Ursa Mavis Symonds
Oct 18, 2014
Mavis Symonds, 83, passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at Rapid City Regional Hospital, surrounded by her family. Visitation will be held at Kinkade Funeral Chapel on Wednesday, October 22, 2014, from 12-8 p.m. Funeral Services will be held at 10:00am on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014, at Kinkade Funeral Chapel in Sturgis with Pastor Harold Delbridge officiating....
Floyd L. "Vern" Shinabarger
Oct 18, 2014
Floyd L. "Vern" Shinabarger, 79, Sturgis, passed away Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the Ft. Meade VA Medical Center following a lingering illness. Vern Shinabarger was born May 26, 1935 at Bison, SD to Warren and Lena (Schwandt) Shinabager. He grew up in the Bison/ Prairie City area before he joined the service. After serving a term in both...
Darwin Lee Reimer
Oct 18, 2014
Darwin L. Reimer, 51, Gillette, WY, died Saturday, October 18, 2014 while working near Wright, WY. Visitation will be Thursday, October 23, 2014, from 4-8 p.m. at Kinkade Funeral Chapel in Sturgis. Funeral services will be Friday, October 24, 2014, at 2 p.m. at Kinkade Funeral Chapel in Sturgis with Pastor Jared Tucher officiating. Burial will follow at Bear...
Isabel D. Bixby
Oct 17, 2014
Isabel D. Bixby, 85, Whitewood, SD, passed away October 17, 2014 at Sturgis Regional Hospital, Sturgis, SD.
Isabel was born in Iowa to Lawrence and Marie Agnes (Blackford) Swecker.
Cremation has taken place and no services are planned at this time.
James Elton Green
Oct 16, 2014
James Elton Green, 81, Rapid City, SD, died on Thursday, October 16, 2014, at Weston County Manor in Newcastle, WY.
James served in the US Navy during Korea. Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 1:00pm at Black Hills National Cemetery. Military honors will be provided by Sturgis Veterans Honor Guard.
Matthew S. Leetch
Oct 16, 2014
Matthew S. Leetch, Jr., 73, Piedmont, passed away on October 16, 2014, in Loveland, Colorado after complications from heart surgery. Funeral services will be held at 2:00pm on Monday, November 10, 2014, at Grace United Methodist Church in Piedmont with Pastor Karl Kroger officiating. Burial will follow at Piedmont Cemetery. He was born in St. Charles, South Dakota on...
Mary "Lorraine" Grant
Oct 14, 2014
Lorraine was born October 22, 1922, in Redfield, SD, to Clarence Leslie and Mary Ellen (Hahn) Mannings. She received her education in the Redfield schools. After graduating from Redfield High School in 1940, she worked as a clerk in the Ben Franklin Store and the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
On October 21, 1945, she and Clarence...
Ray Alton Hunter, Jr.
Oct 9, 2014
Ray Alton Hunter, Jr., 86, Sturgis, died on Thursday, October 9, 2014, at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Ray, a true cowboy, was born in White River, SD, May 9, 1928, to Ray Alton Hunter, Sr., and Willynette (Hollenbeck) Hunter. Ray aspired to be a cowboy from a young age when he watched his dad wrangle buffalo for Custer State...
Lyman Monroe Delameter
Oct 6, 2014
Lyman Monroe Delameter, 94, Temecula, CA, passed away October 6, 2014.
He served in the US Army and US Air Force, rising to the rank of Lt Colonel. He served during WW 2, Korea and Vietnam, and is interred at Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis, SD.
Chester Neven Carlson
Oct 1, 2014
Chester "Sonnie" Neven Carlson, 58, Rapid City, died Wednesday, October 1, 2014, at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Memorial services will be held at 1:00pm on Sunday, October 5, 2014, at the School Auditorium in Osage, WY. Sonnie was born on May 18, 1956, to Duane and Elda (Germundson) Carlson in Browning, MT. He attended school in Upton, WY up...
