Aamot, DeElla 91, a longtime church organist and piano teacher in Willmar, died Wednesday, April 10, at Compassionate Cottage in Willmar. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, April 26th, at Calvary Lutheran Church in Willmar with visitation one hour before the service. Burial will be that afternoon at Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery in rural Watson. Funeral arrangements are with Harvey Anderson Funeral Home in Willmar. www.hafh.org DeElla Cathryn Juel was born Oct. 7, 1932, in New Rockford, North Dakota, to John and Agnes (Anderson) Juel. She graduated from New Rockford High School in 1950 and St. Olaf College in 1954 with a degree in music education. She taught for one year in Cavalier, North Dakota, and then for two years in Benson. On Aug. 10, 1957, she married Paul Aamot. They moved to Willmar in 1963. DeElla was the organist at Calvary Lutheran Church in Willmar for 25 years. She also taught piano lessons for many years and worked as a nurse's aide at Willmar Junior High School. DeElla loved music and was a talented pianist. Besides playing the organ at Calvary, she accompanied many choirs and was involved in musical productions at the Barn Theater and Willmar Community College. She also enjoyed traveling, first visiting Europe as a college student in 1953. Later in life, she and Paul traveled to many cities with the Willmar Community College choir, spent several winters in Arizona and traveled to Norway and Denmark three times. She took her four children on a trip to Scandinavia in 2013. DeElla was very active socially and enjoyed spending time with her friends in Willmar and staying in touch with her cousins in the United States and Denmark. She and Paul raised four children: Brett, Jane, Sarah and Gregg. Besides traveling, they enjoyed choir concerts and church activities and attending their grandchildren's various activities. They were married for 53 years before Paul passed away in 2010. She is survived by two daughters, Jane (and Larry) Barr of Rochester and Sarah Aamot of Brainerd; two sons, Brett (and Kathy) Aamot of Spicer and Gregg (and Jeanne) Aamot of Victoria; six grandchildren: Bria (and Chris) Skordahl of Chaska; Mariel (and Cole) Rudick of Mound; Josh (and Krista) Alexander of Owatonna; Matt (and Erin) Alexander of Rochester; Tom (and Jacey) Alexander of Rochester and Manny Aamot of Victoria; two step-grandchildren: Chelsey (and Chad) Eul of Eden Prairie and Maria (and Matthew Stram) Barr of Hopkins; as well as 14 great grandchildren and step-great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and her brother, John Juel.