Gregory L. Culver

Gregory L. Culver, 69, of Stanton, ND passed away Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at CHI St. Alexius Medical Center, Bismarck, ND. Services will be held at 10:00 AM MT/11:00 AM CT at Marshall Lutheran Church, Marshall, ND on Saturday, February 21, 2026 with Pastor Dennis Ristvedt officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church.

Gregory LeRoy Culver was born September 19, 1956, in Fort Collins, CO to Clair and Lois Thompson Culver. He was a small baby weighing in at just over 6 pounds. This however did not indicate how “big” he would become in his life on this earth.

He traveled with his family around the country to settle wherever his father’s posting as a border patrol officer took the family.  He called Yuma, AZ his home whenever he was asked in later years. He went to high school in Yuma and graduated in 1974. He worked various jobs there as a young man. After high school came the decision to go to college. It seemed that sky diving took precedence over schoolwork for a while. He eventually settled into a law enforcement administration and biological sciences course for pre-med.

Greg married and moved to Guadalajara, Mexico to complete his family practice medical degree in 1983. His oldest son Brandon was born there.  For residency Greg chose Minot, ND with the UND family practice program. He could hunt and fish there, which was an added benefit. While in Minot, two more children, Amanda (Asher) and Casey, joined the family. 

 After residency, Greg moved to Garrison, ND for a job as a family practice physician and surgeon. He later moved to Cando, ND and worked at the Towner County Medical Center for many years.    

He married Rosemary Knutt in 1996. He continued to work in Cando until they moved to Alaska in 2010. There he practiced what he called “frontier medicine”. He added the title of Emergency Room Physician to his resume while there.

God tapped Greg on the shoulder and called him as a child of God. He started a Beyond the River Academy course for second career students. The design of the course was to place clergy in small, rural communities with congregations of less than 50 individuals. He became an ordained pastor in 2019 from the Epiphany District of the LCMC.

He and Rosemary moved back to North Dakota and settled into Stanton where once again the hunting and fishing were a semi-priority. He was fortunate to find a great congregation in Marshall, ND. He served them until his failing health forced him to request that a new minister be found for the congregation. Although he had a genius level IQ, part of his gift was to tell a complicated story in a simplified manner. This was a plus for the people who heard him “teach” new ways to look at the world. He started this in medicine, but perfected it in ministry.

He also added these accolades to those previously mentioned: a law enforcement degree with a criminology minor, an anthropology degree, a minor in Spanish, an auctioneer, an FFA pilot, an ultralight pilot and examiner in ultralight piloting. He was a commercial pilot and instructor in hot air ballooning, an author, an artist, a painter, and sculptor. Add to that an exhibitionist in parachuting. He even dug for dinosaur bones near Marmarth, ND.

He was preceded in death by his father; his mother; two brothers, Gary and Glen; and a sister, Gail.

He is survived by his wife, Rosemary; his children, Brandon (Lindsey) Culver, Asher/Amanda Culver, and Casey Culver; two stepsons, Matthew (Amanda) Knutt, Joshua (Emily) Knutt; 10 grandchildren; two nieces, Kaitlyn Phylow, Kori Phylow and son Phylow Hartley; and nephew Ryan Culver.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to North Dakota Adult and Teen Challenge, Inc, CHI Hospice at Home in Bismarck, ND, and to Marshall Lutheran Church.

Arrangements are conducted by Barbot Funeral Home, Beulah and Hazen.

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