Memorial services set for former Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist

Photo by: Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting
Photo by: Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting

(Moorhead, MN) -- Memorial services have been set for former Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist.

Visitation will be held the morning of August 15th at Nemzek Hall from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Minnesota State University Moorhead, with services to follow. Internment will take place at Riverside Cemetery in Moorhead.

Bergquist, who served as Clay County Sheriff from 2002 to 2019, and was also a Moorhead D.A.R.E. officer and member of the Dilworth Fire Department for roughly 40 years, died last Friday from Alzheimer's-Dementia. He was 64-years-old.