Betty Bea Mann
Apr 13, 2016
Betty Beatrice "Bea" Mann a resident of the Michael J. Fitzmaurice SD State Veterans Home, died Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 89 years old.
She was born November 3, 1926 in Hamill, SD and married her high school sweetheart Vernon on December 14, 1946 in Valentine NE. They lived on a ranch at Dog Ear Lake in...
Dara Ann Reynolds
Apr 12, 2016
Spitfire, "a good kid", opinionated, loyal, class clown, loving - these are just a few words used to describe Dara. Dara was killed in a motor vehicle accident early Tuesday morning. Dara was born April 18, 1996. She grew up in Sturgis spending much of her childhood living with her Grandma Patty and Grandpa Wayne. Dara graduated from Sturgis...
Harold Loy Davis
Apr 12, 2016
Harold was born in Sturgis, SD, to Bernard and Freida (Sjullie) Davis. He was one of six children born to Bernard and Freida. Harold graduated from Sturgis Brown High School then served two years in the United States Army. Following his honorable discharge, he returned to Sturgis where he worked for Junior Hurley then McKie Chevrolet/Hersruds as the parts...
Vivian Ellen Myrick
Apr 11, 2016
Vivian was born August 28, 1929, in Aberdeen, SD to Harry and Inga (Olson) Gant. She attended 1st through 10th grade at the Brentford Consolidated Schools. She attended 11th and 12th grade at Augustana Academy in Canton, SD, graduating in May 1947. Vivian started working March 15, 1948, for the Internal Revenue Service in Aberdeen. Except for intermittent breaks,...
Tom Enoch Haffield
Apr 11, 2016
Tom Enoch Haffield, 77, Hot Springs, SD, died April 11, 2016 at the Michael J. Fitzmaurice SD Veterans Home in Hot Springs.
Tom was born in Nebraska to Milo and Gertrude (Farmer) Haffied on October 16, 1938. He served in the US Navy during the Vietnam War and is buried at Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis, SD....
Loren Bruce Boettcher
Apr 10, 2016
Loren Bruce Boettcher was born, July 1, 1960, in Sacramento, CA, to Bruce and June Boettcher, having traveled with his family in his younger years. The family moved to Haviland, KS, where he attended elementary school and most of high school. Moving to Washington State, he graduated from Bothel High School. Returning once more to Haviland, Loren attended Friends...
Kay Ardith Fletcher
Apr 10, 2016
Kay Ardith (Reich) Fletcher was born at high noon on August 20, 1931, at Dupree, SD, the first daughter of Frances (Jewett) and Johnnie Reich. The family lived in the Dupree vicinity when Kay was a small child, moving to a ranch on the Moreau River in 1939, where Kay grew up to womanhood. She attended her first grade...
Carolyn Ann Oedekoven
Apr 10, 2016
Carolyn Ann Smith was born August 15, 1928, at Newell, SD, to Clarence and Halya (Ekstrom) Smith. She attended school in Newell, SD. Carolyn married Standly Oedekoven on October 3, 1948. They lived on the family ranch on Nine Mile Creek near Vale, SD. Three children were born to this union: Rick, Darrell, and Carol. They moved to Sturgis...
Bonnie Arlene Drews
Apr 9, 2016
On December 28, 1928, Bonnie was born on a farm in southwest Nebraska to Arthur and Elsie Berndt. The family later moved to northwest Kansas to another farm. She attended country school in Cedar Bluffs, KS, through the 8th grade. She went to high school in McCook, NE, and later graduated from North Central Bible Institute in Minneapolis, MN....
Frances Caroline Waterson
Apr 9, 2016
Francis "Caroline" Waterson, 86, of St. Onge, died Saturday, April 9, 2016, at the David M. Dorsett Health Care Facility in Spearfish.
Caroline was born in South Dakota on January 12, 1930 to Francis James and Laura (Rolando) McNeill.
