Elton Lee Prouty
Jun 22, 2019
Elton was born November 9, 1947, in Watertown, SD, to Brace and Elsie (Yonker) Prouty. Raised on the family farm in Hamlin County, SD, he was drafted into the Army during Vietnam. Once out of the Army, he and his brother, Glenn, started Prouty Construction, and he started building homes and a family with Cathy (Jorgenson) Prouty. From his...
Carole Emma (Bolash) Zoll
Jun 21, 2019
Carole Emma (Bolash) Zoll, formerly of Struthers, OH, passed away peacefully Friday morning, June 21, 2019, at her home in Summerset. Carole was born January 31, 1939, in Struthers, the daughter of Stephen and Ruth Bolash, Sr., and was one of nine children. She was a 1956 graduate of Struthers High School. She married Robert E. Zoll on November...
Delbert "Sonny" Lloyd Harbaugh, Jr.
Jun 21, 2019
Delbert "Sonny" Lloyd Harbaugh, Jr., was born May 23, 1932, in Rapid City, SD, in a house that later washed away in the flood of 1972. He lived on Haines Avenue until age 11 when his father landed a job at the Black Hills Ordnance Depot in Igloo, SD. He graduated from Provo High School in 1950. He attended...
Eugene Wayne Beutner
Jun 19, 2019
Eugene Wayne Beutner, 91, passed away Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at the South Dakota State Veteran's Home in Hot Springs.
He was born September 1, 1927 in White Lake, SD to Gustaf and Viola (Minor) Beutner.
Eugene proudly served in the United States Army.
He is survived by his daughters, Julie (Mike) Pokorney...
Hilda Elizabeth "Sandy" Baier
Jun 18, 2019
Hilda Elizabeth "Sandy" (Sandvand) Baier was born July 24, 1934, in Seattle, WA, where she met and married Edward Dean Baier on August 20, 1959. They moved to Rapid City, SD, and later to Sturgis. Throughout her life, Sandy was very active with her husband. She enjoyed metal detecting and rock hounding. In recent years, she greeted for, and...
Brian Marcus Boesen
Jun 16, 2019
Brian Marc Boesen, 59, passed away Sunday, June 16, 2019 at his home in Rapid City.
He was born in Grand Island, Nebraska to Marcus and Virginia (Morse) Boesen on July 30, 1959. The family moved to Spearfish, SD where Brian grew up and attended school, receiving his Associate Degree from Black Hills State University.
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Berdena Grace Huston
Jun 16, 2019
Berdena Grace Huston was born September 11, 1931, to Hyltje "Bill" and Sadie (Oldenkamp) Dykema in Okaton, SD. She was the second born of six children, three boys and three girls. Her early years were spent growing up on the family farm in Jones County, northwest of Murdo, SD. She was named after her maternal grandmother, Dena. Her ancestry...
David Gleason Rathbun
Jun 16, 2019
David Gleason Rathbun, 84, of Nisland, SD passed away on Sunday, June 16 at his home on the farm.
David was born on August 18, 1934 in Freemont, Nebraska to Marion Joy and Jack Rathbun. The family later moved to his grandfather's farm in Nisland. David attended school in Nisland, graduating in 1952. He enlisted in the...
Linda Yvonne Peterson
Jun 16, 2019
Linda was born January 28, 1947, in Sturgis, SD, to Lee and Doris (Chord) Mickelson. She grew up at their home just north of Enning, SD, where she attended grade school in rural Meade County. Upon finishing the eighth grade, she attended Sunshine Bible Academy, a Christian boarding school, where she was very homesick. When she got a chance...
Jerome Terrell Kindell
Jun 14, 2019
Jerome was born, February 7, 1994, at Sumter Shaw AFB, SC, to Jerome Kindell and Carla Valmont. Jerome graduated from Woodside High School in Virginia. He spent time playing football, basketball, working out, reading, and playing PlayStation. Jerome liked to cook, adding his own spin to recipes, and especially loved his grandma's sweet potato pie and ice cream, and...
