Lottie Anna Kelley
Jan 24, 2019
Lottie Anna Chamberlain was born February 7, 1922, to Edward and Daisy Chamberlain. Lottie had four older sisters: Evelyn, Vivian, Lola, and Josephine. After marrying Arthur Ray Morgan in Vermillion, SD, they settled in Sturgis, SD, around 1951. Lottie had many careers throughout her life. She worked at Spic and Span Cleaners, was a telephone operator, clerked at the...
Marjorie Mildred Kenefick
Jan 23, 2019
Marjorie was born to the late Roy and Cynthia MacDuffee, December 19, 1938, in Johnsburg, NY. Marjie graduated from Rapid City High School in 1955. She married Paul Kenefick in the same year of her graduation. Marjorie had many passions including debating politics, animals, and most of all, the love of her family. She was known for laughing often,...
Shaine Coty Boeckmann
Jan 23, 2019
Shaine Coty Boeckmann was born January 26, 1987, in Tucson, AZ, to Joel and Diana (Merrick) Boeckmann. He was a gifted artist, drawing and painting. He was a talented wood-worker, making many beautiful pieces of furniture for his friends and family. Shaine worked in construction as a sub-contractor. Shaine, 31, Sturgis, SD, died Wednesday, January 23, 2019, at his...
Deckey Lee Moate
Jan 21, 2019
Born in Coquille, OR, Dekki Moate was the eldest daughter of Audrey Alta and George David Moate. She was loved by both parents, though they separated early in her life. At nine, when Audrey tragically disappeared, she and her younger brother, George, went to live with their father. This loss marked Dekki, leading her on a path of service...
Evelyn Burroughs Willett
Jan 14, 2019
Evelyn was born May 20, 1916, to Hulda (Zimbleman) and George Salmen on a farm near Fullerton, ND. She attended the Fullerton Consolidated School through her junior year and then attended Oakes High School, graduating in 1934. She graduated from the Normal Industrial College in Ellendale, ND. She taught eight years in rural one-room schools in North & South...
Gregory Alan Pauley
Jan 14, 2019
Greg was born to Ezra and Betty (Seitz) Pauley on May 11, 1952, at St. John's Hospital in Rapid City. His childhood was spent outside Vale, on the farm homesteaded by his grandfather, George Seitz. During those years Greg learned about lambing ewes, raising crops, and maintaining a strong work ethic. Greg attended elementary school in Vale, but his...
Virgil Milhous Huber
Jan 13, 2019
Virgil was born March 3, 1934, in Murdo, SD, the fourth of five children, to Otto and Helena (Schmidt) Huber. He grew up on his parent's farm, along with his three brothers and a sister, in western Mellette County. Virgil attended elementary school at Prairie View School through the eighth grade. When his two older brothers, Donald and Herbert,...
Cinda Lou Landreth
Jan 12, 2019
Cindy L. (Ward) Landreth, 66, passed away Saturday, January 12, 2019, at Sturgis Regional Senior Care with family by her side. Cindy was born September 29, 1952, in Rapid City, SD, to Price and Juanita (Hassan) Ward. She attended school in Rapid City, including Rapid City Central High School. Cindy was talented in art and music and developed these...
Etta Mae Bateman
Jan 11, 2019
Etta Mae Bateman, 88, Rapid City, passed away peacefully on January 11, 2019. Etta Mae was born January 28, 1930, in Sturgis to John and Virginia (Conlon) Szymanski. She was married to Maynard Louis Backens from November 6, 1949, until his death on May 11, 1968; they had two daughters, Lorna and Charmaine. Etta Mae married Charles Clinton Bateman...
Ronald Dean Perschbacher
Jan 9, 2019
Ronald Dean Perschbacher was born August 1, 1959, in Iowa City, IA. He was the first born of three boys and attended school in Albert Lee, MN, until 1977. Hen then enlisted in the U.S. Army as an Infantryman, continued his education, and received his G.E.D. Ron was stationed at Ft. Riley, KS. He received survival training in Alaska,...
