Leander Albert Jassmann passed away at the age of 97 on Oct. 11, 2010 at the Golden Living Center in Pierre. Catherine Charlotte Jassmann, of Rapid City, passed away at the age of 94 on Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, at the Golden Care Living Center on Mountain View Road in Rapid City. In accordance with their wishes, they are being remembered together and buried together. Lee was born Sept. 14, 1913 in Goodrich, N.D., the fourth of nine children of Emil and Emma Jassmann. When Leander was six years old, his family moved to Delmont, and later to Mitchell. Leander attended school in Delmont and later in Tripp. In 1933, Lee?s family moved to Pierre, where he worked as a mechanic for his father who owned Jassmann & Sons (the Hudson dealership). As a young man, Leander also broke horses for his older brother Don and boxed with many other young men, including his older brother Art. Leander enlisted in the U.S. Army, and spent time at Fort Brady in Sault Saint Marie, Mich., where he qualified as an Aviation Cadet and was later transferred to England, where he was part of the unit charged with protecting General Eisenhower. After the war, Leander found a job as a painter in Pierre. Catherine (Kate) C. Mulcahey was born May 4, 1913, near Midland, one of the older siblings in the family of seven children of Steve and Helen Mulcahey. Catherine attended school in Midland, where she graduated high school in 1931. Kate was able to find jobs taking care of both children and households for other families. In 1938, she married John Gates and helped raise his two children. After his death from cancer six years later, Kate moved to Pierre. Leander and Catherine met in the late 1940s while they were both working in Pierre and became united as one in October of 1950. In 1956, they moved to Rapid City, where Leander quickly secured a job painting, and shortly thereafter discovered a demand as a paperhanger. Soon after water from the 1972 flood in Rapid City muddied their basement they bought their dream home (that Kate had designed herself) in the foothills south of Rapid City. Lee and Kate loved the outdoors and worked together on their mountain home. Kate was an excellent cook and enjoyed gardening while Lee maintained the house and property and attended welding classes to repair equipment. Leander was very busy with his painting and paperhanging business until he retired in 2002. Leander occasionally mentioned that, he had to quit working when he was 89. In his retirement, Leander enjoyed hunting, fishing, working around the house, and spending time with family and friends. Lee and Kate had a gentle temperament and fun-loving nature. They were beloved of their family and favorites with their nieces and nephews. Lee and Kate were always appreciative of good jokes and enjoyed visiting the Sturgis bike rally almost every year. Lee and Kate are survived by their stepdaughter, Frances Tennyson and her children, Marilyn Stor, of Denver, Colo., and Debbie Johnson of Omaha, Neb.; a sister to Lee, Viola Strutz of Pierre; a brother to Lee, Calvin Jassmann of Boulder, Colo.; a sister to Kate, Margaret Moore of Rapid City; as well as many nieces and nephews. They are preceded by Kate's first husband, John Gates, and stepson, Johnny; by Gale Tennyson, the husband of their stepdaughter, and by their grandson Mike Tennyson. They are also predeceased by Kate's parents Steve and Helen Mulcahey; by Lee's parents, Emil and Emma Jassmann; by five of Kate's siblings, Fritz, Dan, Jim, Mary, and Dorothy; and by six of Lee's siblings, Don, Lorena, Art, Esther, Harry, and Frank. A memorial service is planned for 9 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, at the First United Methodist Church at 117 N. Central in Pierre. Interment will be held that afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at the Black Hills National Cemetery in Sturgis. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made in memory of Leander and Catherine Jassmann to: The Sierra Club Foundation at www.sierraclub.org/foundation.