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Louie Matucha Jr.
Apr 6, 2009
Louie Junior Matucha was born March 10, 1938 on a farm near Burke, South Dakota to Louie and Sophie (Svoboda) Matucha. He died April 6, 2009 at McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 71 years. Louie and his twin sister, Louise, attended all eight years at the Rembrandt Country School and graduated from Burke High...
Clarence Mayer
Mar 17, 2009
Clarence Lawrence Mayer was born August 5, 1922 on the family farm northwest of Naper, Nebraska to Reinhold and Hattie (Stahlecker) Mayer. He died March 17, 2009 near his home at the age of 86 years. Clarence attended country school and graduated from Naper High School in 1939. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Pauls Lutheran Church in Naper....
Alice Hinken
Jan 16, 2009
Alice A. Hinken was born May 9, 1918 at Belvidere, South Dakota to August and Andrea (Peterson) Cacek. She died peacefully January 16, 2009 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 90 years and is in Heaven with her beloved Lord. Alice was the beloved wife of Linley Hinken for 64 years. Linley is...
Hollis Haisch
Jan 15, 2009
Hollis Curley Haisch was born January 24, 1912 at Winner, South Dakota to Oscar and Gertrude (Wheeler) Haisch and he died January 15, 2009 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 96 years. Curley graduated from Fairfax High School in 1930. He then began working at the Mulehead Ranch north of Bonesteel, South Dakota,...
Ida Marie Maertins
Dec 27, 2008
Ida Marie Maertins was born September 16, 1911 at Naper, Nebraska to Jacob and Katy (Risselman) Blum and she died December 27, 2008 at the Butte Healthcare Center in Butte, Nebraska at the age of 97 years. Ida was united in marriage to William Maertins on August 27, 1933. She lived in Naper all of her life. Along with William,...
Alma Hyde
Dec 20, 2008
Alma Helen Hyde was born February 1, 1911 on a farm north of Bonesteel, South Dakota to Joseph and Anna (Sondgeroth) Hausmann. She died December 20, 2008 at the Gregory Hospital in Gregory, South Dakota at the age of 97 years. Alma attended the Catholic School and graduated from the eighth grade. After graduation she helped her parents on the...
Leona Hausmann
Dec 16, 2008
Leona (Opbroek) Hausmann was born on February 7th, 1913 and died on December 16th, 2008 at the age of 95 years. She was one of 14 children born to Henry and Margaret (Ritz) Opbroek on their family farm east of Fairfax. She attended school through the 8th grade and soon after started working for the priest in Fairfax doing domestic...
Byron Lee Kelso
Dec 14, 2008
Byron Lee Kelso was born on March 21, 1937 in Burke, South Dakota to Arthur (Doc) and Alma (Larson) Kelso. Byron passed away at the age of 71 years, 8 months and 7 days on Sunday, December 14, 2008 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke. Byron was raised in Burke and attended the Burke School System, graduating in 1955....
Marie Hageman
Dec 7, 2008
M arie Louise Hageman was born September 23, 1922 to Edward and Rebecca (Kothe) Gruener on a farm near Trumbull, Nebraska, a little town northeast of Hastings, Nebraska. She died December 7, 2008 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 86 years. Marie was baptized as a baby in a country church south of...
Eva June Creekmur
Dec 3, 2008
Eva June 'Tillie' Creekmur was born June 7, 1923 at Burke, South Dakota to Emil and Margaret (Bahm) Hedlund and she died December 3, 2008 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 85 years. Eva attended grade school at Lucas, South Dakota through the eighth grade. She was united in marriage to Henry Gentele...
Derek Wade Yellow Hawk
Nov 27, 2008
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 2:00 PM at the UCC Church near Bonesteel, SD. Burial will be in the Ponca UCC Cemetery near St. Charles, SD. There will be a wake that begins Monday at 6:00 PM at the Church and will continue until the time of the services at the church. Derek died...
Daniel Bruntz
Nov 18, 2008
Daniel Fred 'Dan' Bruntz was born January 15, 1923 at Dallas, South Dakota to Fred and Lydia (Kinsvater) Bruntz and he died November 18, 2008 on his farm south of Herrick, South Dakota at the age of 85 years. Dan graduated from Gregory High School in 1941. He later moved to Lodi, California where he worked in the vineyards. Coming...
Gerald Eugene Kulm
Nov 7, 2008
Gerald Eugene Kulm, the second son of a family of four born to Rudolph and Clara (Ahlers) Kulm, was born November 23, 1939 at Burke, South Dakota. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Naper, Nebraska where he was a life-long member. Gerald's boyhood was spent on the Otto Ahlers farm, northwest of Naper. District #...
Genevieve Miller
Oct 22, 2008
Genevieve Miller came into this world on May 18, 1922 to OW and Amy (Gilbronson) Allum. She spent her young life on a farm 11 miles south of Burke. She attended the Allum School for eight years and then went to Burke High School. She received her GED diploma from Sinte Gileska in 1975. Genevieve married Everett L. Miller on...
Jeannie Odenbach
Oct 18, 2008
Jeannie Marie (Wiarda) Odenbach, daughter of Cecil and Bernice (Fischer) Wiarda, was born May 21, 1953, in Watertown , South Dakota. She grew up on a farm near Castlewood in Hamlin County South Dakota. She graduated from Castlewood High school in 1971. Jeannie graduated with an Elementary Education Major and an Art minor from Black Hills State College in 1974....
Earl Glen Sieh
Oct 15, 2008
Earl Glen Sieh was born on Dec. 29, 1921, to George and Anna (Becker)Sieh on the family farm west of Naper, Nebr. He attended country school through the 8th grade. He played baseball with the Naper team for several years. He helped his dad with the farm work and also worked for several other farmers in the area before he...
Lionel Delmar Neilan
Oct 11, 2008
Lionel Delmar Neilan was born June 11, 1936 in Bonesteel, SD to Martin and Edith Adella (Reinoehl) Neilan. He died October 11, 2008 at the Good Samaritan Village in Sioux Falls, SD at the age of 72 years and 4 months after a long and courageous battle with a very rare disease, Progressive Supra-nuclear Palsy (PSP). Lionel was baptized on...
Esther Florence Smikle
Oct 8, 2008
Esther Florence Smikle was born April 26, 1924 in Fairfax, South Dakota, the only child of Otto and Emma (Dietz) Nachtigal and she died October 8, 2008 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota. When Esther was 2 years old, they moved from their ranch on Scalp Creek, east of Fairfax, to the Nachtigal homestead on the south...
Mary Applebee
Sep 26, 2008
Mary Beth Applebee was born May 15, 1935 at Bonesteel, South Dakota to John and Ethel (Hagadorn) Applebee and she died September 26, 2008 at the Gregory Healthcare Center in Gregory, South Dakota at the age of 73 years. Mary lived in Bonesteel her entire life. She graduated from Bonesteel High School in 1956. She was a child care provider...
Garry Frank Lewis
Sep 22, 2008
Rememberance Celebration services will be held Saturday, October 11, 2008 from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. at the Butte Parish Hall in Butte, Nebraska.
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