Erna Kallander-Bird
Oct 5, 2007
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 10:30 AM at the Union Baptist Church in Burke. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery, Burke. Visitation will be prior to the services at the church.
Irving Cressman
Sep 22, 2007
Irving Vernon Cressman, age 87, died on Saturday, September 22 at the VA Medical Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was born August 20, 1920, to Walter L. and Wilheminne Reichwaldt Cressman at Upsalla, Morrison County, Minnesota. When he was four years old he moved with his family to Coleridge, Nebraska, and in 1928 the family moved to a farm...
Barbara Beals
Sep 19, 2007
Barbara Ann Beals was born at home in Cranford, NJ, on April 15, 1934 , to Ansie and Wilhelm Schatz. She went to be with her son on September 19, 2007, at the age of 73 years. Barb grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Cranford High School in 1951. Barb met her future husband, Varner Beals, at a...
Pauline Rust
Sep 17, 2007
Pauline Marie Rust, the youngest of three children, was born May 30, 1928 near Burke, South Dakota to John and Marie (Leibel) Engelmeyer. She died September 17, 2007 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 79 years. Pauline grew up on the family farm north of Burke and received her education at the Streeter...
Henry Kortmeyer
Sep 13, 2007
Henry Julius Kortmeyer was born on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1915 to Henry C. and Maria (Schultz) Kortmeyer on the family farm south of Burke, South Dakota. He left this earthly world on September 13, 2007 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 91 years. As a young adult, Henry joined the Civilian Conservation...
Vincent Hausmann
Aug 31, 2007
Vincent Joseph John Hausmann was born August 10, 1923 at Bonesteel, South Dakota to William and Catherine (Sondgeroth) Hausmann and died August 31, 2007 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 84 years. Vincent attended St. Mary's Catholic Grade School and Bonesteel High School, graduating in 1941. He moved to Omaha, Nebraska in July...
Havor Heyden
Aug 22, 2007
Havor Gale Heyden was born January 19, 1934 to William Lloyd and Margaret (Painter) Heyden and died August 22, 2007 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 73 years. Havor was born at home on the Doty place, north of Mills, Nebraska on the Keya Paha River. In 1943 they moved to the Herman...
Cory Haiar
Aug 13, 2007
Cory Joseph Haiar was born on January 31, 1981 to Monte and Michele Haiar at Michell, SD. He died on Monday, August 13th as a result of a farming accident. Throughout high school, Cory received many awards including National FFA Beef Production Proficiency Award. He graduated high school in Broken Bow, NE in 1999. On June 7, 2002, Cory was...
June Hoffman
Jul 10, 2007
June (Willoughby) Hoffman was born to George and Elizabeth (Powell) Willoughby June 21, 1915 at Mullen, South Dakota. There is not a town of that name now, but it was close to Lucas, South Dakota. June passed away Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at the Avera Rosebud Country Care Center in Gregory at the age of 92 years. June lived on...
Cora Rhoades
Jun 25, 2007
Cora Lenora Rhoades was born February 12, 1909 at Butte, Nebraska to Fred and Carrie (Scherer) Magstad and she died June 25, 2007 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 98 years. Cora was baptized in the German Congregational Church and later joined the Burke United Methodist Church. She attended school and graduated from...
Muriel Elizabeth Wernke
Jun 9, 2007
Muriel Elizabeth (Duerfeldt) Wernke was born on August 3, 1918, at Herrick, SD, to Raymond and Olga Duerfeldt. She joined the choir of angels in heaven on June 9, 2007, while under Hospice Care of SC at the age of 88 years. Her twin brother, Melvin Duerfeldt, predeceased her. Muriel was a resident of Eden Gardens Assisted Living Aiken, SC...
Norman Klein
Jun 1, 2007
Norman Duane Klein was born February 12, 1929 at Lucas, South Dakota to Daniel and Gertrude (Roggow) Klein. He died June 1, 2007 of cancer at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 78 years. Norman attended grade school at the Ryan School in Lucas, South Dakota until the 8th grade. He then worked the...
William Guthmiller
May 21, 2007
William Bill Guthmiller was born September 17, 1924 in Fairfax, SD to Jake and Helen (Hutchison) Guthmiller. Bill died May 21, 2007 at the Long Term Care Center in Glencoe, Minnesota. He graduated from Burke High School in 1942. Bill then joined the Navy Air Corp. for four years in WWII as a turret gunner. He was married December 21,...
Penny Schonebaum
May 15, 2007
Penny Lee Schonebaum was born on Thanksgiving Day, 1955 at the Burke Hospital to Byron and Linda (Buryanek) Kelso. She entered Gods Eternal Ranch on May 15, 2007, after a five year battle with cervical cancer. During her childhood years, Penny resided in Deadwood and Sioux Falls. She graduated from Burke High School in 1974. In her adult years, Penny...
Leonard William Birkel
May 11, 2007
Leonard William Birkel was born June 30, 1925 at Rural Burke to William and Pauline (Leibel) Birkel and he died May 11, 2007 at the Burke Hospital at the age of 81 years, 10 months and 11 days. He attended Holmes School, two miles west of Burke and graduated from Burke High School in 1943. Following graduation he enlisted in...
Glen Clausen
Apr 13, 2007
Glen Paul Clausen was born April 23, 1936 in Burke, SD to parents Henry and Phyllis (Harding) Clausen. Glen died April 13, 2007 in Council Bluffs, IA at the age of 70 years. Glen attended elementary school in Burke and graduated from Burke High School in 1957. He then began working with his Dad and brother Cam at Clausen Funeral...
Amos Hoerger
Apr 10, 2007
Our beloved father, Amos Hoerger passed away April 10, 2007 in Hampton, Virginia. He was born in Lucas, SD on September 17, 1916 to Charles and Mabel Hoerger. He was the youngest of four children. He spent his early years growing up on the family farm in Lucas and still considers it his home. He will be laid to rest...
Marie Viktora
Mar 29, 2007
Marie Sophia Viktora was born on December 13, 1910 to Charles and Sophia (Wagner) Humpal in the hills of Nebraska, not far from Fairfax, SD. She was the eldest in a family seven children with two brothers and four sisters. In 1912 her folks moved the family to South Dakota where she lived most of her life. She attended a...
Rose Haisch
Mar 25, 2007
Rose Emily Riley, the foster daughter of William And Emily (Mead) Riley was born March 1, 1912 at Geddes, South Dakota and she died March 25, 2007 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 95 years. Rose was practically raised in a school house, as her mother often taught and lived in the school...
Woodrow Roggow
Mar 1, 2007
Woodrow Wilson Roggow, son of Fred E. and Nathalia (Deering) Roggow, was born January 29, 1913, east of Burke, South Dakota and he died March 1, 2007 at the Gregory Community Hospital in Gregory, South Dakota at the age of 94 years, 1 month and 2 days. Woodrow attended the Lucas Baptist Church. He lived his entire life in the...
