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Eileen Ruby Jane Howe
Aug 30, 2017
Eileen Ruby Jane Howe, 92, formerly of Rapid City, died Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at the Fidalgo Rehab Center at Anacortes, Washington. Memorial Graveside Services will be 11 am Thursday, September 21, 2017 at Mt. View Cemetery at Rapid City, SD
Alice "Pat" Tomovick
Aug 26, 2017
Alice Patricia "Pat" Tomovick Surrounded by family and friends, our beloved mother passed away on August 26th at the Dorsett Healthcare Center in Spearfish. She will be missed. Pat was born to Lawrence and Elizabeth Jacobson in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 17th, 1924. At ten years of age, her family moved to Evanston, Illinois where her father worked as a...
Michael T. Paananen
Aug 26, 2017
Michael T. "Todd" Paananen, 54, of Rapid City, died Saturday, August 26, 2017 at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
He was born on May 15, 2017 in Rapid City to Wayne and El Marie (Opitz) Paananen. He grew up in Rapid City and Becker, MN, attending his last two years...
John Alfsen
Aug 25, 2017
RAPID CITY- John Alfsen, 82, died Friday, August 25, 2017 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Darlene Glenn, Rapid City; two daughters, Karla Gilley, Anchorage, Alaksa; and Laurie Alfsen, Palmer, Alaska; and one granddaughter. Services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, September 15, 2017 at Blessed Sacrament Church with Rev. Brian Lane presiding. Interment will...
Edward "Ed" Mcgaa
Aug 25, 2017
HILL CITY- Melvin Edward "Ed" McGaa, 81, died Friday, August 25, 2017 at his home. Ed served in the US Marine Corps as a Captain and flew 110 missions in the F-4 Phantom as a driver in Vietnam. A Memorial Honoring Ceremony will take place at Crazy Horse Memorial on Monday, Sept. 11 at 6:00 pm. Inurnment will take place...
Hazel Anderson
Aug 21, 2017
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother Hazel B. Wasserburger (Rongved) Anderson passed away August 21, 2017 at Regional Hospital, Rapid City, SD.
Hazel was born June 21, 1928 in Montrose, NE to Herbert and Gertrude Wasserburger. She grew up in the Montrose and Ardmore, SD area. Hazel was...
Leone "Hokie" Anderson
Aug 21, 2017
RAPID CITY | Leone 'Hokie' Anderson passed away at his home on August 21 2017.
Hokie was born July 16, 1924, in Big Bend, SD, to Ellert and Matilda Anderson. He married the love of his life, Irene Harvey on Nov....
Lorraine Francis Ormesher
Aug 20, 2017
Rapid City – Lorraine F. Ormesher, 93, died Sunday, August 20, 2017 at the Victorian Assisted Living.
Visitation will be from 9:00 am to 10:00 at Blessed Sacrament Church with Mass beginning at 10:00 am. Burial will be at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Rapid City.
Funeral arrangements under the direction of Osheim & Schmidt Funeral...
Mardelle Arlene Clarke
Aug 18, 2017
Rapid City – Mardelle Arlene Clarke (Lind), 86, died Friday, August 18, 2017, at her home in Rapid City, South Dakota. She was born April 30, 1931 in Crosby-Ironton, MN to Hazel A. and Clifford W. Lind. She grew up at the family's home on Serpent Lake, played saxophone in the C-I High School band, and graduated nursing school at...
Gloria Jeanne Hardin
Aug 18, 2017
Gloria Jeanne Hardin, 70, died Friday, August 18, 2017 at the Rapid City Regional Hospice Auxiliary House.
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Gloria Jeanne Hardin, 70, of Rapid City, died Friday, August 18, 2017 at the Rapid City Regional Hospice House. She had battled esophageal cancer since February 2017.
Donald J. Fousek
Aug 16, 2017
Donald J Fousek, 61, of Rapid City, died Wednesday, August 16, 2017.
Donald James Fousek was born in Parkston, SD, on November 19, 1955, when Mom went into labor while driving to Mitchell from Tyndall, SD. Donald was number 8 in a family of 12 kids. Donald...
Richard 'Brennan' Cox
Aug 16, 2017
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Spc. Richard "Brennan" Berdell Cox, 22, died Wednesday, August 16, 2017.
Brennan was born on April 19, 1995 to Richard and Stephanie (Barbour) Cox in Hot Springs, SD.
He attended school in Hot Springs...
Deanna Kirwan
Aug 13, 2017
Deanna Lannette (Crawford) Kirwan , 62 of Sioux City Iowa passed away on Sunday August 13, 2017 in Irene SD after a courageous battle with cancer. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday November 3, 2017 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Sioux City Iowa with the Rev. Daniel Rupp officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Sioux City...
Donald R. Smith
Aug 13, 2017
Donald R. Smith, Retired Lt. Col. USAF of Westfield, WI: age 95 died at Divine Savior Hospital in Portage, WI following a car accident on Aug. 13, 2017.
Donald was born on Jan. 20, 1922 to Robert and Lydia Smith. He grew up on a farm in rural Oxford, WI and learned the value of hard work....
P. Yvonne Kuehn
Aug 12, 2017
On August 12, 2017, Yvonne Kuehn went to join the angels and loved ones who have already travelled that journey, and to find the place Jesus readied for her.
Phyllis Yvonne Larson was born August 9, 1928, in her grandparents' home in Crosby, ND. She was born to parents...
Nancy Ann Van Ee
Aug 11, 2017
RAPID CITY, SD – NANCY ANN VAN EE, 75, died Friday, August  11, 2017 at the Rapid City Regional Auxiliary Hospice House.
She was born September 29, 1941 at Waterloo, Iowa to William and Betty [Trebon] Townsend. Growing to adulthood in Waterloo, she attended school at St Marys , St. Edwards and graduated from Waterloo West High...
Brian Charles Engle
Aug 9, 2017
Brian Charles Engle, 57, of Rapid City, passed away at his home on Wednesday, August 9, 2017. He was born on November 6, 1959, in Rapid City to Paul and Bertha (Freidel) Engle. Brian grew up in Rapid City and graduated from Rapid City Central High School in 1978. He then attended and graduated from SDSU in Brookings with a...
Irene Maurer Belzer
Aug 7, 2017
Irene Maurer Belzer, 103, died Monday, August 7, 2017 at Westhills Village Health Care Center. Her Memorial Service will be 10:00 am Friday, August 11 at Osheim & Schmidt Funeral Home. Inurnment will be 12 pm noon at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis.
Robert G. Sundall
Aug 6, 2017
Robert Glenn (Bob) Sundall, 92, of Rapid City passed away on Sunday, August 6, 2017. Grave side services will be held at 11:00 am at the Kennebec Cemetery in Kennebec, SD on Saturday, August 26, 2017 with Pastor Travis Krogman officiating.
Bob was born on December 2, 1924 and...
Joanne Lucille Shorb
Aug 6, 2017
RAPID CITY | Joanne L. Shorb, 82, Rapid City and longtime Hermosa area resident, died Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, at her Rapid City residence.
She was born March 22, 1935, in Rapid City to W. T. "Shorty" and Sylvia (Bertelson) Smith....
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