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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271964
Title: Dalenne Schmidt
Date: 12/24/1956-12/4/2025
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Inscription/Marks: 12/24/1956
Summary: Dalenne D. Schmidt, 68, of Williston, ND, passed away December 4, 2025, at her residence with her loving husband by her side. A memorial service is planned for March of 2026. Dalenne was born on December 24, 1956, to John and Gay Laney in Greeley, CO. Her parents moved with Chevron several times, as she was growing up, to Gillette, WY, Glenburn, ND, and then to Plentywood, MT. She graduated from Plentywood High School in 1975, and then attended beauty school in Billings, MT, for a year. She then moved to Minot, ND, and found a job with Fischer Motors, working as an administrative assistant. That is where she met a parts man named Tim Schmidt, who always found a lot of reasons to need stamps from Dalenne, for mailing orders. The relationship improved to the point of the formation of Dalenne and Tim Schmidt, Inc. on April 22,1978. Dalenne and Tim wandered in the spiritual wilderness for about 17 years, when they were exposed to a creation-based teaching, that changed their lives forever. Teachings that taught reading the Bible regularly and taking its words literally, not allegorically or figuratively, grabbed their attention and changed their thinking. Anyone who talked to Dalenne, knew that she believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and in Jesus the Messiah of all mankind, and that all gentile believers owe a debt of gratitude to the Jewish people, because the Holy Scriptures were entrusted to them, to present to the world, and the Messiah (and Savior) came into the world, born of Jewish lineage. Her passion was seeking to expose Jewish people to the saving message of Messiah Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew, which means “God is salvation”), as we are commanded by scripture to bring the Gospel (Good News) to all people, to the Jew first and then to the Gentiles. She was committed to transcribing the DVD teachings of a Jewish believer in Jesus, Arnold Fruchtenbaum, for use in a teaching series about Old Testament prophets and teachers, to participants to use in their individual study of scripture. Her progressing health problems were the only thing preventing her from continuing in this task. Dalenne & Tim Schmidt Inc. was dissolved on December 4, 2025, and she went to be with her Creator and Savior. She always believed that heaven is a place of indescribable beauty, as described by the apostle Paul, and she was unafraid of her coming death. Her BFF and husband Tim knows that he will be reunited with her, ending this time of separation, with the Rapture or his death, and both look forward to the Messianic Kingdom and the Eternal Order to come. She is survived by her husband, Tim of Williston, ND; brother, John Laney of Clarkston, WA, and his children, Patrick, Chris, and Sara; brother, Brad Laney, his wife Teresa of Vernal, UT, and their children, Jared, Josh, and Jordyn, all of Vernal. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Gay Laney, of Plentywood, MT; and sister-in-law, Joni, of Wolf Point MT.
Red ID: FND_I_79450 Image ID: 546536 Image Notes: FND001 271964

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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