Services will be 7 p.m. Saturday, April 16, 2016, at the Kinkade Funeral Chapel in Sturgis....
James Everett Simmons
Apr 9, 2016
James was born June 30, 1937, In Sioux Falls, SD, to Everett and Dorothy (Cottingham) Simmons. He graduated from Harrisburg High School in Harrisburg, SD, in 1955 where he excelled in sports, which he enjoyed his entire life, and was crowned Homecoming King. James served in the US Army, 82nd Airborne, as a Paratrooper Medic out of Ft. Bragg,...
Fern Ellen Blow
Apr 8, 2016
Fern was born August 8, 1939, in Faith, SD, to Ray and Dolly (Hart) Hughes. They lived in Plainview, SD, until 1942 when they moved to Sturgis. Fern graduated from Sturgis High School in 1958. Fern married Don Goff on February 5, 1957, and they had five children: Ronald, Bart, Dan, Berniece, and Wesley. She married Vern Blow in...
Donald Eugene Harnish
Apr 8, 2016
Donald Eugene Harnish, 58, Box Elder, SD, died April8, 2016 at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs Hospital, Fort Meade, SD.
Donald was born in Colorado to James and Donna (Toupal) Harnish on May 5, 1957.
He served in the US Air Force and interred at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, SD.
John Ellis Betts
Apr 8, 2016
John was born in Evergreen, Colorado to John Ellis Betts Sr and Linnea Othelia (Berggen) Betts on July 5, 1939. He was the second child of four. His parents owned and operated a pharmacy/grocery store in Evergreen before moving to Denver in the 1940's. John was active in ROTC at East High School in Denver, CO and upon graduating...
Lucile Ann Sundstrom
Apr 7, 2016
Lucy was born the first of ten children to Roland & Theresa (Erhardt) Molitor in Lemmon, SD. Lucy graduated from Faith High School in 1956. She married Wayne Sundstrom the following autumn, on November 17, 1956, in Faith, SD. Over the next 15 years, Lucy and Wayne would make their home in Oregon, Wyoming, the Southern Black Hills, and...
Michael Lawrence Liebespeck
Apr 5, 2016
Mike was born to William and Eleanor (Barstch) Liebespeck on February 12, 1951, in St. Louis, MO. The family moved to California where he spent his childhood years. He joined the Army at age 17 and served for two years before returning home and working with his dad at Junior Steel. The traveling bug soon hit Mike which led...
Melodie Lynn Lewis
Apr 3, 2016
Melodie was born February 14, 1959, at Bryan, OH, to Clyde Duane and Carol Eileen (Franklin) Mowry. She graduated from Cabool School in 1977 and worked in an office setting until October 1980, when she entered missionary work in Missouri, Arkansas and Indiana for the next 17 years. On August 30, 2000, she married Tommy W. Lewis of Nisland,...
Paul Clayton Getz
Apr 3, 2016
Paul Clayton Getz, 76, Rapid City, SD, died April 3, 2016 at the Kadoka Nursing Home, Kadoka, SD.
Paul was born February 18, 1940 in Minnesota to Paul and Ida (Johnson) Getz. He worked as an apple orchardist.
He served in US Air Force and his final resting place is Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis,...
George S. Lyons
Apr 2, 2016
George was born February 21, 1946, in Saratoga WY, and was raised in Pine Bluffs, WY. He graduated from P.B. High School in 1964. George and Sandra (Smith) were married in 1967. Together, they raised two sons. George worked his entire career in service to rural electrification, having worked for Wyrulec in Lingle, WY, Wheatbelt Public Power District in...
Robert "Bob" Harry Schummer
Apr 1, 2016
Bob was born November 5, 1917, at Sturgis, SD, to Domnick and Susie (Karrels) Schummer. He grew up on the family farm 18 miles east of Sturgis where he worked until it was sold. He married Edna Yates in June 1947 and they lived in Sturgis. After the marriage ended, Bob moved to Deadwood where he was employed by...
