Dagmar (Rettedal) Oldfield Obituary
On December 29, 2019, at the age of 81, Dagmar Oldfield, who was born in Clarkfield, Minnesota, but who grew up in Madison and then Sioux Falls, South Dakota, passed away at her home in Peoria, Arizona. She was a graduate of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, having earned a degree in Elementary and Deaf Education. Just before meeting her husband-to-be in Denver, Colorado (where he was a seminary student), she spent a summer as a counselor to troubled youth at the original Teen Challenge Center in Brooklyn, New York, working with David and Don Wilkerson, who were internationally known through "The Cross and the Switchblade." Throughout her married life she worked variously as a teacher of special-needs children, a homemaker, a church office-secretary, and a sales associate at a Christian bookstore. She was the consummate pastor's wife to her husband of 53 1/2 years.
The youngest daughter of Olaf and Dagmar Rettedal, immigrants to the United States from Norway, she was loved, cherished, and survived by her husband John; her children Kristie, David, Peter and Ingrid; her children-in-law Joe, Jason, and Anissa; her grandchildren Alexandra, David, Cassidy, Ilse, Valor Salam and Freedom Shifa; and her great-grandson Ayden. Throughout her adult life, Dagmar was an unwitting role model to numerous young women and was loved, admired, and appreciated by all who knew her.
