Dorothy E. Koudele
Coleridge — Dorothy E. Koudele, 96, Coleridge, died May 3, 2007, at the Park View Haven Nursing Home, Coleridge.
Visitation was May at the Wintz Funeral Home, Coleridge, and continued one hour prior to services Monday at the Church.
Funeral Services were May 7 at the Pilgrim Congregational UCC, Coleridge with Rev. Gary Kimm officiating.
Burial was in the Coleridge City Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jack Brandl, Kerry Hefner, Jeff Wemhoff, Tippy Froendt, Jon Russell and Claire Jordan.
Dorothy was born Sept. 19, 1910, five miles north and west of Hartington to Hugh E. and Minnie (Jordan) Murray. She was named by Dr. F.A. Padden who delivered her. Her mother died at the age of 39 and left a family of 12 children. Dorothy was four years old at the time and was raised by the Pete Jordan family, her mother’s brother. She attended Pearl Creek School for 10 years and graduated from Coleridge High School in 1928. Dorothy received her R.N. degree from the Methodist School of Nursing, Sioux City, Iowa, in 1934. She married Edward R. Koudele Sept. 15, 1935, at Coleridge. He died Oct, 20, 1977, at the age of 65. After their marriage, they lived in Coleridge. Dorothy was Supervisor of Nursing at the Tri-State Nursing Home from 1949-1959 and then was the resident administrator of the Coleridge Nursing Home from 1959-1962. She returned to her position of Supervisor of Nursing from 1962-1972 at the Coleridge Nursing Home. From 1972 until she retired in 1975, she was the Supervisor of Nursing at the newly built Park View Haven Nursing Home, Coleridge.
In 1961, she received the Golden Heart Nurse of the Month Emblem, given by the National Nursing Home Nurses Association, for the care she gave to Dr. Dewey’s extremely ill cancer patients while he was snowed out of town in the blizzard of 1948. Dorothy had been a resident of the Embers Assisted Living, Coleridge, since Nov. 2, 2001, and had been at Park View Haven Nursing Home since January of 2007.
Dorothy was a member of the Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ and the Coleridge American Legion Auxiliary Post 114. She was devoted to caring for many people in the Coleridge Community.
Survivors include a son, William Koudele, Omaha; two grandsons, Thomas and Daniel Koudele, both of Omaha; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and 11 brothers and sisters.