Harold Gallagher
Jan 24, 2015
Harold David Gallagher, 82, Lieutenant Colonel, USA, Retired, passed away on January 24, 2015, at Spearfish Regional Hospital. Harold was born November 6, 1932, to David and Lillie (Johnson) Gallagher in Ardmore, SD. He was the youngest of five children. He was raised in Hot Springs, graduating from Hot Springs High School in 1950. He attended the University of Nebraska...
Dean Aschenbrenner
Jan 24, 2015
Dean F. Aschenbrenner, 67 of Denver, CO passed away on Saturday, January 24, 2015 at his home after a lengthy battle with respiratory problems following throat cancer. Dean was born in Rapid City, SD on June 20, 1947 to Carl and Evelyn (Wilson) Aschenbrenner. He was raised in Lead where he attended school and graduated from Lead High School in...
Jean Ann Johnson
Jan 22, 2015
Jean Ann Johnson was born in Spokane, Washington on February 4, 1939. She and her family moved to Tacoma, Washington, where she graduated from high school. Shortly after graduating she moved to Deadwood. In 1969 she married Everet Johnson and became a mother to three beautiful and loving children; Cindy, Adriane and Michael. While in the Deadwood, Jean worked for...
Donald D. Sackett
Jan 22, 2015
Donald Dale Sackett of Alcova, WY 74, passed away of natural causes on Thursday, January 22, 2015. He passed peacefully at his home. Mr. Sackett was born to Claude Morris Sackett and Edith Elizabeth (Toth) Sackett on December 23, 1940 in Sundance, Wyoming. He married Meredith Kay Coleman on March 19, 1961 in Guernsey, Wyoming. He is preceded in death...
Jane Nelson
Jan 22, 2015
Jane Nelson, 83 of Spearfish died Thursday, January 22, 2015 at Spearfish Regional Hospital. Services will be held at a later date. Survivors include her husband, William Nelson of Spearfish, son, Tom Nelson of Spearfish, daughter, Nancy Portz of Pasadena of MD, six grandchildren, five grandchildren, two sisters, Doris Moye of AZ and Dorothy Jarka of IL and one brother,...
Kenneth R. Bartels
Jan 20, 2015
Kenneth R. Bartels, 59, Spearfish died January 20, 2015. Memorial services will be held at 1:30pm Saturday, February 7, 2015 at the United Church of Christ in Spearfish. Kenneth was born August 23, 1955 in Pierre, SD to James and Doris (Speer) Bartels. He was raised on his family's ranch near Ft. Pierre. Kenneth always had a love for animals,...
Wini Geis
Jan 19, 2015
Wini S. Geis, 86, Belle Fourche, SD passed away on January 19, 2015 at Rapid City Regional Hospice House. She was born on March 5, 1928 in Osaka Japan. She married Sherry Geis and lived in various states while he was in the military, they later divorced. Wini and her son Robert returned to Belle Fourche and lived with Clarence...
Meryle Zubrod
Jan 16, 2015
Meryle Zubrod, 79, of Spearfish, passed away peacefully on January 16, 2015 at Rapid City Regional Hospital with his family by his side. Meryle began his life on June 22, 1935 in Watauga, SD with parents, Jerome and Ann (Bleth) Zubrod. On September 11, 1954 Meryle married the love of his life Yvonne in Watauga, SD. In 1956, he was...
Charlotte Schuttler
Jan 14, 2015
Charlotte M Schuttler, 85, of Spearfish passed away on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at Spearfish Regional Hospital. Charlotte was born on June 22, 1929 in Lead, SD to Robert M and Marian (Moses) Bryant of Central City. Charlotte's mother passed away in Central City in 1934 and at that time her Aunt Mary Bryant Walton, who was her father's older...
Margaret Peterson
Jan 12, 2015
Margaret K. Peterson, 103, died Monday, January 12, 2015 at her daughter's home in Spearfish, SD. Emma Margaret Kittelson was born to Charles J. and Clara J. (Berg) Kittelson December 31, 1911 at home in Lake Park, MN, the third of ten children. She moved with her family to Ballantine, MT in 1916. She graduated from Huntley High School in...
