Ramsey-Saxerud Construction for 20 years until he bought the business which is now Ramsey Sand and Gravel of Hannaford. Orville and Connie were married December 7, 1968, in Cooperstown. Orville began farming in 1973, when he purchased the Fred Adams farm northwest of Hannaford.
The Ramsey family consists of Jill Maree, born October 15, 1972; Shanna Rae, born February 3, 1975; Stacey Kae, born February 25, 1976, and Collette Jayne, born January 15, 1979. The girls attended Lincoln and Clara Barton Elementary in Fargo until 1982, when the family moved to Hannaford where the girls attend Hannaford Public School.
Shauna Janel Roy was born June 4, 1984; and Jeffrey Steven Roy was born August 3, 1988.
Source: Hannaford Area History North Dakota Centennial 1889 - 1989 Page 224