Lillie M. Groth
Feb 20, 2009
Lillie M. Groth, 98, Rapid City, died at Theres a Hart, Friday, February 20, 2009. Survivors include a daughter in law, Brenda Dennis, Rapid City and four grandchildren. Visitation will be from 4:30 until 7 PM, Monday, February 23, 2009 at Osheim & Schmidt Funeral Home in Rapid City. Services will be 1:00 PM, Tuesday at the Osheim & Schmidt...
Pearl M Mowry
Feb 18, 2009
Rapid City Pearl Mowry, 98, Rapid City, died at a local nursing home Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Survivors include two sons; John Mowry, Rapid City and Roger Mowry, Scottsdale, AZ, two daughters; JoAnn Sulla, Chicago, Ill and Mary Knapp, Ballantine, MT, five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Visitation will be from 5 pm until 7 pm Sunday at Osheim &...
Othal Floyd Gregson
Feb 16, 2009
Othal F. Gregson, 89, Hill City, died Monday, February 16, 2009 at his home in Hill City. Othal was born August 4, 1919 in Quinn, SD to Frank and Della (Flatt) Gregson. He graduated from Hill City High School in 1937. During high school, Othal played first string basketball with his brother Buford. Othal ranched in the Hill City area...
Milton Flaig
Feb 15, 2009
Milton R. Flaig RAPID CITY -- Milton R. Flaig, fondly called Milty, 81, passed away Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009, at Rapid City Regional Hospital with family by his side. Milty was born June 21, 1927, in Mott, ND to David and Ida (Hirsch) Flaig. He grew up in Isabel. As a teenager he helped with farming outside of Isabel. He...
Donald Stotz
Feb 14, 2009
RAPID CITY--Donald D. Stotz, 67, died at Golden Living Center-Meadowbrook on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009. Survivors include 3 daughters, Marcie, Shelly and Debbie; his mother, Clara Stotz, Hugo, MN; 2 sisters, Marilyn Walker, Hugo and Shirley Wells, St. Paul, MN; a brother, Keith Stotz, Mobridge; 8 grandchildren and many cousins, nephews and nieces. He was preceded in death by his...
Beverly R. Leroy
Feb 11, 2009
Rapid City - Beverly Ruth LeRoy, 82, Rapid City, died Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Beverly was born October 17, 1926, in Milwaukee, WI to Bert and Rose (Smith) Flesch. Survivors include her son; Michael LeRoy, Austin, TX and two daughters; Janine LeRoy and her husband Mike Richardson, Rapid City and Charlene English, Colorado and 5...
Mary E. 'Merch' Rockafellow
Feb 10, 2009
Greeley, Colorado--Mary E. "Merch" Rockafellow, 91, of Greeley, CO, passed away on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at Sterling House. She was born December 4, 1917 in Montrose, SD to Thomas Patrick and Lillian Francis (Zimmerman) McDonnell. She married Marvin "Stonie" Rockafellow on March 28, 1936 in Salem, SD, and he died on January 20, 1999. She was formerly from Rapid...
Erin Ann Myscofski
Feb 10, 2009
Erin Ann Myscofski, 2 month old infant daughter of Andrew M. and Elizabeth ( McDowell) Myscofski, died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. She was born Nov. 29, 2008 in Rapid City. Surviving are her parents, Andrew & Elizabeth Myscofski and a sister, Emily Myscofski, Rapid City; and her grandparents, Richard and Patricia McDowell, Rapid City and...
Leonard R. Willett
Feb 8, 2009
Leonard R. Willett, 86, Hot Springs, formerly of Keystone, died Sunday, February 8, 2009, at the S.D. Veterans Home in Hot Springs. Leonard was born September 28, 1922 in Tulare, S.D. to George and Mary Anna (Spear) Willett. He graduated from Tulare High School in 1940. He married Lavilla Doane February 21, 1943 in Brookings. Leonard joined the U. S....
Doris Mae Dull
Feb 5, 2009
Doris Mae Dull RAPID CITY - Doris Mae Dull, 89, Rapid City, died Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, at Rapid City Regional Hospital after a short period of declining health. Doris was born May 23, 1919, in Columbus, Mont., the daughter of Willard and Edna (Rosean) Holt, and raised on a homestead in the Limestone area near Nye, Mont. She graduated...
