Ihry Insurance Team and History
- Over 40 Years of Experience
- Licensed in Multiple States
- Comprehensive Proposals Provided
Over 40 Years of Experience
Licensed in Multiple States
Comprehensive Proposals Provided
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Meet the Ihry Insurance Team
Whether your insurance needs are in your home, your business, or your fields, our team goes the extra mile to make a personal connection with each client so we can properly advise you on how to protect the most important assets in your life.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide superior insurance solutions for our clients to help manage their risk and protect their assets while maintaining the highest ethical standards of the insurance industry.
Our Roots
For over 40 years, Gary and Mary Ihry have built a solid reputation as the area’s most trusted insurance agency. Since 1982, Ihry Insurance Agency has been a household name providing insurance solutions for our clients. We are a local independent insurance agency with offices located across North Dakota and the Red River Valley. We are committed to the small-town concept that is living, working, and doing business in the communities we serve.
In December 2010, Ihry Insurance acquired Western Insurance, an independent insurance agency previously owned by Western State Bank. Western’s roots are similar to Ihry’s. The business started as a small rural company and has continued to grow based on its great reputation as honest, hardworking, and reliable people.
With the insurance industry constantly changing, Ihry Insurance takes pride in providing high-quality service to all our clients. We have exceptional staff and sub-agents who continue to educate themselves about changes in the industry. Our staff has the agricultural experience and vast knowledge to help minimize your risk and protect your assets.
Devils Lake
Kris Quam
Agent
Phone: 701-662-5027
Kris started in the insurance industry in 2002. She joined Ihry Insurance in 2012. Kris is originally from Bisbee, ND, and moved to Devils Lake in 2006 where she lives with her husband Christopher and 2 daughters Bailey and Emili. Kris enjoys spending time with family and playing volleyball and softball.
Bucket List: Travel from Coast to Coast
Keith Schwandt
Agent
Phone: 701-662-5027
Keith joined the Ihry team in 2023. Prior to working with Ihry, Keith spent 18 years working in emergency services working as a paramedic and Senior Patrolman for the Devils Lake Police Department. He then worked at a car dealership in Devils Lake as a Sales Manager.
Keith has been married to his wife, Lisa, for 29 years, has 3 children, and a new dog named Gus. In his free time you can find Keith riding his Polaris Ranger or doing his two favorite hobbies hunting and fishing.
Bucket List: Travel to Alaska with his wife for hunting and fishing adventures.
Michelle Roerick
Customer Service Representative
Phone: 701-662-5027
Michelle Roerick joined our team in September 2022 as a Customer Service Representative in Devils Lake. She has 24 years of office experience prior to coming here.
Michelle has been a resident of Devils Lake since 1997. She has 2 sons- Devan and Braydon.
In her spare time, she enjoys shopping, fishing, Bison football, and going for walks with her Grand dogs-Rico and OB.
Bucket list would be going to Rockefeller Center, New York City at Christmas and see the tree!
Hillsboro
Michael Kozojed
Agent
Phone: (701) 636-2875
Mike has worked at Ihry Insurance since 1991. Before getting into the insurance industry, Mike was in the grain, fertilizer, and chemical business.
Mike and his children own and operate a farm near Hillsboro, N.D. He enjoys spending time with his family and traveling. Mike’s life philosophy is to enter each day with the desire to enjoy life. If you do that, great things are bound to happen.
JR Ryberg
Director of Governmental Affairs
Phone: (701) 738-4001
JR is a graduate of the University of North Dakota. He has been in the insurance business for over 20 years and specializes in crop insurance and public policy outreach for Ihry Insurance.
JR lives in western North Dakota with his wife and daughter. His interests include politics, sports, traveling, and watching his daughter compete in her various activities.
Bucket List: Attend a major league baseball game in all 30 stadiums.
Teresa Miller
Customer Service Representative
Phone: (701) 636-2540
Teresa went to college at Mayville State University and got her Bachelor of Science degree in
Business Administration. She has been in the insurance business with Ihry Insurance for 9 years, specializing in Crop Insurance. Teresa also does the books for the family farms.
Teresa and her two boys (Bryce and Jacob) live on the family farm near Hillsboro. She enjoys
spending time with family and friends and going to the boy’s activities and sporting events.
Bucket List: To live life to the fullest and visit all 50 states.
