Funeral service for Mrs. Delores Ruth (Lang) Jordahl, age 84, of Decatur, AL (formerly of North Dakota), will be Friday, June 13, 2014, 6:00 p.m., at Hansen-Runsvold Funeral Home, Fargo, ND. Delores will be laid to rest in her beloved North Dakota on Saturday, June 14, 2014, 10:00 a.m., Sunset Memorial Gardens, Jamestown, ND. Shelton Funeral Home assisted the family with local arrangements.
Delores Ruth Lang, who died Sunday, June 8, 2014, at NHC Healthcare of Moulton, was born August 8, 1929, in Lehr, ND, the youngest of 14 children born to John and Katherine (Mayer) Lang, who were German immigrants from Bessarabia, South Russia. 1946 was a bittersweet year for Delores. She married her sweetheart, Melvin Elhard, and buried her infant daughter, Caron Faye. Six years later, her second daughter, Carolyn Kay, was born. Delores and famly lived in Jamestown until 1959, when they moved to Fargo, where she worked hard at whatever she undertook, whether it was cooking for her family, tending her garden, or managing a diner (Simonson’s Cafe). She also worked at Silverline Boats, and finally at NDSU in food services, from which she retired in 1995.
Melvin passed away in 1976 and, after several years alone, Delores met and married her second husband, Harold Jordahl. Harold and Delores traveled throughout the United States for the next 10 years. They never missed a Christmas in Georgia, where her daughter, Carolyn, lived. After Harold passed away, and Delores became ill, she moved to Georgia in 2000 to be near her daughter.
Delores is survived by her daughter, Carolyn Elhard Conway of Decatur, AL; four stepdaughters, Debra McCullough of Centerville, GA, Kathi Trottier of Horace, ND, Pam Lewis of Vergas, MN, and Gayle Kerkow of Mauldin, SC; one brother, Reinhold “Micky” Lang of Andover, MN; one sister, Christine Hillenbrand of Ellendale, ND; one grandson, Sean Conway (Joy) of Huntsville, AL; one granddaughter, Tara Sandlin (Destin) of Decatur, AL; and three great-grandchildren, Sadie Sandlin, Sawyer Sandlin, and Gideon Sandlin, all of Decatur, AL.
