RAPID CITY Otto Karl Ernst Haeder, died at Rapid City, South Dakota, on February 10, 2007. He was born in a farmhouse near the small village of Zagorow, Poland, on October 24, 1912, to Richard Paul Herman and Emma (Hohm) Haeder. He immigrated to the United States of America in April 1914, and the family moved to Yale, South Dakota, where he attended grade school. Mr. Haeder was graduated from Cavour High School, Cavour, South Dakota, and at the urging of his mother pursued his post-secondary education and was graduated from Huron College with a degree in Math. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America on September 7, 1920. He and Anna Margaret Steers were secretly married at St. Martin Catholic Church in Huron, South Dakota, on April 17, 1938, because Anna was teaching school in Yale at the time, and teachers were not permitted to teach school if they were married. Mr. Haeder worked as a machinist in Wisconsin and later for K.O. Lee in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He was a case worker for the South Dakota Welfare Department, in Ipswich, South Dakota, in the northeastern part of South Dakota, because he had a command of both English and German languages. He and Anna purchased a small 80-acre farm in Hartland Township, Northeast of Wolsey, South Dakota, and he worked as an electrician wiring farms for electricity in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He also took over management and operation of his fathers farm, adjacent to his own; eventually the operation bought a herd of Holstein dairy cattle and he built and managed the Grade A dairy farm until the late 1950s. Mr. Haeder was elected to Beadle County Treasurer position in 1954 through 1958, and was the South Dakota Democratic Partys 1960 nominee and candidate for State Treasurer of South Dakota. Following the 1960 general election, he began his connection with nursing homes, when he sold debenture bonds to raise funds to build a nursing home in Madison, South Dakota. Mr. Haeder was invited to interview for a position with South Dakota Hospital & Homes Association, and on August 1, 1961, he moved to Spearfish, South Dakota, to begin his career as a health care administrator. January 1, 1962, he assumed the position of Executive Secretary for the Association, which at the time owned and managed nursing homes in South Dakota, the David M. Dorsett Memorial Home of Spearfish, Kingsbury Memorial Manor in Lake Preston; John P. Shirk Home in Faulkton, Hillcrest Manor at Central City, and Don Pratt Manor in Belle Fourche. He also served as administrator for David M. Dorsett Memorial Home from 1962 through 1976. His services to South Dakota Hospital & Homes Association, later renamed North Central Health Services, Inc., Spearfish, SD, involved not only the overall management of those facilities, but he was involved in the development of Pioneer Manor, Gillette, Wyoming; Belle Fourche Health Care Center (Hospital & Long Term Care); and the development of retirement apartments in South Dakota, in Spearfish, Belle Fourche, Oldham, Orient, and Lake Preston, as well as retirement apartments adjacent to Pioneer Manor in Gillette, Wyo. Mr. Haeder was instrumental in the early development of nursing homes in South Dakota. He served as President of South Dakota Health Care Association as well as serving on the board of directors for American Health Care Association. He retired on November 7, 1977, and he and his wife traveled extensively over the next several years. He interrupted his retirement to assume the duties of Human Services Center in Yankton for a number of months. He was a member of Spearfish Toastmasters and Lions, and was a member of St. Josephs Catholic Church, Spearfish, SD. Anna, his beloved wife of over 65 years, preceded him in death in 2003. Mr. Haeder is survived by four children: Richard (Judy) of Rapid City; Dewey (Dawn) of Grangeville, Idaho; John (Linda) of Rapid City; and James (Anita) of Spearfish. He is also survived by 10 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren, two brothers, Paul, Lincoln, Nebraska; Robert, Huron, South Dakota; and two sisters, Hilda, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Esther, Wolsey, South Dakota. In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established to St. Isaac Jogues Church, Rapid City. Funeral services are scheduled for 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17, at St. Isaac Jogues Church at 221 Knollwood Dr., Rapid City, SD.