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Esther Delaney
Dec 25, 2005
Esther Clementine Delaney was born July 18, 1910 at Fairfax, South Dakota to Kris and Kathryn (Stroh) Bollingner and she died December 25, 2005 at the Wagner Good Samaritan Center Nursing Home in Wagner, South Dakota at the age of 95 years, 5 months and 7 days. At an early age, Esther moved with her family to Java, South Dakota....
James Rue
Dec 20, 2005
James Clinton Rue Sr. was born September 8, 1930 to Martin Benjamin and Kjerstine Bertine (Midtaune) Rue. He grew up on a farm near Oak Lake in Brookings County S.D. He attended grade school in District 63 and graduated from Hendricks High School. He helped his dad farm before he went on to work construction where he became superintendent of...
Olive Wilson
Dec 17, 2005
Olive Josephine (Gibson) Wilson was born July 23, 1905 at Keya Paha, Nebr. to Francis Gibson and Euphemia (Wagner) Gibson. Olive was the seventh child of eleven. In 1906 the family moved to Carlock, S.D. Her parents homesteaded in South Dakota they purchased the store at Brocksburg, Neb in 1912. Olive worked at the store, helped in the Post Office...
Joseph Watson
Dec 8, 2005
Funeral services for JOSEPH WATSON, age 88, of Parkston, SD will be held on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 1:00 PM at Clausen Funeral Home in Burke. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery, Burke. Visitation will be 1 hour prior to the services at the funeral home.
Adolph Schultz
Nov 29, 2005
Adolph R. Schultz was born March 4, 1911 at Naper, Nebraska to William and Martha (Lange) Schultz. He died November 29, 2005 at the Atkinson Good Samaritan Center Nursing Home in Atkinson, Nebraska at the age of 94 years, 8 months and 25 days. Adolph was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. He lived and farmed south of Naper....
Wayne Frank
Nov 25, 2005
Elmer Wayne Frank was born to Elmer A and Lynetta (Krambeck) Frank on August 6, 1929, at Lynch, Nebraska. He died November 25, 2005 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 76 years. Wayne attended all twelve years of school at Bonesteel, South Dakota. After graduation he worked for Miller Electric, wiring homes for...
Joann Janousek
Nov 21, 2005
JoAnn Janousek was born May 5, 1938 at Lynch, Nebraska, the only child of Joe and Clara (Klundt) Ohri and she died at the Gregory Health Care Center in Gregory, South Dakota on November 21, 2005 at the age of 67 years. JoAnn grew up in the Fairfax area and attended Fairfax Public School. On June 1, 1955, she was...
Ray Spitzenberger
Oct 13, 2005
Ray Spitzenberger, age 85, of Bonesteel, died Thursday, October 13, 2005, at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota. Funeral services will be 11:00 A.M. Monday, October 17, 2005, at Clausen Funeral Home in Burke, with interment at Rosebud Cemetery in Bonesteel. Visitations will be from 5-7 P.M. Sunday at the funeral home. Ray Spitzenberger was born April 21,...
Jerome Klas
Oct 10, 2005
Jerome Victor Klas was born October 14, 1923 on a farm near Burke, South Dakota to Victor and Elizabeth (Hotz) Klas and died October 10, 2005 at Sturgis, SD Community Health Care Center. Jerry grew up in the farming country near Burke and attended high school there. He moved with the family to a farm near Herrick about 1941 and...
Ethel Hanson
Oct 2, 2005
Marjorie Ethel Hanson, known to all as Ethel, passed away October 2, 2005 at the Winner Regional Healthcare Center at the age of 85 years. Ethel was born to Frank and Rose (Herman) McKenzie on February 20, 1920 at her parental home south of St. Charles, South Dakota. She attended school south of Bonesteel through the 8th grade. She then...
Donna Andrews
Sep 14, 2005
Donna Mae Andrews was born May 31, 1936 at her home (now the housing area) to Jesse Andrews, Sr. and Martha (Mercy) Andrews. Donna died September 14, 2005 at the Good Samaritan Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 69 years, 3 months and 13 days. Donna spent her childhood in rural Bonesteel. She attended school at...
Raymond Bentzen
Sep 4, 2005
Raymond Christian Bentzen was born June 3, 1928 at the farm home of his parents, Otto and Hannah (Feldt) Bentzen. He lived his entire life 1 mile east and 1/4 mile north of Naper, Nebraska, except for the two years spent in the U.S. Army. Raymond passed away Sunday morning, September 4, 2005 at Avera St. Anthonys Hospital in ONeill,...
Marjorie Kortmeyer
Aug 20, 2005
Marjorie Kortmeyer was born to Jacob D. and Libbie (Moses) Boucher on March 3, 1921, on a farm near Dallas, SD, and died at the Gregory Community Hospital on August 20, 2005, at the age of 84 years, 5 months, and 17 days. She had been a resident of the Rosebud Country Care Center for one and a half years....
Kate Heermann
Aug 12, 2005
Katie (Kate) Dorothea (Wilhelmsen) Heermann was born April 27, 1919 at Rise Denmark, to parents Pete and Sophie Wilhelmsen. Kate died on Aug 12, 2005 at Sierra Vista, Arizona. At the age of 86 years, 3 months, 15 days. Kate was baptized in Rise Denmark and confirmed in the Lutheran faith at Klugs school house in Jamison, Nebraska. Kate came...
Mildred Sip
Aug 12, 2005
Mildred Ruth Sip, daughter of Julius and Grace Kortmeyer, was born June 3, 1914 on a small farmstead south of Burke, SD. She had several siblings including five sisters, Alice, Grace, Jane, Laura, and Mable, and 2 brothers Almon and Arthur. Another brother, Louie, died in infancy before Mildred was born. Mildred's first four years were spent on the Burke...
Buzz Schonebaum
Jul 24, 2005
Jerry Buzz Lee Schonebaum was born April 20, 1952 in Burke, South Dakota to Walter and Phyllis (Kirsch) Schonebaum and he died July 24, 2005 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 53 years, 3 months and 4 days after a long battle with cancer. Buzz was raised on the family farm southwest of...
John Steffen
Jul 22, 2005
John Frederick Steffen was born October 17, 1907, at the Steffen homestead southwest of Burke to Fritz and Ottelia (Roeder) Steffen. He died July 22, 2005 at the Rosebud Country Care Center in Gregory at the age of 97 years, 9 months and 5 days. John attended school at the Bottomstone (later Volmer) School #82 in Jones Township graduating from...
Stena Frasch
Jul 19, 2005
Christine Maria Stena Frasch age 98 of Winner, SD and formerly of Burke, SD passed away Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at the Winner Nursing Home. Christine Maria Stena Frasch was born August 8, 1906 in rural Bonesteel, SD to Heinrik and Elisa (Peetz) Hattig. Stena attended country school at Pleasant Valley District #14 in Bonesteel, SD through the 8th grade....
Neva Johnson
Jul 15, 2005
Neva Margaret Tiny Johnson was born June 7, 1923 at Burke, South Dakota to Emil and Margaret (Bahm) Hedlund and she died July 15, 2005 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 82 years, 1 month and 8 days. Tiny attended school at Lucas, South Dakota through the eighth grade. She was united in...
Edwin Woehl
Jul 9, 2005
Edwin John Woehl was born February 4, 1919 at Colome, South Dakota to John and Mary (Bohnet) Woehl and he died July 9, 2005 at the Gregory Healthcare Center in Gregory, South Dakota at the age of 86 years, 5 months and 5 days. In 1920, Edwins parents moved the family to a farm south of Burke, South Dakota, where...
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