Violet Adell Schieman
Oct 1, 2014
Violet Adell Schieman was born October 28,1948, to Joseph and Betty (Baker) Berney in Mio, MI. After her father's death Betty moved the family to Marion, OH. By the 10th grade Violet left school and worked for a few years as an Aide before joining the Navy. She was stationed at the Great Lakes training Center working in a...
Erna Magdalena Jarnecke
Oct 1, 2014
Erna was born on August 26, 1921, to Magdalena and Julius Ziebarth in Scranton, ND on the Fischer homestead. She went to Scranton public school and graduated in 1940. In 1944, Erna's high school sweetheart, Lawrence "Larry" Jarnecke, came home on leave from military service and they were married on October 26, 1944. Larry's job as an electrician took...
Margery Anna Ingalls
Sep 28, 2014
Margery Anna Ingalls, 102, Sturgis, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, September 28, 2014, where she longed to be for many years. Margery was a soft spoken, mighty, little lady who was born on March 29, 1912, to Charles and Nona (Carter) Bowlby. She was born in Faith, SD, at her Grandma Bowlby's home, grew up in...
Harry Lewis Hughes
Sep 28, 2014
Harry Lewis Hughes, 89, passed away peacefully at home on September 28th. Harry was born on December 13, 1924, in Houston, Texas, to Ruth (Nettles) and Rex Hughes. He spent most of his childhood in Topeka, Kansas, where he graduated from Topeka High School in 1943. He was a graduate of Kansas University, where he received his Bachelor's and...
Mark David Donaldson
Sep 23, 2014
Mark David Donaldson, 52, of Sturgis, SD died Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Visitation will be held on Friday, September 26th from 5-7pm at Kinkade Funeral Home in Sturgis. Services will be held on Saturday, September 27th at 2pm at Grace Lutheran Church in Sturgis, SD. Mark was born in Brookings, SD on June 24,...
Charlotte M. Keating
Sep 22, 2014
Obituary for Charlotte M. Keating (Hofemann) Of South Dakota formerly of Waltham, went home to be with the Lord, September 22, 2014 at the Rapid City regional Hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota. She was 91.
Born in Lawrence to the late Otto and Mary (Reter) Hofemann, she was a longtime resident of Waltham until moving to...
Donald Henry Gardner
Sep 19, 2014
Donald Henry Gardner, 79, Fairburn, SD, died September 19, 2014, at Hospice House in Rapid City, SD. Donald Henry Gardner was born June 5, 1935, in Sturgis, South Dakota, to Bert and Daisy Gardner. Don lived in Fairburn, South Dakota, which he called home for over 20 years. He was a logger, trader, collector, hunter, fisherman, gardener and a...
Dorothy Elizabeth Busfield
Sep 17, 2014
Dorothy "Dot" Elizabeth Busfield, 91, passed away September 17, 2014, at Clarkson Health Care, a nursing home in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Dot was born January 26, 1923, to Frank and Anne (Harnett) Kimball in Aladdin, Crook Co., Wyoming. In 1941 she was united in marriage to Amos Busfield of Allegan Co., Michigan. They lived in Cheshire...
Daisy Marie Hareter
Sep 16, 2014
Daisy M. Hareter was born in Spearfish, South Dakota on January 6, 1935 to Agnes Muriel and Lee Thomas. She went to Spearfish grade schools and high school. Daisy worked for the Dorsett home in Spearfish for 3 years before injuring her back putting her into retirement on disability. She also worked at the Canyon Café, the Hills Drive...
Greta Kay Nelson
Sep 15, 2014
Greta Giannonatti Nelson, 80, Sturgis, passed away on Monday, September 15, 2014, at Rapid City Hospice of the Hills. Memorial services will be held at 10:00am on Friday, September 19, 2014, at the First United Methodist Church in Sturgis, with Pastor Jenene Earl officiating. Inurnment will follow at Black Hills National Cemetery. Greta was born at Buffalo, SD on...
