Marvin Drey
Feb 25, 2014
Marvin Drey, 86, of Burke, South Dakota passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at the Winner Regional Long Term Care Facility in Winner, South Dakota. Marvin was born to Albert and Edna (Jones) Drey on June, 17, 1929 in Gregory County, South Dakota. Marvin grew up helping around the farm with his brothers and sisters. He attended a rural...
Inez Grace Tech
Feb 25, 2014
Inez Grace Tech, 78, of St. Charles, SD passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at the Burke Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, SD. Funeral will be held on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 10:30am at the Grace Lutheran Church in Burke. Burial will follow in the Graceland Cemetery in Burke. Visitation will be held on Friday, February 28 from...
Lorene Farrand
Feb 21, 2014
Lorene Marie Mayer was born February 12, 1922 at the family farm south of Herrick, SD to Jacob & Mary (Goetz) Mayer. She went to her Heavenly home on February 21, 2014 at the age of 92 years. She attended Elementary School at Klug School, a rural one-room schoolhouse and went on to attend High School in Burke where she...
Ira Sharpfish
Feb 7, 2014
Ira Shawn Sharpfish was born November 26, 1970 at Rosebud South Dakota to Betty Brushbreaker. He was raised and loved by Sydney and Corinne Iwan and also by Ed and Irene Harrison. Ira passed away February 7, 2014 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 43 years. Ira graduated from Todd County High School...
Gary Vogt
Feb 3, 2014
Gary Lavern Vogt was born October 16th, 1941 to Martin and Vergie (Green) Vogt at the family home in Herrick, SD. After a courageous battle with cancer, he left this earth with his loving family by his side, holding the Lord's hand for his journey home. Gary grew up in Herrick, SD and graduated from Bonesteel High School in 1959....
James Norberg
Jan 22, 2014
Jim Norberg, 59, went home to be with the Lord on January 22, 2014. Beloved brother of Pamela Norberg and Janet Norberg-McKelvey and brother-in-law of Gary McKelvey. Jim was preceded in death by his parents, Dale and Pat Norberg. Jim was an accomplished welder with over 30 years experience in the field, and was an ardent animal lover. Since Jim's...
Wesley Stinton
Jan 14, 2014
Wesley Eugene Stinton was born on July 19th, 1925 to Orville V. Stinton and Grace B. (Slagel) Stinton. He spent his youth on the family farm. Along with two friends, he spent one year in California working as a truck driver on the docks in Long Beach during the War effort-but then returned to South Dakota and graduated from Burke...
Elmer Kracht
Jan 10, 2014
Elmer David Kracht was born May 29th, 1924 to Chris and Olga (Kahler) Kracht on a small farm south of Burke, South Dakota and gained his angel wings at the Burke Community Memorial Hospital on January 10th, 2014 at the age of 89. Elmer was the oldest of four children. He attended school thru the 8th grade at which time...
Geneieve Lamotte
Jan 10, 2014
Funeral services will be held on Monday, January 13, 2014 at 1:00 PM at Milks Camp Community Hall near Bonesteel. There will be a wake services beginning on Saturday at the Church. Burial will be in the Ponca Creek UCC Cemetery near St. Charles.
Geneive Steffen
Jan 3, 2014
In her own words... I was born November 14, 1931 to Harold K. and Opal (Rogers) Teel. I was born at their farm home north east of Herrick, SD. Dollie Durfee (my dad's adoptive mother) was my midwife. I was the 4th of 7 siblings: 4 boys; 3 girls- Russell, Harold Jr., Ralph, Max, Ruth Ann and Lois. I attended...
Carol Perlenfein
Jan 1, 2014
Carol Perlenfein was born March 18, 1955 in Omaha, NE to Dean Russell and Betty Mae (Petersen) Sabalka. She passed away on January 1, 2014 at the Lake Andes Health Care Center at the age of 58 years after a long illness. Carol spent most of her youth in Fremont NE. where she went to school at the Lutheran Church...
Louie Janousek
Jan 1, 2014
Louie Janousek was born May 19, 1935 at Hamill South Dakota, son of Frank and Anna (Pistulka) Janousek and he died at Avera Gregory Hospital in Gregory SD on January 1, 2014 at the age of 78 years. Louie grew up in St. Charles and Fairfax areas and attended both St. Charles and Fairfax Schools graduating from Fairfax in 1953....
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....