Neil William Smeenk
Jun 14, 2019
Neil William Smeenk was born in Rapid City on May 15, 1951, the fifth of six children, to Doris (Maass) and William Smeenk. Neil was raised on the family farm on Horse Creek, west of Newell. He would gleefully dive into the middle of a fight with his three brothers--this likely helped create his tough and stubborn spirit. Neil...
Cynthia Jean Machado
Jun 14, 2019
Sergeant Cynthia Jean Machado passed away unexpectedly and peacefully on June 14, 2019, in Rapid City, SD. Cynthia proudly served in the US Army as an MP and did three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. She joined her brother in Heaven, Ronald Victor Machado. She is survived by her parents, Scott and Colleen Machado and Teresa Gonzales;...
Danny "Dan" Ray Vansickle
Jun 10, 2019
Dan was born May 11, 1954, in Sturgis, SD, to Roy and Mildred (Ellefson) VanSickle. He grew up in the Castle Rock area, graduating from Newell High School. He met and later married the love of his life, Cheryl, on October 24, 1973. Dan liked team roping, hunting, riding horses, and especially music, playing guitar and singing for the...
Jerry Loyd Griffith
Jun 9, 2019
Gerald Loyd "Jerry" Griffith was born June 18, 1943, at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, KS, to Loyd and Violet Griffith. He attended first through eighth grades at Longfellow school then attended and graduated from Westport High School in Kansas City, MO, in 1955. He went to Iowa State College in Ames, IA, where he graduated....
Robert Eugene Hedge
Jun 9, 2019
Robert was born June 16, 1959, in St. Louis, MO, to Freddie Eugene and Mary Ellen (Kennedy) Hedge. He moved to the Black Hills in 1978, and moved to the Rochford area in November of 1990. Things he enjoyed doing in his younger years were baseball, camping, fishing, and hunting. Also, he enjoyed shooting guns with family and friends,...
Denton Ritty Lund
Jun 8, 2019
Denton Lund made his transition into the light in the early morning of June 8, 2019. Being an artist for his entire life, he was always observant of the light. He had been in hospice care at the VA Health Care Center in Fort Meade, SD since February. He was blessed with a wonderful and caring hospice team-angels all....
Mary Lou Davis
Jun 8, 2019
Mary Lou Davis was born July 7, 1923, to Thomas Francis and Zella Odette (Hamlin) Brooks in Aberdeen, SD. She had one older brother, Bob. She was raised on a farm located six miles west of Aberdeen. She graduated from Aberdeen Central High School in 1941. She attended Northern State College and South Dakota State College, graduating in 1949...
Kyle Christopher Reynolds
Jun 8, 2019
Kyle Christopher Reynolds, 24, passed away Saturday, June 8, 2019. Kyle Christopher Reynolds was born July 24, 1994, to Sheila Houchin and Christopher Reynolds. When Kyle was little, he thoroughly enjoyed playing Zelda with his mom. She recalled that she had a silky nightgown she never got to use because he had to sleep with it. He called it...
Rick Robert Robinson
Jun 3, 2019
Ricki "Rick" Robinson was born in Riverton, Wyoming, on February 20, 1960. He passed away on June
3, 2019, at Rapid City Regional Hospital from pneumonia and other complications related to a heart
attack he suffered several years ago. In his usual fashion—eager to try the next thing, willing to find the...
Toby Tom Ted Tyler Marvin
Jun 3, 2019
Toby was born August 19, 1982, in Gillette, WY, to his loving parents, John and Carol Marvin. He spent his younger years growing up on the Durham Buffalo Ranch in Wyoming along with his older sister, Dawn (Brian) Morgan, older brothers, John Marvin, Jr. and Melvin (Krista) Marvin, and sisters, Jessie (Mason) Abell, and Dorothy Marvin. The family moved...
