Mrs. Ohde was born Emma Dora Schelldorf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John and Elsabea (Suhr) Schelldorf, in Clinton County, Iowa, March 13, 1874. She died at Doctors Hospital in Omaha, December 25, 1947, after an illness of two years.
As a child, she moved with her parents to Crawford County, where she lived until her marriage to Henry John Ohde March 4, 1897. She was the mother of seven children, three of whom died in infancy. Two daughters, Opal and Inez, and her husband preceded her in death.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Dewey Alt (Elsie) of Omaha and Mrs. Leonard Collins (Esther) of Chicago, also four grandchildren, and one brother, William Schelldorf.