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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271139
Title: Delmer Weidner
Date: 6/20/1936-3/1/2023
Inscription/Marks: 6/20/1936
Summary: Delmer Weidner, 86, Killdeer, ND, passed away March 1, 2023, at Hill Top Home of Comfort, Killdeer. Funeral services were held March 10, 2023, at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Killdeer, with Pastoral Intern Anne Nies officiating. Interment was at the Halliday Cemetery, Halliday, ND. Delmer Weidner was born June 20, 1936, in Beulah, ND, to Carl and Ella (Reinhardt) Weidner. He attended elementary school north of Hazen, ND. When his parents moved to a farm east of Halliday, ND, he attended Halliday Public School and graduated from high school in 1954. He attended Dickinson State University where he received his teaching degree. He taught at rural elementary school north of Halliday, Werner Public School, and Killdeer Public School. He retired from teaching in 1977. He became a full-time employee at Cenex in Killdeer. Due to a head injury, Delmer retired in 1990. During his working career, Delmer worked for the North Dakota State Highway Department as a surveyor. He farmed and did custom swathing. He was a school bus driver, a junior high basketball coach, and he worked in maintenance at Hill Top Home of Comfort. Delmer was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church and a council member serving on the building committee. He honorably served in the United States Army from 1958-1960. On December 30, 1959, Delmer married Marylene Frei at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church at Halliday, ND. They were blessed with two children, daughter Delene and son Lance. Their children were the joy of their lives. Delmer enjoyed teaching, coaching, and driving school bus, but farming was his favorite thing to do. He loved hearing how his former students were doing. He enjoyed watching sports and listening to classical music. He enjoyed ethnic foods and baking cookies then giving them to his friends. Delmer had a great sense of humor, a quick wit and he loved visiting with friends. He loved family vacations. He especially loved having his children and grandchildren home to visit and watching the grandchildren play. Delmer was a resident of Hill Top Home of Comfort in Killdeer from 2003 until the time of his death. Delmer is survived by his wife, Marylene; daughter, Delene (Kevin) Childers; son, Lance Weidner; four grandchildren, Zachariah (Rachel) Wurzer, Joshua Wurzer, Bailey Weidner and Maxwell Weidner; five great-grandchildren; two sisters, Eileen Schnaidt and Shirley (Ron) Kudrna; one niece, Ronda (James) Gustafson; two nephews, Wesley (Marcia) Schnaidt and Ryan (Raumi) Kudrna. He was preceded in death by his parents and niece, Robyn Schnaidt.
Red ID: FND_I_78627 Image ID: 577161 Image Notes: FND001 271139

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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