Dixie Toscana
Dec 9, 2013
RAPID CITY- Dixie Toscana, 77, died Monday, December 9, 2013 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Dixie was born on June 11, 1936 to Walter and Hazel (Fuhrmann) Grapp in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She moved to Rapid City at an early age and attended Rapid City High School. Dixie married Richard L. Stalcup on March 28, 1953 and to this union...
Leona A. Nolan
Dec 8, 2013
RAPID CITY- Leona A. Nolan, 99, died Sunday, December 8, 2013 at Golden Living Center- Prairie Hills. Survivors include her nephew, Francis Wilson, Rapid City and niece, Mary Wilson, New Underwood. Christian Funeral Mass will be offered at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at the Our Lady Chapel at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help with...
Marian Corlee Mills
Dec 7, 2013
River Oaks, Texas - Marian Corlee Mills, 100, formerly of Rapid City, died Saturday, December 7, 2013 at the River Oaks Health and Rehab Center at River Oaks, TX. Marian Corlee Guess was born December 23, 1912 in Rogers, Texas. She was the oldest child of Jessie Catherine [Warner] and Benjamin Reynolds Guess. Her early childhood was spent in several...
Antonia B. 'Toni' Kopp
Dec 5, 2013
Antonia "Toni" Bernadine Kopp, 98, of rural Box Elder, died Thursday, December 5, 2013 at the Golden Living Center-Bella Vista, Rapid City. Toni was born January 15, 1915 at Voerde, Westfalia, Germany to Bernard and Antonia (Lutum) Leusing. Bernard was a casualty of WWI that same year. In 1924 the family immigrated to the United States where her mother married...
Eric Howard Spell
Dec 4, 2013
Rapid City - Eric H. Spell, 44, Rapid City, died Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at the Rapid City Regional Hospice Auxiliary House Eric H. Spell died peacefully and honorably surrounded by his wife, children, parents and his friends on December 4, 2013 at the Hospice house. He was 44. Eric was born on December 20, 1968 in Cheyenne WY, but...
Phyllis Elizabeth Schneider
Dec 3, 2013
Phyllis Schneider memorial obituary with photo Rapid City - Phyllis Schneider, 82, died Tuesday, December 3, 2013, at Rapid City Regional Hospital. She was born in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, the daughter of Theresia and Anton Neigel. She graduated from National College of Business. Phyllis married Herman Schneider on June 20, 1953 in Rapid City, South Dakota. Phyllis enjoyed her...
Mary Maks
Dec 3, 2013
Mary R. Maks, 82, of Grand Island, Nebraska, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, at St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island. Services were at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at St. Leo's Catholic Church in Grand Island. The Rev. Charles Torpey officiated. Burial will be alongside her beloved husband, Stephen, in the Black Hills National Cemetery outside of Rapid City...
Dwayne Snipes
Nov 26, 2013
RAPID CITYDwayne A. Snipes, 43, of Rapid City, died at Rapid City Regional Hospital on Tuesday, November 26, 2013. He was born on June 9, 1970, in Flushing, NY, to James Irving Snipes,IV and Linda (Smith) Snipes. He grew up in Rapid City and graduated from Central High School. He was employed at Red River Sanitation, Kieffer Sanitation, Terry's Auto...
Lester E. "Sonny" Doran
Nov 26, 2013
RAPID CITY- Lester (Sonny) Doran left this earth on November 26, 2013, a life traced in the palm of his hand. From the tiny one that unfurled ninety years ago on a farm in Plankinton, SD, Sept. 5, 1923, to one that joined another's, his wife's, and held it through 70 years of wedded bliss. Hands that met WWII in...
Kermit C. Torve
Nov 25, 2013
RAPID CITY- Kermit Curtis Torve, 88, passed away on Tuesday, November 25, 2013 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Kermit was born on a farm near Irene, SD, on October 12, 1925, to Oliver and Maggie Torve. He graduated from Viborg High School and was inducted into the U.S. Army at Ft. Snelling on March 29, 1945. Kermit graduated from South...
