She received North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, in 2004.

[2][3] Her father died of a kidney condition in 1951; her mother became a Benedictine sister in 1968, after raising Welder and her siblings.

[2] Welder returned to Bismarck to enter the community of Benedictine nuns at Annunciation Monastery.

[10] In 2004, she was granted the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, the highest honor of the state of North Dakota.

[13] The state governor, Doug Burgum, and the senator John Hoeven expressed their condolences.

[20] Monsignor James P. Shea, President of the University of Mary, celebrated Welder's funeral Mass on June 29, and her body was buried in the monastery cemetery.