Mildred "Tillie" Gilbert
Apr 21, 2013
Mildred "Tillie" L. Gilbert, 80, Rapid City, SD died Sunday, April 21, 2013 at David M. Dorsett Health Care Center in Spearfish. Survivors include her children; Ila Mae Conners, Allan Gilbert and Kerry Gilbert all of Rapid City and Dennis Gilbert of Grand Island, NE. Memorial Services for "Tillie" will be at 10:30AM, Thursday, April 25, 2013 at St. Matthews...
Gerald "Jerry" Douglas
Apr 20, 2013
Gerald L. Douglas, 63 passed away on Saturday, April 20, 2013, at his home in Lead, due to a serious fall. Jerry was born April 4, 1950 to John & Vera Douglas in Herculaneum, Missouri where he spent his youth. He went into the Army in 1969 and was stationed in Vietnam in 1970 -71. On returning to the states...
Ella Hart
Apr 20, 2013
Ella (Heinrich) Hart, a longtime resident of Lead, SD, passed away April 20, 2013. A celebration of her life services will be at 10:00 AM, Saturday, June 8, 2013 at the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in Lead, SD, with Reverend Tom Stenzel officiating. Inurnment will be at Mountain Lawn Cemetery, Lead. Ella was born September 27, 1926 in...
Neil Thompson
Apr 18, 2013
Neil C. Thompson, 84, of Upton, WY, died Wednesday, April 18, 2013 at Wyoming Medical Center, Casper, Wyoming after a long, well-lived life. Neil was born January 24, 1929, at the family ranch south of Upton to Clarence and Bernice (Sheldon) Thompson. He was the fourth child of seven children. He was educated at the Douglas-Fulton School, which was moved...
Gladys Smith
Apr 18, 2013
Gladys Bunch Smith, 92, longtime Lead resident passed away Thursday, April 18, 2013 at David M. Dorsett Healthcare Center in Spearfish, SD. Gladys was born in Reading, England on February 9, 1921 to Charles and Edith (Marshall) Jones. She lived in England until she married Lynn R. Bunch an Army paratrooper, becoming a World War II war bride. She came...
Hazel Jennerjahn
Apr 18, 2013
Hazel G. Jennerjahn, 93 of Upton, WY died Thursday, April 18, 2013 at Weston County Manor in Newcastle, WY. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M., Friday, April 26, 2013 at the Upton United Methodist Church. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will take place at Greenwood Cemetery in Upton. Memorials...
Alvin Hagen
Apr 14, 2013
Alvin Hagen, 71 of Spearfish, passed away on Sunday, April 14, 2013 at the David M. Dorsett Health Care Center in Spearfish. Alvin "Al" Oscar Hagen was born October 14, 1941 in Kidder County, ND, the son of Oscar and Louise (Dewald) Hagen. He was raised and attended school in Medina, ND. He struggled in his early year due to...
Alice Jean Masker
Apr 10, 2013
Alice J. Masker, 75, Rapid City, SD formerly of Spearfish died Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at her home. Alice was born on January 2, 1938 in Sturgis, SD to Francis and Alice (Wilcox) Brown. An only child, she grew up on a farm outside of Wasta, SD. She loved to play the Banjo and was a member of the Gumbo...
Dolores Hinz
Apr 6, 2013
Dolores Evelyn Hinz, 83, of Sundance, passed from this life on April 6, 2013 at the David M. Dorsett Healthcare Center in Spearfish, SD. Born December 19, 1929 in Bentley, ND to Andrew and Evelyn (Heth) Krause, she was the oldest of three children. The Krause family moved to Sheridan, WY when Dolores was very young. They homesteaded in the...
Patricia "Pat" Mcgrath
Apr 3, 2013
Patricia "Pat" McGrath, 88, of Spearfish, passed away on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at the David M. Dorsett Health Care Center in Spearfish. Patricia Louise McGrath was born on February 1, 1925 in Aberdeen to Cecil and Ellouise (Spurgeon) Allen. She lived in Aberdeen until 1935 when she and her mother moved to Deadwood. In 1941, she, her mother and...
Judith Moeller
Apr 2, 2013
Judith Moeller, 65, of Spearfish, passed away on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at her home. Survivors include her daughter, Tina (Ryan) Kunka and grandson Tyler all of Spearfish. Memorial services will be held at a later date.
Marvin D. Voss
Mar 29, 2013
Marvin Daniel Voss, 91 of Lead, SD, passed away at home surrounded by his loving family on March 29, 2013. Marvin was born on August 25, 1921 to Roy and Mary (Wescott) Voss in Faulkton, SD. He enlisted in the Navy and was sworn in on January 7, 1941 and discharged in September 1945. He married Doris Hillmer on May...
Doramay Blakeman
Mar 28, 2013
Doramay C. Blakeman, age 89, passed away on March 28, 2013 in her home at Bay Square in Yarmouth, Maine. Doramay was born on July 27, 1923 in Hooper, Nebraska, the first daughter of John and Caroline Ellinghausen. At the age of five she moved to Orange, CA where her father established a commercial orange grove business. She attended schools...
Albert Perino
Mar 26, 2013
Albert G. Perino, 88 of Sundance, WY, died Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at the Crook County Memorial Nursing Home in Sundance. Albert was born November 23, 1924 at the home ranch on Oil Creek to Felix and Mary Perino. Albert spent his entire life ranching on Oil Creek. On March 15, 1964, Albert married the love of his life, Lois...
Alexander "Ron" Achtziger
Mar 26, 2013
Alexander "Ron" Achtziger, 63 of Sundance, passed away at his home on Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Ron was born on May 15, 1949 in Belle Fourche, SD to Alexander and Beatrice (Andersen) Achtziger. He served in The US Army in the Medic Unit during Vietnam and continued in the medical field as a RN after being honorably discharged. Ron and...
Delbert "Butch" Nelson
Mar 25, 2013
Delbert "Butch" Nelson, 68, of Spearfish, passed away on March 25, 2013, at the Ft. Meade VA Medical Center, in Sturgis, SD. He was born December 2, 1944, in Beach, ND, to Marvel & Adeline (Kline) Nelson. He attended Beach High School and was later employed by Beacon Oil Company. Butch later enlisted in the U.S. Army where served from...
Evelyn K. Configliacco
Mar 22, 2013
Evelyn K. Configliacco, 97 years young, lifetime resident of Lead, SD passed away March 22, 2013 in Rapid City, SD after a short illness. Vigil services will be at 7p.m., Monday, March 25, 2013 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Lead with visitation one hour prior at the church. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 2p.m., Tuesday, March 26,...
Lloyd "Vern" Hamner
Mar 22, 2013
Lloyd "Vern" Hamner, 87, who at various times in his life called New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, and South Dakota "home", moved one last time to his final home, Heaven, on March 22, 2013. Vern was a young boy during the Great Depression when his parents, Douglas and Clara Hamner, moved the family from Roswell, NM to Southern California for...
Jeanne Lee
Mar 20, 2013
Jeanne Beaupre Lee, 84, of Sundance, Wyoming, passed away on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Jeanne was born February 25th 1929, in St Paul, Minnesota to Eugene and Elizabeth Eldredge. She graduated from Central High School in St Paul in 1947 and graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1951. She married Don Lee in Laramie,...
