Larry Ott
Sep 24, 2009
Larry Edward Ott was born May 23, 1938 in the home of his German immigrant grandparents at Fairfax, South Dakota. He was the son of Frederick (Fred) George Ott and Esther Marie (Fuhrer) Ott. He spent his early life on the family farm south of Bonesteel, South Dakota. He received his education through the tenth grade at Bonesteel and graduated...
Verdis Herman
Sep 18, 2009
Graveside services will be held on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM at the Lucas Cemetery near Lucas, South Dakota.
Helmer Anton Jensen
Sep 12, 2009
Helmer Anton Jensen was born November 20, 1945 at Lynch, Nebraska, the only son of Anton and Rose (Cotton) Jensen. He passed away September 12, 2009 at his home surrounded by his loved ones after a short battle with cancer. Helmer was raised on the family ranch east of Fairfax and graduated from Fairfax High School in 1962. He was...
Catherine Cressman
Aug 28, 2009
Catherine N. Cressman age 81 died on Friday, August 28,2009 at the Avera Gregory Healthcare Center following a short struggle with schlerosing sarcoma. Catherine Naomi Cressman was born at home in Herrick, SD, September 7, 1927 to C. Luther Cressman and Naomi Ruth Jeffords Cressman. Catherine had an older sister, Evelyn and has a younger brother, Charles. In 1929, at...
Betty Lambert
Aug 27, 2009
Betty Lou Lambert was born December 5, 1927 at Fairfax, South Dakota to Emanuel and Julia (Turnovec) Walth and she died August 27, 2009 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 81 years. Betty attended school in Fairfax, graduating in 1945. After graduation she went to Hastings, Nebraska to work. There she met Robert...
Tristan Jade Schmitz
Aug 16, 2009
Tristan Jade Schmitz was born February 28, 1997 in Winner, South Dakota to Dwayne Donald and Angela Marie (Gill) Schmitz and died Sunday August 16, 2009 near Tea South Dakota, at the age of 12. He was baptized at Immaculate Conception Catholic church in Bonesteel, South Dakota on February 28, 1999. His godparents were his aunt and uncle Brian and...
Mary Andersen
Aug 10, 2009
Mary Andersen was born in Ogallala, NE on August 24, 1936. Surrounded by her family and loving friends prayers Mary left her earthly home August 10, 2009 at 1:52 pm Arizona time. Through the journey her family was able to provide comfort and care at home with the assistance of Hospice of the Valley. Left to mourn her passing is...
August Steffen
Jul 10, 2009
August Steffen Jr. was born July 18, 1926 in Burke, SD and passed away at his home July 10, 2009, just eight days prior to his 83rd birthday. August was the youngest of eight children born to August Steffen, Sr. and Pearl Martin Steffen. He grew up on the family farm nine miles south of Burke and attended country school...
Mary Schmitz
Jun 26, 2009
Mary Catherine Schmitz age 94 of Bonesteel, SD passed away Friday June 26, 2009 at the Avera Rosebud Country Care Center in Gregory. Mary Catherine (Darcy) Schmitz was born June 4, 1915 in Stephen, MN to Michael and Jennie (Bulger) Darcy. She lived in Nebraska with her family for a short while and then moved to Bonesteel where Mary graduated...
Rita Pistulka
Jun 23, 2009
Rita Johanna (Nies) Pistulka, daughter of John & Sophia (Opbroek) Nies, was born on November 13, 1924 on the family farm southwest of Bonesteel. She passed away on June 23, 2009 at the Rosebud Avera Healthcare Center in Gregory SD at the age of 84. Rita was the eleventh child in a family of thirteen. She grew up working on...
Bernice Tietgen
Jun 13, 2009
Bernice Annabelle McKenzie was born on April 9, 1924 at the family farm near Bonesteel to Frank and Rose (Herman) McKenzie. She passed away on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD. She had nine siblings. We heard many stories over the years of the hard work and all of the fun they had growing up....
Ida Marie Martin
Jun 1, 2009
Ida Marie (Stellwag) Martin, one of ten children, was born April 27, 1934, to Hans and Clara (Faatz) Stellwag. She was born and raised on the Stellwag family farmstead south of Gregory, SD. She attended school at Pleasant Site Grade School until the 8th grade at Carlock, SD, and later graduated from Gregory High School in 1952. She was employed...
Larry Schrader
May 9, 2009
Larry Dean Schrader, 65, of Winner, SD, passed away at home with family by his side, Saturday, May 9, 2009, after a battle with brain cancer. Larry was born January 3, 1944, at Jamison, NE, one of seventeen children, to Emanuel and Beulah (Bennett) Schrader. He attended Spotted Tail School of Jamison, NE, through the eighth grade. He helped on...
Gladys Norberg
Apr 29, 2009
Gladys Jean Norberg was born December 11, 1929 in Burke, South Dakota the only daughter of Harold, Sr. and Gladys (Hill) Gunvordahl. She died April 29, 2009 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 79 years. Jean attended school and graduated from Burke High School and the University of South Dakota. She taught school...
Yvonne Spitzenberger
Apr 22, 2009
Yvonne Evelyn (Halverson) Spitzenberger was born October 12, 1922, at Newman Grove, Nebraska, to Christian Bernard and Adelia Madolin (Powell) Halverson. She died Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 86 years. Yvonne moved with her family at an early age to a farm on Petes Creek north of Herrick,...
Alice Mae Mitchell
Apr 15, 2009
Alice Mae Mitchell was born November 12, 1928 at her home southwest of Naper, Nebraska to William and Anna (Stahlecker) Ullrich. She died April 15, 2009 at the Gregory Community Hospital in Gregory, South Dakota at the age of 80 years. Alice attended rural school in Boyd County, Nebraska and graduated from Butte High School in 1947. She then taught...
Curtis Dean Dobesh
Apr 12, 2009
Curtis Dean Dobesh was born April 7, 1988 at Burke, South Dakota to Rod and Paula (Liewer) Dobesh. He was the second of five children. He died April 12, 2009 at Burke, South Dakota at the age of 21 years. Curt was definitely outnumbered by his four sisters, but he loved them - every one of them! He spent his...
Mae Kershner
Apr 7, 2009
Mae Kershner, 94, Herrick, formerly of Buffalo, Wyoming, was called home Tuesday, April 7, 2009. She was born March 8, 1915 in Buffalo to James and Georgia (Dowlin) Still. She grew up in Buffalo and Fort Dodge, Iowa where she graduated from high school. Mae returned to Buffalo were she met and married the love of her life L.H. (Ole)...
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....
