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David Smizer
Apr 6, 2005
David Lee Smizer was born January 17, 1957 in the Burke Hospital to Harlan and Dorothy (Ulrich) Smizer and he died April 6, 2005 at Derby, Kansas at the age of 48 years, 2 months and 19 days. David attended school in Burke, graduating from Burke High School in 1975. He was a standout at BHS and received many honors...
Howard Williamson
Mar 23, 2005
Howard Merlin Casey Williamson was born June 20, 1933 at Herrick, South Dakota to Lloyd and Nettie (Oamek) Williamson and he died March 23, 2005 at St. Lukes Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa, due to complications of diabetes, at the age of 71 years, 9 months and 3 days. Merlin spent his youth on the family farm. He attended Burke...
Gregory Gessner
Mar 19, 2005
Gregory Lynn Gessner was born February 23, 1970 at Gregory, South Dakota to Mary (Gessner) Duerfeldt and he died March 19, 2005 at Denver, Colorado at the age of 35 years and 26 days. Greg spent most of his life in the Mills area. He entered the Army in the fall of 1988, where he served two years, one of...
Bertha Putnam
Mar 8, 2005
Bertha Mary Putnam was born May 22, 1910, in a sod house in Gregory County, ten miles south of Dallas, to John and Mary Elizabeth (Weis) Determan. She passed away peacefully on March 8, 2005, after a short illness. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m, Friday, March 11, at St. John's Catholic Church, Paxton, SD (10 miles south...
Viola Lund
Feb 27, 2005
Viola Mae Lund was born December 19, 1917 at Dawson, Nebraska to Charles and Nora (Harris) Stevicks and she died peacefully at her home in Burke, South Dakota, on February 27, 2005 at the age of 87 years, 2 months and 8 days. In 1919, Vis parents moved from Table Rock, Nebraska, with her eleven brothers and sisters, to a...
Ruth Genzlinger Corey
Feb 21, 2005
Ruth Laverna Genzlinger Corey was born February 1, 1908 at Osmond, Nebraska to John and Agnes (McGill) Turner, and she died February 21, 2005, at the Hi-Park Care Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, at the age of 97 years and 20 days. Ruth attended a rural school near Osmond, Nebraska. When she was seven years old, her parents moved to...
Viola Waterbury
Feb 17, 2005
Viola Waterbury was born November 5, 1929 east of Herrick, South Dakota on the Klundt farm to Fred and Ernestine (Ulmer) Frank. She died February 17, 2005 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Burke, South Dakota at the age of 75 years, 3 months and 12 days. Viola was born to a family of four brothers and four sisters. She...
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