Frieda Edith Hoffmann Dortland
Frieda was the seventh child and fourth daughter born to John and Emma. In 1910 Frieda and her brother Louis lived in Aberdeen, South Dakota with their sister Emma and her husband Roy. By 1920 she was living in New Ulm again with her widowed mother and her brother John. She worked as a sales lady in Ottomeyer's Ready-to-Wear department store there. She married Arthur Longmyer Dortland on September 6, 1920 at her sister Nellie's home in Paynesville, Minnesota and lived in Mitchell, South Dakota. She was a member of the Methodist Church, its Women's Society, the Royal Neighbors, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. She died November 5,1941 at age 53. They had a son named Richard who was born in 1930.
Lillian "Lee" Eyrich Eeten wrote the following about her Aunt Frieda. "She loved clothes, and was known for big hats, buttons, and bows. She lavished her love for children on all of us. She was really devastated at little Raymond’s death (Raymond one of the twins of Louise and Ernst Eyrich)—I remember her becoming hysterical in mother’s garden at the corner house on Front Street. Married to Dortland late in life. Had Dickie, whom she coddled—her very own child, finally. She sang alto."