RAPID CITY - Sherwood L. "Woody" Corner, 86, died Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at the Rapid City Regional Auxillary Hospice House. Woody was born in 1922 at Sioux City, Iowa to Marion and Paul Corner. The family moved to Sioux Falls where Woody graduated from high school. Woody graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology with a degree in Civil Engineering, enlisted in the Navy for two years and returned to Rapid City to work for Hackett Construction Company. There he met Ep Howe and they started their own company, Corner and Howe Construction Company. They soon realized after building one house, they only wanted to build commercial buildings. They took on a new partner in 1953, Chris Lee, and became Corner, Howe and Lee Construction Company. In 1954 he met Lila Harms and they were married in 1955. They had three children: Mark, Brian and Lisa. In 1972, when the children were ages 1, 3 and 10, the flood occurred. Woody's brother, Robert, had died five years previous and his wife, Mary, was killed in the flood. Their children, Candace, 16 and Rob, 18 were taken in by Woody and Lila. Woody loved hunting, boating, fishing, golf and tennis. He was on the board of the National Bank, what is now the U. S. Bank, for 25 years. He was also very active in the Rapid City Jaycees, the Rapid City Rotary Club and served on a hospital board. In 1978, he and Lila bought their first place in Naples, FL. They would go down three times a year until 1989, then started living there seven months out of the year. Woody loved his life in Naples, but he always enjoyed coming home to Rapid City in the summer. He built and owned four Howard Johnson Motels. He and Gil Moyle started KEVN-TV, owning that for 10 years. Woody also built and owned Mr. Party Liquors. He loved the challenge of learning a new business and making a success of it while still in the construction business. He will always be remembered as a hard working, honest businessman. He was preceded in death by his father; mother; brother; sister-in-law, Mary; and sister-in-law, Marilyn Simpson. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Lila; two sons, Mark Corner, Bozeman, MT and Brian Corner and his wife, Carrie, Tea; his daughter, Lisa and her husband, Rick and their two children, Blake and Aleyna, Laramie, WY; his nephew, Rob Corner, Rapid City; his niece, Candace Shaeffer, Laramie; brother-in-law, Robert Harms and his wife, Donna, Sun Lake, AZ; a nephew, Steve Simpson, Buffalo Gap; and a niece, Nancy Rae, Goodyear, AZ. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Osheim & Schmidt Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, June 5, at Calvary Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Dwight Stensgaard officiating. Interment will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. A memorial has been established to the Rapid City Regional Auxiliary Hospice House.