Dorothy Anne Peterson
Jan 7, 2019
Dorothy was born in Newell, SD, on June 5, 1926, to George C. and Hazel (Gadsden) Arpan. In her youth, she lived at Hoover, SD, where she got to spend a great deal of time with her favorite aunt, Alice Hoover, and cousin, Don Hoover, riding horses, hiking the prairies, and loving animals. She moved into Newell where she...
Daisy Florence Plumb
Jan 6, 2019
Daisy Merrill was born July 12, 1919, in rural Sully County. She left this world in the early hours of January 6, 2019. Being in the middle of nine siblings, she was raised on the family farm bordering the Sully-Potter County line. After high school, she moved to the "big town" of Huron to pursue a job. She lived...
Marian Kathleen Eatherton
Jan 6, 2019
Marian Eatherton described herself as "a woman who wears many hats." And so she was. Wife of 68 years to James A. Eatherton, mother of three daughters (Laurie, Debra, and Gwen), grandmother (David, Andy, and Jane), church organist, substitute teacher, piano teacher, Whitewood Elementary School music teacher, and feature writer for the Meade County Times-Tribune. Marian passed away Sunday,...
Anthony Gene Johnson
Jan 3, 2019
Tony was born with drum sticks in hand April 23, 1956, to Christopher Johnson, Jr., and Louella Highley in Salt Lick, KY. He was the baby of the family with 3 siblings: Barb, Ricky, and Sue. At age nine, his father bought him his first drum set and he has been a Rockstar ever since. Playing across the country...
Margaret Helen Harmon
Jan 3, 2019
Margaret Helen Harmon was born August 17, 1957, in Delta, CO, to John "Jack" and Ozella (Allmon) Shea and passed away on January 3, 2019, in Whitewood, SD, quietly in her home from cancer complications, at the age of 61. Margaret graduated from Delta High School in 1975. On August 8, 1981, she was married to Mitchell Harmon in...
Dennis Keith Rottenbucher
Jan 2, 2019
Dennis was born to Joseph and Cora (Wilcox) Rottenbucher on October 17, 1959, at Sturgis, SD. He was raised in Sturgis and graduated from Sturgis Brown High School. He loved the outdoors and going for walks. His greatest love was his motorcycles and going riding when he got a chance. He loved the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and all the...
Myrna E. Farrar
Jan 1, 2019
Myrna Welsh/Farrar, 93, danced into Heaven on January 1, 2019, peacefully in her sleep at home in Sturgis, SD, surrounded by her daughter and friends. Myrna was born November 2, 1925, in Gordon, NE, to John and Gladys (Cobler) Pouge. She is preceded in death by her parents; brothers and sisters; and daughter, Debra Dansby. Survivors include her children,...
Huston Donald Howard
Dec 31, 2018
Huston Donald "Red" Howard was born January 8, 1929, in Greenwood, KY, to Huston Daniel and Lora (Mills) Howard. He was the youngest of eight children: Oval, Felix "Pete," Wade, Bessie, Steve, Jane "Rusty," and Ruby. He was raised in a rural area of Kentucky called Blue John where he completed the 8th grade (later acquiring his G.E.D certificate)...
Marlene Joann Daane
Dec 31, 2018
Marlene JoAnn Daane, 84, Sturgis, died Monday, December 31, 2018, at Sturgis Regional Senior Care. Marlene was born February 16, 1934, in Dell Rapids, SD, to Dr. M. Chandon and Alida J. (Anderson) Dietrich. During Marlene's childhood, the family moved to Sioux Falls, where she later graduated from Washington High School. The young Marlene Dietrich's early childhood was dominated...
Morris Ivan Johnson
Dec 28, 2018
Morris Ivan Johnson, 86, Deadwood, died Friday, December 28, 2018 at the VA Black Hills Health Care Center at Fort Meade, SD. Born the youngest of five in Rapid City he truly loved the Black Hills, and lived in this area most of his life. He always said, "I was born here and I will die here." He was...