Louis Thares
Feb 4, 2009
RAPID CITY--Louis M. Thares, 88, died at Rapid City Regional Hospital on Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Louis was born on October 14, 1920, in Ipswich to Anton and Barbara (Fetti) Thares. He grew up in Mobridge and graduated from Mobridge High School in 1940. He began working for the railroad immediately after high school until enlisting in the Army in...
Suzanne D. Healy
Feb 3, 2009
Suzanne (Ford) Healy, 80 passed away at her home on Tuesday, February 3, 2009. Suzanne was born July 10th, 1928 in Brookings, South Dakota. She was raised in Estelline and Mitchell, South Dakota, and moved with her family to Rapid City in 1941. Her parents, May (Meaghan) Steele and Harry Ford, had four children: Thomas Ford (died in infancy); Mary...
Dorothy Mae Norman
Feb 2, 2009
Dorothy Dode Mae Messerli Norman, 90, Black Hawk, SD, died Monday, February 2, 2009 at a Rapid City nursing home. She was born August 22, 1918 in Mitchell, SD to Fred and Alice (Boyle) Messerli. She lived with her parents in rural Jones County until her family moved to Murdo when she was 12. At Murdo High School she played...
Mike R. Goodrich
Jan 30, 2009
Michael Mike R. Goodrich, 56, Rapid City, after a short but courageous battle with cancer, died Friday, January 30, 2009 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. He was born April 24, 1952 in Medford Oregon. After graduating from Rapid City Central High School in 1971, Mike entered the U. S. Army, serving in Germany. He married Betty Hamm on April 3,...
Dorothy Faye Headley
Jan 27, 2009
Rapid City Dorothy Faye Headley, 73, Rapid City, died Tuesday January 27, 2009, at her home in Rapid City. Dorothy was born March 23, 1935 to Bert and Lydia (Hidenschield) Uthe in Presho, South Dakota. She grew up on a farm with 4 brothers. After high school she attended National School of Business in Rapid City and worked for Anderson...
John Loren Sprague
Jan 22, 2009
RAPID CITYJohn L. Sprague, 39, passed away at Rapid City Regional Hospital on Thursday, January 22, 2009. John was born on February 26, 1969, in San Antonio, TX to James L. and Sharron L. (Clayton) Sprague. He grew up in a Air Force family, attending schools in England, California, Colorado, Stevens High School in Rapid City, and Falcon, CO. He...
Flora "Peggy" Hoffman
Jan 22, 2009
Flora E. Peggy Hoffman, 95, of Rapid City, died Thursday, January 22, 2009 at a local nursing home. Peggy was born November 8, 1913 in Reva, SD to Merve and Mabel (Pew) DeWitt. She grew up in the Reva area, northwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming graduating from Pierre High School. She married Lawrence Hoffman in Mitchell on July 9,...
Lyle Butzke
Jan 22, 2009
RAPID CITY Lyle Harold Butzke, 86, died peacefully in his residence, Thursday Jan. 22. He was born May 21, 1922, in Dallas, SD. He grew up in the small farm community of Dallas. After attending Southern State Normal in Springfield, SD, he taught country school for two years before joining the Marine Corp in 1944. On September 26, 1942, He...
Alma Phillip
Jan 21, 2009
RAPID CITY -- Alma Bernadine Be Phillip, 88, Hermosa, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, at Fountain Springs Nursing Home in Rapid City. Be was born April 12, 1920, to Walter Richard and Gladys Opal (Dye) Colling in Alliance, Neb. She later told stories of her childhood experiences: roller skating up and down the hallways after hours at Central School in...
Arthur Kelly
Jan 20, 2009
Arthur Floyd Kelly, 77, Hill City, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 at his home. Arthur was born Feb. 14, 1931 in Omaha, NE the son of Leonard and Ruth (Stenner) Kelly. He worked for Union Carbide until his retirement in the Houston, TX area. There he was an avid angler in the Gulf waters but decided to move to rural...
