Gus Daniel Koenig
Apr 9, 2019
Gus Daniel Koenig was born February 22, 2019 in Yankton, SD to Daniel and Katie Koenig. He weighed 9 pounds 7 ounces and was 22 inches long. Shortly after birth, he was flown to the Avera NICU in Sioux Falls, SD., where he was later diagnosed with rare cases of Hirschsprung Disease and Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome. On March...
Donald Dwayne Baldwin
Apr 2, 2019
Donald Dwayne Baldwin was born May 24, 1926 at Bonesteel, South Dakota to Rubin and Frieda (Schroeder) Baldwin. He died April 2, 2019 at the Butte Healthcare Center in Butte, Nebraska at the age of 92 years.
Don grew to manhood on the family farm south of Bonesteel and attended country school. He graduated from Bonesteel High...
Ruth Eileen Jones
Mar 21, 2019
Ruth E. (Ashley) Jones, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend was born September 25, 1924 to C.W. And Nina (Baker) Ashley on a farm south of Dallas, SD. She was the youngest of five children, Florence, Wilford, Allen, and Lowell. In 1931 the family moved to the Dixon area.
Ruth attended country school through eighth grade, most...
Amanda Leona Schochenmaier
Mar 15, 2019
Amanda Leona Camin Schochenmaier was born March 1, 1915 at the family farm in Naper, Nebraska. She was the oldest of eight children born to John and Emma (Bettcher) Camin.
As a young girl, Amanda and her siblings walked to a country school. German was the only language Amanda knew at that time. She learned to speak...
Helen Elizabeth Hoppe
Mar 9, 2019
Helen Elizabeth Hoppe was born October 7, 1929 at Rosebud South Dakota to Jacob and Lena (Martin) Smith. She went to her heavenly home on Saturday, March 9, 2019. She died at the Firesteel Healthcare Center in Mitchell, South Dakota at the age of 89 years.
Helen was united in marriage to Melvin Hoppe on March 18,...
Pierre Solman Lapointe, Jr.
Mar 9, 2019
Pierre Solman LaPointe Jr. "Maka Kahomni" was born on August 21, 1950 at Mother of Grace hospital in Gregory, SD to Pierre and Josephine (Andrews) LaPointe Sr. Pierre started his spiritual journey to eternal rest on March 9, 2019 at Sanford Medical Center in Sioux Falls at the age of 68 years 7 months with his loving family and...
Nancy Marie Hanson
Mar 9, 2019
Nancy Marie Turney was born on November 17, 1942 in Burke, South Dakota. She was the third child of Dello Halsted and Marie Doris (Reetz) Turney. Her Turney and Reetz grandparents were homesteading pioneers in Gregory County.
Farm life was the focus of her childhood. She attended a one-room rural school in Tripp County, where her Mother...
Robert Connell, Jr.
Mar 1, 2019
Robert Harrison Connell, Jr. was born August 7, 1928 at home in eastern Keya Paha County, Nebraska to R. Harrison Connell, Sr. and Ada (Winter) Connell. He passed away March 1, 2019, at Brookestone View Skilled Nursing facility, Broken Bow, Nebraska.
As a young boy, Robert became known as Bob, attended rural school, started high school at...
Stanley Leroy Kemery
Feb 24, 2019
Stanley (Stan) Leroy Kemery, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Teacher and Marine, age 82, of Lititz, PA went home to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and meet up with his Mother and Father, Margaret & Theodore Kemery and Brothers Billy, Walter and infant Michael Kemery, who preceded him in passing. Â Stan succumbed to health issues on Sunday, February...
Peter Oberosler
Feb 17, 2019
Peter Oberosler
Born 6/9/1926
Died 2/17/2019
Peter was born the youngest of nine children to Peter and Amelia (Fritz) Oberosler on June 9, 1926 in Florutz, Austria (now Italy). At the age of six, Pete left Austria/Italy with five of his siblings under the care his mother to come to the United States. ...
Loreen Mae Schultz
Feb 17, 2019
Loreen Mae Schultz was born November 20, 1925 in rural Nebraska to Harold and Inda (Blitzkie) Tarr. Loreen died February 17, 2019 at the Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 93 years, 2 months, and 28 days.
Loreen graduated from St. Charles High School and attended college in Springfield, South Dakota...
Helen J. Reynolds
Feb 6, 2019
Helen Josephine Reynolds was born on November 15, 1918 to Margaret & Henry Opbroek. They lived on the family farm a few miles east of Fairfax where they raised thirteen children, having lost one in infancy. Helen was a bit of wild child, often getting herself into little spats that drew the attention of her stern but loving parents....
Ardeth Corene Bachmann
Jan 29, 2019
Ardeth Jons Bachmann of Bonesteel, South Dakota was born in January 27 1929 and joined her loved ones in heaven on January 29, 2019. She passed away at her home after a brief battle with cancer.
She was the third of six children born to Emil and Lydia (Schroeder) Jons. Ardeth graduated from Bonesteel High School in...
Leona Elizabeth Opbroek
Jan 24, 2019
Leona Elizabeth Bentz Opbroek was born on March 9, 1923 to Fred Bentz Jr. and Lydia Wiedrick Bentz. She was the oldest girl in a family of thirteen brothers and sisters. At a young age she worked for several of the neighbors, mostly baby- sitting or doing small chores.
She attended the Bentz school and graduated from...
Arthur Hertz
Dec 25, 2018
Arthur Curtis Hertz was born September 17, 1930 at the family home northeast of Fairfax, SD. He lived in the same house his entire life. He died peacefully at the Gregory Hospital on December 25, 2018 at the age of 88.
Art graduated from Fairfax High School in that famous class of 1948. Art worked with his...
Alvin Henry Bartling
Dec 20, 2018
Alvin Bartling, 92, of Burke, SD passed away on Thursday, December 20, 2018 at the Avera Gregory Hospital in Gregory, SD. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, December 29, 2018 at 10:30AM at the Grace Lutheran Church in Burke, SD. Burial will follow in the Graceland Cemetery. A visitation will be held on Friday, December 28, 2018 at...
Arne Carl Sund
Dec 18, 2018
Arne Carl Sund age 72, passed away suddenly, but peacefully on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 in Irvine, California. He was born July 19, 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Carl and Annie Sund. He served as a Maintenance Engineer in the US Navy from 1964 to 1968, installed on the USS Perkins DD-877. He married Lee Alys Pierce from...
Wesley Nelson
Dec 16, 2018
George Wesley Nelson was born to George Ejner and Lora (Swift) Nelson on February 6, 1931 at Lucas, South Dakota, joining 3 older sisters in the family. He died on December 16, 2018 at Sioux Falls, SD.
Wesley attended grades 1-8 at the Bunnel School...
Gertrude Ahlers
Dec 16, 2018
Gertrude Mildred Ahlers was born near Bonesteel, South Dakota on May 5, 1921. She was the third child of eleven born to Herman and Lucy (Brunmeir) Fuhrer. She died December 16, 2018 at Pleasant Acres Care Center in Hull, Iowa at the age of 97 years.
Lena Nelson
Dec 14, 2018
Lena Mae Williams was born July 14, 1935 to Lewis H. and Louise B. (Kruger) Williams at Grand Junction, CO. At age 3 Lena moved with her family to St. Paul, MN and then a few years later to Rapid City, SD where she grew up.
