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....
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,...