Bethany Rentz
Agent
Phone: (701) 740-2983
Bethany joined Ihry Insurance in 2021 as a Crop Insurance Agent. She has been in the insurance industry since 2012. Prior to joining Ihry Insurance, she worked as a Claims Adjuster and most recently a Field Marketing Representative.
Bethany and her husband Jon live in Grand Forks, ND. She enjoys traveling, playing golf, and spending time with family and friends.
Bucket List: To attend a PGA Golf Tournament in Hawaii.
Hope
Shane Larck, CIC, AFIS, CPIA
Owner/Agent
Phone: (701) 945-2723
Shane has been in the insurance industry since 2000. He specializes in personal lines, crop and hail, farm, and life insurance. Shane holds designations of Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC), Certificed Professional Insurance Agent (CPIA) and Agribusiness and Farm Insurance Specialist (AFIS).
Shane and his wife, Jeri Anne, live in Hope, N.D. with their two daughters and one son. He enjoys spending time with his family, golfing, riding motorcycle, cooking, and going to the lake. Shane is also actively involved in the surrounding communities, including being the past Mayor of Page, ND, and a volunteer fireman and EMR on the ambulance squad. He has also served on numerous boards and committees including PIA of North Dakota, president of the church council, economic development boards, dollars for scholars, and the Hope Golf Course Board.
Shane has proudly explored all 50 States!
Bucket List: Visit the 7 Wonders of the World, 7 to go!
Kayla Elliott
Customer Service Agent
Phone: (701) 945-2723
Kayla Elliott joined Ihry Insurance Agency, Inc. as a Customer Service Representative in Page, ND. She most recently worked as a Customer Care Specialist at Bank of the West.
Kayla and her husband, Andy, live in Galesburg, ND. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, attending NDSU football games, reading, gardening, cooking, and fishing.
Bucket List: (1) Visit all 50 states (2) Attend at least one event in both the winter and summer Olympics.
Brenda Ihry
Customer Service Agent
Phone: (701) 945-2723
Brenda has been with Ihry Insurance since 2000.
Brenda and her husband Keith live in Hope. They have 6 grown children. Brenda enjoys spending time with her family and her grandchildren.
Bucket List: Travel the United States
Nancy Overland
Customer Service Agent
Phone: (701) 945-2723
Nancy has been with Ihry Insurance since 1990. She is a licensed agent and specializes in crop insurance.
Nancy and her husband John live on a farm near Hope, ND. They have two grown children and five grandchildren. Besides enjoying her time with family, Nancy helps out on the farm, and thinks running the combine and being in the field are the best of times. Her favorite time of year is harvest!
Bucket List: Watch her grandchildren grow old
Bekka Dahl
Customer Service Agent
Phone: (701) 945-2723
Bekka has been a part of the Ihry Insurance Team since March 2017. With a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Minnesota State University Moorhead along with her background in customer service and management, she brings knowledge and leadership to the Personal Lines & Farm Lines Customer Service Teams. Bekka is also a proud Graduate of the Dale Carnegie Course Skills for Success. She strives to ensure Ihry Insurance provides the most current, professional and friendly service to our customers.
Bekka lives near Page, ND with her husband and son. Outside of work, you can find her relaxing at the lake, reading a good book or cheering on her son.
McVille
Reed Ihry
Agent
Phone: (701) 322-5553
Reed Ihry was licensed in 2001, and started full time in 2009. He had 35 years of experience previously managing Grain elevators.
Reed resides at Red Willow Lake, Binford, ND and West Fargo. He has been happily married to his wife Michelle since 1975! They have two children, and Six grandchildren.
Besides spending time with Family and friends at the lake, Reed enjoys following Grandchildren events, Farming, and playing pickleball.
Bucket list:
1) Help Ihry Insurance be the best company for our clients, our employees, and for the companies that we represent!
2) Take time to spend with family.
3) Enjoy time away from work schedules and stay healthy!
Joni Aslakson
Customer Service Agent
Phone: (701) 322-5553
Joni joined the Ihry team in 2023 with expirence in various industries such as accounting, manufacturing, and logistics with customer service always being one of her top priorities.
Joni lives in Aneta, ND. She enjoys spending time with friends and family, being around the campfire, and pampering her two horses.
Bucket List: Attend National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.
Towner
Kristi Suchor
Agent
Phone: (701) 537-5942
Hello, my name is Kristi Suchor, and I started working for Ihry Insurance in 2014. As an Insurance agent, my primary focus is finding the right coverages to protect what you have worked so hard to achieve. Whether it be home, auto, business, health, life or other unique situations; it is my pleasure to help you find and understand the coverages that best fit your needs.
