Alice E. Jordahl
Vertin-Munson Funeral Home
1-701-642-4000
Alice E. Jordahl, 86, Wahpeton, ND, died Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at St. Francis Healthcare Campus, Breckenridge, MN. The funeral service will be Friday, 10:30 am, at Bethel Lutheran Church, Wahpeton, with Rev. Gary Mikkelson officiating. The visitation will be Thursday from 5 PM to 8 PM with a 7 PM prayer service at Vertin-Munson Funeral Home, Wahpeton and one hour before the service at the church on Friday. Interment will be at Webster Cemetery, Webster, S.D.
Alice E. Jordahl was born October 5, 1921, at Webster, SD, the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Skortheim) Jordahl. Alice attended elementary school at Webster, moving with her family to Fairmount, ND, and graduated from Fairmount High School in 1939. Alice completed a business and accounting program from NDSCS and started work at Richland County Courthouse in 1959, in the Auditor?s office. Alice retired in 1988 and continued to live in Wahpeton.
Alice was a former member First English Church, Fairmount and currently a member of Bethel Lutheran Church, Wahpeton. Alice taught Sunday school for 24 years in Fairmount and sang for the Bethel Choir. She had once written articles for local newspapers. Alice?s focus in life was her church, friends and her job.
Alice is survived by two nieces: Renee (Terry) Olthoff, Edgerton, MN; Wendy (John) Hilke, Hudson, Wisc.; and six great nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and her sister, Beatrice Mayer.