Cordella A. Kremer, 96, Dickinson, was welcomed into the gates of Heaven and into the arms of her Lord and Savior on October 22, 2017 at Sanford Health, Bismarck. Cordella’s funeral service will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, October 28, 2017 at Living Word Fellowship, Dickinson, with Rev. Tim Voth officiating. Interment will follow at Vang Lutheran Cemetery, south of Dunn Center. Visitation will be on Friday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., at Ladbury Funeral Service, and will continue one hour prior to services at the church on Saturday.
Cordella Alvelda Nodland was born October 14, 1921 in Halliday, the third daughter of Cornel & Anna (Brown) Nodland. She attended a country school and graduated from Werner High School. She started her long working career in the Dunn County Register of Deeds in Manning. She then worked in Watford City and with Selective Service in Williston. During this time, she spent a year on the farm after her mother passed away helping her dad and young brother Luther. She then continued her career with the Federal Government working in Billings, Mont., Phoenix, Ariz., and Gallup, N.M., and retiring from the Bureau of Indian Affairs while in Albuquerque, N.M. She married Darold Kremer in 1965 while in Gallup. They later divorced. While living in Albuquerque she took up painting and several of her beautiful paintings graced her home. She was always a beautiful lady in every way, both inside and out. She always took pride and enjoyed her home and her rose gardens in Albuquerque. She came to love and share her love for the Spanish and Indian culture of the southwest.
Her love and magic with plants and flowers followed her return to North Dakota in 2004 when she moved back settling in Dickinson to be closer to family. She thoroughly enjoyed Bible Study with her church friends and also enjoyed the friends she made at Red Hats. When visiting Cordella in her later years, her home was always well-groomed as well as herself…lipstick & earrings in place and coordinated perfectly.
She leaves behind her stepdaughter Cheryl Nelson along with 15 nieces and nephews and many great and great-great nieces and nephews. She had no biological children but always welcomed everyone…allowing several of her nieces and nephews to live and share her home along with any other “strays”…including cats, dogs, etc. Her generosity was immense especially to the little critters in this world. She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters Lillian (Leonard) Rustand, Thelma (Ed) Kouba, her brother Luther Nodland, a stepson Donald Kremer and two step-grandchildren.
