Loretta Dohmeier

Loretta Edna Lillich was born on October 11, 1933, on a farm southwest of Bird City, Kansas, to Edna Marie (Stutheit) and August Christian Lillich. She was baptized on November 5, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Bird City, and confirmed in 1948.

Loretta attended rural schools until consolidation of the school district when she was in eighth grade. She then attended eighth grade through her senior year at Bird City High School, graduating in 1951. Loretta attended Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, for two years, graduating with a teachers degree. She taught in Kennard, Nebraska, for two years in the elementary school there.
Loretta married Ervin Dohmeier on August 1, 1954, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Bird City. To this union four children were born, Catherine, Mark, Debra and Daniel. Their first parish was at Fredricksburg Lutheran in Minden, Nebraska. In the following years they served multiple parishes in Minnesota. Due to failing health, Ervin took early retirement and they moved to Belgrade, Minnesota. He died in November 1998. In 2001, Loretta moved to Alexandria, MN, to be near family.
In her earlier years, she substitute taught in the public school in Brownton. Loretta was involved in Sunday School, Vacation Bible school, church choirs and church women's groups. She enjoyed sewing, quilting and crocheting, sharing these talents with family and friends. Sewing and tying quilts was her passion. She used this passion and talent to help make quilts for Lutheran World Relief.

Loretta died and went to heaven on Saturday, June 11, 2016, at Knute Nelson Home at the age of eighty two. Loretta is survived by her children, Cathy (Byron) Bruce, Mark (Jan) Dohmeier, Deb (James) Sater and Dan (Sandy) Dohmeier; 10 grandchildren, Shannon and John Bruce, Jacob and Matthew Dohmeier, Sarah, Miranda and Abigail Sater, Olivia, Benjamin and Simon Dohmeier; sisters, Elaine Kortenhof, Delores (Stan) Dorsch, Janice DeLozier; many brothers- and sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her husband, Ervin; nephew, James DeLozier; and brother- in-law, David Kortenhof.