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Elsie Lehmkuhl Cordes
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Birth: Jun. 11, 1904
Oliver County
North Dakota, USA
Death: Aug. 28, 1997
New Salem
Morton County
North Dakota, USA
Elsie Cordes, 93, Center, died Aug. 28, 1997, in the New Salem nursing home. Services will be held at 1 p.m. CDT Saturday at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Center, with the Rev. Glenn Berge officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. today at St. Paul Lutheran Church, and will continue after 9 a.m. Saturday.
Elsie Lehmkuhl was born June 11, 1904, on the family farm southeast of Center, the daughter of Louis and Martha (Voeltz) Lehmkuhl. She attended rural school in the area and worked for her father in the register of deeds office for Oliver County until her marriage to Otto H. Cordes, April 15, 1925, in Center. They farmed his farm where they lived until they retired in 1945 and moved to Center. They both did custodial work at the Center School. Otto died March 4, 1972. In 1993, Elsie moved to the Hazen Retirement Home, and in 1996, to Elm Crest Manor in New Salem. She loved to crochet and tat.
She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and its Ladies Aid, a charter member of South Center Homemakers Club, Center American Legion Auxiliary and Golden Age Club.
She is survived by two daughters, Delores Leinius, Stanton, and Beatrice Berger, Center; six grandchildren and their spouses, Neil and Jane Leinius, Sandra and James Folk, Gary Leinius, Ricky and Barbara Leinius, Randy and Charmayne Leinius and Jolene Berger; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Otto; her stepmother, Ida; her brother, Moc; two sons-in-law, Martin Leinius and Joe Berger; and three grandchildren.
(Buehler-Larson Funeral Home, Mandan)
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Spouse:
Otto H Cordes (1890 - 1972)
Children:
Delores Cordes Leinius (1926 - 2012)*
Beatrice Cordes Berger (1930 - 2009)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Saint Pauls Cemetery
Center
Oliver County
North Dakota, USA
Created by: admomofthree
Record added: Sep 03, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 58148015
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