Sharon 'Sherry' Massa
Nov 21, 2013
RAPID CITY- Sherry Massa, 71, of Rapid City, SD died Thursday November 21, 2013. She fought a brave battle against pancreatic cancer over the past year. She died peacefully with her family at her side from complications related to this disease. She was born December 3, 1941, in Manchester, SD, to Floyd and Olive Moore. She attended high school in...
Karen Hegre
Nov 21, 2013
RAPID CITY - Karen L. Hegre, 68, of Rapid City, died in Yankton on Thursday, November 21, 2013. Karen Lee Reed was born May 31, 1945 in Mitchell, SD to Del and Alice [Woodward] Reed. She grew to adulthood in the Woonsocket, SD area and later moved to Pierre, SD and attended school. She then went into Radio and attended...
Mary "Barbara" B. Smith
Nov 20, 2013
GERMANTOWN, WIS: Mary B. (Barbara) Smith was born in Mt. Holly, New Jersey on March 15, 1928 to Mr. Stanley E. and Mrs. Mary (Wisham) Borden. Mary passed away on November 20, 2013 at Ellen's Home South Assisted Living in Germantown WI. She graduated with a degree from the University of Connecticut in 1949 as Registered Nurse. She spent the...
Herbert "Herb" Kunce
Nov 19, 2013
RAPID CITY- Herbert E. "Herb" Kunce, 63, died Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. He served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam. Survivors include his wife, Sheri Kunce, Rapid City; and brother, Donald Kunce, Hot Springs. Services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at Osheim & Schmidt Funeral Home with Rev. Herb B....
Allan L Bradley
Nov 14, 2013
Hill City - Allan Lee Bradley, 80, Hill City, died Thursday, November 14, 2013 at the Rapid City Regional Hospice Auxiliary House. Survivors include his wife: Celia M. Bradley of Hill City; three children: David [Mary Ryan] Bradley of Walnut Creek, CA, Peggy Arrington of Rogers, MN, and Charles [Tina] Bradley of Rapid City; four grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; six great-step-grandchildren;...
Mabel Fajardo
Nov 12, 2013
Mabel Z. Fajardo, 85, of Rapid City, died at Golden Living Center-Black Hills, on Tuesday, November 12, 2013. Mabel was born on January 7, 1928, in Johnstown, Colorado, the youngest of 7 children. She married Pat Fajardo on April 19, 1945 in Milliken, Colorado. They had 68 years of marriage before her passing. They had 4 children. Mabel was very...
Michael James Volk
Nov 11, 2013
Mike Volk, 75, died November 11th 2013, in Phoenix, AZ. He was born July 20, 1938, in Strasburg, ND, to August and Elizabeth (Schwahn) Volk. At the age of 3, his family moved to Dupree, SD where they lived until 1947 when they moved to Hardin, MT. Mike attended St. Xavier Mission School in St. Xavier, MT. In 1955 he...
Laverne A. 'Vern' Faust
Nov 6, 2013
RAPID CITY--LaVerne (Vern) Anton Faust died Nov. 6, 2013 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Vern was born May 24, 1925 in Elgin, Neb., to Joseph and Catherine (Selting) Faust. His family moved to South Dakota in 1933. Vern attended St. Liborius Parochial School in Polo. When his mother became seriously ill, he left school to help on the family farm....
Earl R. Palmer
Nov 3, 2013
NEMO-Earl R. Palmer, 87, of Nemo, SD, died Sunday, November 3, 2013 at Rapid City Regional Hospital Auxiliary Hospice House. Prior to his retirement, he had been an instructor of building trades and maintenance at Boxelder Job Corps. Earlier, he ran the union carpenter apprenticeship program for South Dakota and was a building supervisor for a variety of construction projects,...
Karen La Framboise Olsen
Nov 3, 2013
Karen June Olsen passed away at the young age of 70 in Orem, Utah. She was born on November 28, 1942 in Pocatello, Idaho to June Jensen and Thomas Burke, the younger twin to her brother, Karl. She was adopted by Harold Davis, June's second husband, shortly before the small family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. There, Karen grew...