I am married to my husband Jerome and in our spare time, we enjoy camping, fishing, riding motorcycle and spending time with our 6 children and 13 grandchildren.
West Fargo
Dustin Ihry
Agent
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Dustin joined Ihry Insurance in 2011 and has over 10 years of experience in the insurance industry.
Dustin lives in West Fargo, ND with his wife, Keely. They have one daughter, Reagan, and one son, Beckett. Dustin likes going to the lake and watching his kids in their activities.
Bucket List: Travel to Italy with my wife.
Lon Ihry
Agent
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Lon joined the Ihry team in the summer of 2022 specializing in Personal and Commercial lines. Lon graduated from the University of Kansas in 2004 and is also a graduate of Dale Carnegie.
Lon lives in West Fargo with his wife Heidi and two children, Asher and Afton. In his free time, Lon can be spotted on the golf course or basketball court coaching his team to victory. Lon enjoys traveling, spending time with friends and family, and attending all of his children’s activites.
Jeff Swanson
Customer Service Agent
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Jeff and his wife, Kim, live in South Fargo, and they have two children. Their son is at college in Denver, while their daughter is at Davies High in Fargo.
Jeff graduated from MSUM with a degree in Music. In his spare time, he enjoys playing guitar and woodworking. Recently he combined those hobbies and started building guitars and has a growing collection.
Jeff is a member of the South Point Kiwanis where he started a program of donating ukuleles to elementary school music programs.
Bucket List: Going out to Red Rocks in Colorado with his guitar and playing on the stage.
Sr. Commercial Producer
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Devin Gaard has been in the insurance industry for more than 19 years. He specializes in commercial insurance, personal lines & life insurance. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.
He is the current President of Moorhead Youth Baseball, and a member of Optimist Club of Fargo. He earned his CIC designation from The Society of Certified Insurance Counselors.
Devin and his wife, Tory, live in Moorhead. They have three children and two dogs. He enjoys golfing, spending time at the lake, and watching his kids’ sporting events.
Bucket list: To golf at St. Andrews course in Scotland.
Cheryl Stevens
Commercial & Farm Account Executive
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Cheryl joined the Ihry Insurance team in November 2013 as a Customer Service Agent for Commercial Lines in West Fargo. She has been in the insurance industry since 1978 and has experience on both the insurance carrier side and the insurance agency side of the industry.
Cheryl was born and raised in Milbank, SD. She comes from a big family— five sisters and two brothers—and they all try to get together a couple of times each year. She also has two grown daughters, Angie and Brittany. Cheryl has 5 grandchildren.
In her spare time Cheryl enjoys spending time with family and friends, watching movies (especially Hallmark movies), crossword puzzles, putting together puzzles, playing board games and card games with grandkids.
Bucket List: Visit the East Coast
Annie Reincke, CISR
Customer Service Agent
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Annie joined the Ihry Insurance team in the spring of 2016 as a Customer Service Agent for Commercial Lines in West Fargo.
She has been in the insurance industry for over 13 years. Annie has an associate degree from the Colorado Institute of Art and has earned her CISR designation.
Annie lives in Moorhead, MN with her partner Dan. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, riding bike, traveling, and most of all spending time with her son Nevada.
Bucket List: Visit Ireland.
Customer Service Agent
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Channi has been in the insurance area for 10 years and counting.
Channi lives in Moorhead, MN.
She has three children and two cats that keep her busy, all of which have unique and different personalities, the youngest being the wildest. In her personal time, she likes to read, spend time with family and friends and soak up the sun at the lakes.
Bucket List: Buy an old Volks Wagon van and flip it into a camper to travel the contiguous United States.
Commercial Lines Account Executive
(701) 557-1727
I love insurance! Being that I have worked in the industry for 25+ years, I have enjoyed everything from underwriting to my passion of being a team member in the independent agency services here at Ihry Insurance! I graduated from MSUM with a major in Business Administration. My teenage son attends school West Fargo & we live in South Fargo. In my personal time I enjoy fishing, hunting, going to the lakes & enjoying quality time with friends and family!
