Berniece Hermsen
Jul 19, 2010
Berniece Hermsen was born at Fairfax, South Dakota on Feb 13, 1922 to Leo and Hope (Piper) Burke. She attended schools in Fairfax and St. Charles, graduating in 1940 from St. Charles High School. Berniece was united in marriage to Merrill (Hammie) Hermsen at St. Johns Catholic Church in Herrick, South Dakota on June 29, 1946. Together they worked in...
John Rustemeyer
Jun 19, 2010
John Sanford Rustemeyer was born January 27, 1921 at Bonesteel, South Dakota to John L. Jack and Julia (Lunderman) Rustemeyer and he died June 19, 2010 at the Good Samaritan Luther Manor in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 89 years. John was baptized as an infant and confirmed in July of 1947 in the Lutheran faith. He...
Jack Canon
Jun 18, 2010
Jack Rhoades Canon, the fourth of eight children, was born July 30, 1932 in Spirit Lake, Iowa to Roy and Ethel (Rhoades) Canon and passed away June 18th, 2010 at the home of his daughter, Jamie Leah, and his son-in-law, Anthony Huchko, in Sunrise, Florida, surrounded by his family at the age of 77 years. Jack graduated from Burke High...
Donald Cwach
Jun 10, 2010
Donald Raynald Cwach was born on February 21, 1947 to Robert and Marcella (Sedlacek) Cwach in Yankton, SD. He passed away on June 10, 2010 due to an accident on his farm near Fairfax, SD. Don grew up on a farm near Yankton with his parents and siblings. They moved to Geddes, SD when he was in elementary school. He...
Ida Mae Frasch
Jun 9, 2010
Ida Mae Frasch was born April 4, 1925 at Fairfax, South Dakota to Fred and Lydia (Weidrick) Bentz and she died June 9, 2010 at the Rosebud Country Care Center in Gregory, South Dakota at the age of 85 years. Ida grew up on the family farm near Fairfax with her eight sisters and four brothers. She was one of...
Maurice Schlaht
May 21, 2010
Maurice Gale Schlaht, the eighth of ten children, was born August 6, 1924 at Herrick, South Dakota to Daniel and Amelia (Hochhalter) Schlaht and he died May 21, 2010 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota, surrounded by his family, at the age of 85 years. Maurie received his education in Herrick and area country schools. He graduated...
Mary Duerfeldt
May 15, 2010
Mary Louise Duerfeldt was born May 23, 1953 at Gregory, South Dakota to Frank and Ruth (Sylvester) Gessner. She left this earth on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 56 years. Mary was raised and lived her life in the Burke, South Dakota and the Mills, Nebraska area. She...
Martha Mashek
May 13, 2010
Martha Matilda Mashek passed away in Sioux Falls, SD, on May 13, 2010 at the age of 96. She was born on February 27, 1914, in Winner, South Dakota to Oscar and Gertrude Haisch (Wheeler). She was the fifth of nine children and grew up as a ranchers daughter, many years of which were at the Mule Head Ranch near...
Dan Roggow
May 10, 2010
Dan Roggow was born October 5, 1919 at Lucas, South Dakota to Fred and Nathalia (Deering) Roggow and he died May 10, 2010 at the Rosebud Country Care Center in Gregory, South Dakota at the age of 90 years. Dan grew up and attended the Sunnyside School near Lucas. He was united in marriage to Stella Sufficool on October 4,...
Harvey D Red Hill
Apr 24, 2010
Harvey D. Red Hill was born March 20, 1950 to Kenneth and Marcella (Circle Fool) Red Hill Sr. at home south of St. Charles, SD during a raging blizzard. He attended St. Charles Public School and graduated from Bonesteel High School in May of 1968. He then attended Aberdeen School of Commerce Studying Senior Accounting and graduating in May of...
Bertha Nagel
Apr 18, 2010
Bertha V. Nagel was born June 18, 1911 on the family farm west of Stuart, Nebraska to Andrew and Sarah (Moon) Johnson and she died April 18, 2010 at the Butte Healthcare Center in Butte, Nebraska at the age of 98 years. Bertha was united in marriage to Melvin Riley and to this union one child, Dorothy, was born. They...
Stephanie Blue Bird
Apr 18, 2010
Stephanie Lynn Blue Bird was born August 10, 1975 at Sioux City, Iowa to Orlo and Pearl Blue Bird. She passed away April 18, 2010 at her residence in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 34 years. Stephanie grew up at St. Charles, South Dakota and attended school at Bonesteel-Fairfax where she graduated. She then enlisted in the...
Regina Koenig
Apr 15, 2010
Regina Koenig was born October 27, 1920 at Osmond, Nebr. to Frank and Emma Ulrich. She died April 15, 2010 at the age of 89 years, 5 months, and 18 days. At the age of four, she moved with her parents and two sisters, Hilda and Theresa, to the Burke, Bonesteel & Fairfax areas where their parents farmed and the...
Janice Walters
Apr 5, 2010
Janice Kay Walters was born March 30, 1962 at Burke, South Dakota to James and Lynda (Roggow) Lubbers. She passed away April 5, 2010 after a brief illness in Richfield, Minnesota at the age of 48 years. Janice grew up on the family farm northeast of Burke, SD, where she enjoyed running the hills and creek bottoms with her brothers....
Julius Nelson
Apr 3, 2010
Dr. Julius John Joseph Nelson was born in Hopkins, MN on May 5, 1923 to Rinold and Wilhelmina (Mielke) Nelson. He passed away at his home on April 3, 2010 at the age of 86 years and 11 months, surrounded by his family. Julius grew up in Hopkins and graduated from High School in 1941. He served in the Army...
Ella Bechtold
Mar 29, 2010
Ella Bud Bechtold was born March 11, 1910 to John and Minnie (Weickum) Wentz near Naper, Nebraska. She was the third of eleven children. She died March 29, 2010 at the Butte Healthcare Center in Butte, Nebraska at the age of 100 years. Ella married Johnnie Bechtold on August 29, 1928 in Burke, South Dakota. They had one son, Albert....
Hertha Freeman
Mar 25, 2010
Hertha Helena Freeman was born May 1, 1912 in a sod house 12 miles southwest of Burke, South Dakota to John and Mathilda (Huber) Fode and she died March 25, 2010 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 97 years. Hertha grew up on the family farm with her six sisters and 3 brothers....
Lenard Mayer
Mar 22, 2010
Lenard Alvin Mayer was born on February 12, 1922 in a farmhouse near Herrick, SD; the son of Jacob and Mary (Goetz) Mayer. He attended country school and then high school at Burke. He graduated from mechanics school in New York and then became an airplane mechanic during World War II being stationed at Harvard, NE. He was honorably discharged...
Alfred Carlsen
Mar 17, 2010
Alfred K. Carlsen was born on July 16, 1919 at Newell, South Dakota to Chris J. and Cecelia (Olsen) Carlsen, one of nine siblings, and passed away March 17, 2010 at the Avera Gregory Healthcare Center at the age of 90 years. Alfred spent his childhood and young adulthood on the family ranch near Castle Rock, South Dakota. In 1939,...
John Schonebaum
Mar 9, 2010
John Michael Schonebaum, 99, Naper, NE. was born Oct. 13, 1910 NW of Witten, SD in rural Tripp Co., the only child of Paul and Ella (Denker) Schonebaum. He was baptized Aug. 12, 1922 in Herrick, SD. He graduated from St. Charles, SD High School in 1930. He married Vera Zeitner on May 26, 1935 at St. Pauls Lutheran Church...