Marc Haynes
Jan 12, 2015
Marc Allen Haynes, 69 of Upton, WY passed away Monday, January 12, 2015 at 1:05am at his home. Marc was born on October 4th 1945 in Chamberlain, SD to Marjorie Beach and Henry Allen Haynes. He moved to Knoxville, TN upon his father's return, from his wartime duty station in Guam during WWII. At the age of ten, Marc returned...
Elissa R. Willuweit
Jan 11, 2015
Elissa Renee Willuweit 35, Spearfish, passed away on January 11, 2015 at her home. Elissa was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 1979. From the minute she was born her smile made everyone love her. As she grew her sense of humor and dry wit endeared her to all. From the time she started school she started taking care of...
Evan Maddison
Jan 10, 2015
Evan Maddison, 73, Beulah, WY died Saturday, January 10, 2015 at Spearfish Regional Hospital. Evan was born in Belle Fourche, SD to Milton and Helen (Dillavou) Maddison on January 3, 1942. He grew up in Aladdin, WY near Cook Lake on the family homestead. He started working in the logging industry at the age of 18, where he fell in...
Lois Fitzgerald-Doran
Jan 10, 2015
Lois Fitzgerald-Doran, 87, of Spearfish, passed away Saturday, January 10, 2015 surrounded by family, love and prayers near and far. Lois was born to the late Russell and Rose Smith January 7, 1928 at Mitchell, South Dakota. Russell later moved his family to Spearfish, SD where Lois attended and graduated from high school in 1946. She married the late Maurice...
Velda L. Danko
Jan 10, 2015
Velda L. Danko, 92 of Spearfish died Saturday, January 10, 2015 at the David M. Dorsett Healthcare Facility in Spearfish. Graveside memorial services will be held at 1:00pm, Friday, January 16, 2015 at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis. In lieu of flowers a memorial has been established to benefit the Spearfish Volunteer Fire Department. Survivors include her son, John...
Diana Engelhaupt
Jan 10, 2015
Diana J. Engelhaupt, 51 of Warsaw, Indiana passed away at 5:05 am Saturday, January 10, 2015 in her residence. On January 22, 1963, she was born in Deadwood, South Dakota to Joseph A. and Virginia (Hindman) Engelhaupt. Diana graduated from Sundance High School in 1981 and then attended Sheridan Junior College, Sheridan, Wyoming, earning her Associate's Degree in Science. She...
Lorraine Gaye Hambek
Jan 9, 2015
Gaye was born on July 18, 1941 south of Colome, SD in her grandparent's home. She was born the oldest of three girls to Carl and Rita (Amick) Stroschine. She attended Kansas Flats country grade school and graduated from Colome High School in 1959. Her dad was a ranch hand and worked on various ranches in the sand hills of...
Gregory Wood
Jan 8, 2015
Gregory "Greg" Dale Wood, 45 of Devil's Tower, WY died Thursday, January 8, 2015 at his home. Funeral service will be at 10:00am, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at the Hulett Civic Center in Hulett, WY. Burial will follow at Tower Divide Cemetery, near Devil's Tower. A memorial has been established to benefit the Hulett Civic Center. Greg was born November...
Estelene Dowdy
Jan 7, 2015
Estelene Dowdy, 82 of Spearfish passed away on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at Spearfish Regional Hospital. Estelene was born on February 3, 1932 to James and Louva (Ruby) Campbell in Bennett, CO. She married Patrick Dowdy on September 22, 1950 at Brighton, CO. Estelene is survived by her husband of 65 years, Patrick of Spearfish; sons, Rick (Carolyn) Dowdy of...
Jerold D. Russell
Jan 6, 2015
Jerold Dean Russell, 79, passed away on January 6, 2015 at his daughter's home in Newcastle, Wyoming. After a brief illness, he died peacefully with family at his bedside. Jerry was born September 7, 1935 in Aberdeen, SD. He was the second of four children born to Harold and Wilma (Byrd) Russell. Growing up he attended schools in South Dakota...
