Legler "said over and over, when I die I want my obituary to just say 'Doug died,'" his daughter, Janet Stoll, said. The Fargo Forum obliged the man's request.

"(Other people's obituaries) would say 'he was the president of this, a director of this' and dad would say, 'What, couldn't they hold down a job?'" Stoll told The Forum.

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Legler was a kind, hard-working man, but Stoll said her father's sense of humor is what really defined him.

He was also a talented singer who had passion for country music, the paper reported.

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