Director of Benefits
Phone: (701) 557-1727
I would like to introduce myself, Brady Weisenberger. I was born and raised in Bismarck ND and graduated from Concordia College with a major in Criminal Justice and Communications in 1990. After college I pursued my passion of working with at risk adolescents while employed by Luther Hall (Lutheran Social Services). After 7 GREAT years of making a difference with our youth, I left to pursue my LOVE of Ice Cream and joined the sales TEAM of Schwan’s Ice Cream. I found a passion for sales, but after working door to door in one of the worst winters in Fargo history, it was time to find a new career inside.
I have worked in a sales and leadership role selling employee benefits for the past 25 years while focusing on service, strategies, and solutions for my clients. I have a tremendous amount of industry knowledge and enthusiasm for work site benefits. My focus has been helping to implement various sales strategies and management techniques to facilitate improved profit and increase sales volume with my clients. I have found my experience and knowledge in the insurance industry to be invaluable.
During my free time I enjoy spending time at the lake with family and friends. I have been married to Lori for 28 years and we have two boys (Brayden and Dawson). We are happy to call Fargo home
Bucket list:
Flying through the Bermuda Triangle “successfully”
Angela Ogilvie
Benefits Administration Coordinator
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Angela has only been in the insurance industry for a short while but comes to us with an extensive background in education, training, customer service, curriculum writing and organizational processes. Angela is excited to be a part of the Benefits Connect Team.
Along with the team, Angela strives to deliver professional, personalized service with a hometown flair.
Angela and her husband, Travis, live in Grand Rapids, MN with their son and two dogs. They also have a son whom just moved to Phoenix, AZ to start his career in insurance. When she’s not working behind the scenes at Ihry, you may find her in the scenes on stage performing dance or musical theater. Angela is also a volunteer fitness instructor at her local YMCA. Angela’s other interests include reading, hiking, swimming, biking, camping, traveling and relaxing with family and friends.
Customer Service Agent
(701) 557-1727
I grew up in Argusville on a farm shared with my grandparents. I spent my first year of college at North Dakota State before finishing my last three years at St. Johns University where I was a member of the football team. I graduated in 2022 with a degree in Communications.
I have been in the insurance business for almost 6 months now as a member of the Benefits team. I got into insurnace because my family has been small business owners in Fargo for the last 70+ years and I watched the struggles they experienced from lack of knowledge and help.
My goal is to communicate and educate business owners and employees on their benefit options. In my free time I like attending all types of sporting events, traveling to new places and working out.
My bucket List is to attend a Superbowl and NBA finals.
Jeremy Brendemuhl
Finance Manager
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Jeremy joined Ihry insurance in January 2019. He is an NDSU alum and has a bachelor’s degree in accounting. He has more than 15 years of accounting experience.
Jeremy lives in Horace, ND.
He enjoys fishing, golfing, and going to the lake.
Bucket List: A vacation to Bora Bora.
Sandy Oldham
Office Administrator
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Sandy has been with Ihry Insurance (previously Western Insurance) since 2002 and has over 19 years in the insurance industry.
Sandy and her husband live in West Fargo. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, spending time outdoors, and gardening.
She is passionate about Ihry Insurance and making clients know they are important and valued.
Emily Fraki
Customer Service Agent
Phone: (701) 557-1727
This is Emily's first job in the insurance industry, but she has years of customer service experience to help her role as a CSR. She graduated from Minnesota State Community and Technical College in May of 2020 with an AAS in Business.
Emily lives in Fargo, ND.
In the summer, she enjoys spending as much time as she can outside. You’ll find her exploring the woods with her dogs, relaxing on the lake, or sitting around a bonfire with family and friends. In the winter, she like finding new recipes to try and planning her next adventure.
Bucket List: Visiting every national park.
Agent
Phone: (701) 557-1727
Cell Phone: (701) 552-2101
Russ has been with Ihry Insurance Agency since June 2012, specializing in both crop insurance and property and casualty insurance. Russ began his career as a crop adjuster in the late 1980s. He later decided to become an insurance agent and received his license in 1994. Russ has been involved in organizations such as the Professional Insurance Agents of North Dakota, the Gardner Fire Department, and the Valley Lions Club. He’s been nominated twice for the “Agent of the Year” award from the Professional Insurance Agents of North Dakota.
Russ and his wife, Janet, live in Gardner, ND, and have two daughters, Gretchen and Lauren. Outside of work, Russ loves to hunt and fish, watch racing (from the local level to Nascar), and spend time with his family.
Bucket List: See my girls graduate college
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