A woman blessed. A love remembered.

Eleanor M. (Sieverding) Forsberg (age 101 years) passed peacefully at 9:00 in the evening on Thursday, March 5th, 2026. She was at "The Gardens" of Wheelock Terrace, Hanover, NH, as she and her husband Fritz had planned for her to receive care for Alzheimer's disease there after Fritz's death (August 2020). The location was close to her daughter Rita and son-in-law Jerry Love and their family.

Eleanor is survived by Rita, Jerry, Garrett, Hope, Drake, Ginger, David, Fayvor, Emi, Niko, Maia, Nolan, Chapel, Bodin, Kade, Tre, Aubrey, Elizabeth, Quinlan, Tavia, Merriden, Echo, Nick, Orlo, and Everett and will be dearly missed.

Eleanor Sieverding was one of twelve children born to Elizabeth and Barney (Ben) Sieverding on a farm near Epiphany, SD, on June 15, 1924. In her teenage years, Eleanor joined her older siblings in Idaho. She helped the WWII effort by working in the Kellogg, Idaho, mining area's smelter and married shortly after Fritz was discharged from the Army Air Corps.

Eleanor and Fritz resided in Pinehurst, Idaho, where extended family continued to be their priority—both Sieverding siblings' families and the Forsberg families. Eleanor prided herself on working alongside Fritz in building seven homes in the Silver Valley, and found fulfillment in her excellence as a homemaker and mother, as was traditional in the 1950s. She lived vivaciously by applying her "Ma's" can-do attitude with her love for children of the neighborhood and for those in her foster care. She enjoyed celebrating heritage and holidays with many traditions. Her "Pa's" strong faith carried through in all she did. Travel to South Dakota each summer kept the other Sieverding families close.

In their grandparenting years, she and Fritz spent six weeks each summer enjoying NH farm life with their seven grandchildren, baking cinnamon rolls, sewing tailor-made blue jeans, helping shuck peas, and fitting in in all ways. The Love family loved them for all the love they offered.

Eleanor and Fritz will be remembered by many as the couple who walked hand-in-hand. Their life was a celebration of "togetherness," and much of what can be said here is written in Fritz's story.