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Ardelle Davis
Dec 29, 2013
Ardelle Davis left this world on Sunday, December 29, 2013. She was 89 years old at the time of her passing. Ardelle Etta Johnson was born on May 17, 1924, at Artesian, South Dakota to Peter and Sorena Johnson. Ardelle lived on the family farm near Artesian and Letcher, South Dakota. She attended rural schools outside Mitchell and one of...
Mildred Rosina Klein
Dec 19, 2013
Mildred Rosina Klein was born August 28, 1929 on the Family farm to Carl George and Bertha (Hasche) Lindwurm. She passed away December 19, 2013 at Sanford hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 84 years. Mildred was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. She grew up on the family farm near Carlock, South Dakota and...
Sandra Kay Sunde
Dec 18, 2013
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 21, 2013 at 2:30 PM at Clausen Funeral Home in Burke, SD. Visitation will begin at 9:00 Am on Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Spotted Tail Cemetery, Jamison, NE. Clausen Funeral Home, Burke, is handling the arrangements.
Mildred Arlene Sylvester
Dec 17, 2013
Mildred was born on January 2, 1932 in Bassett, Nebraska, the daughter of George and LaVona McGuire and passed away on December 17th in Oklahoma City. On December 16, 1952 she married William Sylvester and they moved to Oklahoma in 1958. She worked for several years at the Ammunition Depot in McAlester. Mildred also volunteered for 15 years at OU...
Darlene Benter
Dec 11, 2013
Darlene Faye Benter was born January 9, 1939 at Mills, Nebraska to Joseph and Louise (Rotter) Scholz and she died December 11, 2013 at the Gregory Community Hospital in Gregory, South Dakota at the age of 74 years. Darlene was baptized on January 9, 1939 with St. John's Baptist Church of Paxton, South Dakota. She grew up and attended school...
Frank Peterson
Nov 22, 2013
Frank Oscar Peterson was born to Axel Leonard and Martha Linnea (Anderson) Peterson on January 28, 1930 and passed away on November 22, 2013 at the age of 83 years, 9 months and 25 days. Like his five older siblings, Frank was born in their home in Gregory Co. South Dakota. In 1934 the family moved to Brocksburg, Nebraska. Frank...
Orris Petersen
Nov 15, 2013
Orris Rasmus Petersen was born April 26, 1918 at Irene, South Dakota to Fred and Anna (Simminson) Petersen. He passed away November 15,2013 at the Burke Hospital at the age of 95. Orris' parents moved to a farm south of Gregory in 1920, where he grew up, along with two sisters and four brothers. He attended the first eight grades...
Juanita Fernau
Nov 7, 2013
I was born July 30, 1943 in Rosebud, South Dakota to Alice Knudsen Wright and Thomas Wright. I met Tom Fernau in Norfolk, Nebraska and we moved to Bonesteel, South Dakota along with my son, Bryan Wright. We were married and Tom worked on the Mulehead Ranch for Rose and Curley Haisch, where we made our home for 38 years....
Ann Cole
Nov 4, 2013
Anna Cole, 90, of South Dakota, formerly of Ottawa, Illinois, passed away Monday, November 4, 2013, at Winner Long Term Care in Winner, South Dakota. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 7, 2013, at St. Columba Church with Rev. David Kipfer officiating. Visitation will be from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 6,...
Steven Frank
Nov 3, 2013
Steven Wayne Frank was born to Wayne and Dorothy (Potthoff) Frank on March 9, 1961 at Burke, South Dakota. Steve passed away November 3rd, 2013 at Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 52 years. Steve graduated from Bonesteel School in 1979. He graduated from Western Dakota Tech in Rapid City. He returned to Bonesteel and...
Robert Viktora
Nov 3, 2013
Robert J. Viktora answered God's call to come and join him on Sunday, November 3, 2013, enjoying what he loved, being out on the land. Bob was born January 12, 1937 to John and Marie (Humpal) Viktora in Fairfax, South Dakota. He attended 12 years of school and graduated from Fairfax. He later attended business school in Rapid City, South...
Bradley Jaye Hanson
Oct 29, 2013
Bradley Jaye Hanson was born November 15, 1962 at Rockford, Illinois and died October 29, 2013 at the Gregory Hospital in Gregory, South Dakota after a battle with cancer. He held onto life "to come home" and to see his children move to Burke to be with family and enroll in the Burke school. He was reassured on the Monday...
Sylvester Paul Black Bull
Oct 19, 2013
Sylvester Paul Black Bull, 64, of St. Charles, South Dakota passed away Saturday, October 19th, 2013 at Avera McKennen Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Sylvester was born in St. Charles on June 25, 1949 to Soloman Black Bull Sr. and Alvina Patterson. Sylvester worked in Norfolk, Nebraska as a welder. He also had a wife, Theresa and two children,...
Kerry Horn
Oct 11, 2013
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:30 AM at Grace Lutheran Church in Burke, SD. There will be prayer service on Wednesday at 7:30 PM at the church. Visitation will be one hour prior to both services at the church. Kerry Lynn Horn was born on February 11, 1956 at the Burke Community Hospital to...
Marion Peterson
Oct 9, 2013
Marion was born September 20, 1922 at the homestead north of Gregory, South Dakota to Frank and Abbie (Blake) Soesbe and died October 9, 2013 at the Avera Rosebud Country Care Center, Gregory, South Dakota at the age of 91. Marion grew up on the family farm north of Gregory. She graduated from Gregory High School and then attended Southern...
Brenda Hanson
Oct 3, 2013
Brenda Lee Hanson was born September 13, 1960 at Albert Lea, Minnesota to Joseph and Betty (Oquist) Crose. She has two brothers Joe and Greg. At the age of two months, the family moved to Colorado. Brenda graduated from Jefferson Senior High School in 1978. She was baptized in the Baptist faith and was later confirmed in the Lutheran faith...
Mark Sevier, Jr
Sep 19, 2013
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 10:30 AM at the Milk's Camp Community Hall near Bonesteel, SD. There will be wake services on Sunday at 3 PM and on Monday at 5 PM, at the Hall. Burial will be in the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cemetery near St. Charles, SD. JESUS HELP ME In every...
Ted Schmitz
Sep 14, 2013
Ted Schmitz, 78, of Bonesteel died Saturday September 14, 2013 with his family by his side. Ted was born May 31, 1935 to John T. and Helen (Derner) Schmitz the seventh of eleven children. Ted enlisted in the U.S. Navy in June 1952 serving aboard the PT-15 and the USS Agerholm D.D.826. He was honorably discharged May 1956 with the...
Eugene Chytka
Aug 29, 2013
64 yr old Gene Chytka of Burke, SD finally got his wish. He went to the biggest hunting ground in Heaven on August 29th, 2013 at the Doughtery Hospice House in Sioux Falls SD. Eugene Jay Chytka was born on February 19, 1949 at Wagner, SD to Frank (Doc)Chytka & Elvira (Hatwan) Chytka. He attended a rural school south of...
Vervil Faye Kracht
Aug 29, 2013
Vervil Faye Zimmerman, daughter of Harry and Martha Zimmerman, was born September 14,1930 in Burke, SD. She was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Jamison, Nebraska. She attended elementary school in rural Keya Paha County. She went on to attend high school at Burke High School in Burke, SD where she graduated in May of 1948. After high...
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