Obituary Listings in Spearfish, Lead, & Sundance
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Wade Keats
Oct 22, 2021
Wade Travis Keats, 47 of Belle Fourche, SD passed away Friday, October 22nd, 2021 at Billings Clinic Hospital at 6 am.
Travis was born June 20th, 1974 to Carolyn (Virginia) Williams and Richard Lynn Keats in Belle Fourche. He grew up traveling the country with his mother but finished high school in Gillette,...
Lois Perino
Oct 20, 2021
Lois E. Perino, 83 of Spearfish, SD formerly of the Four Corners, WY area passed from this life on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, at the Billings Clinic in Billings, MT following a brief illness.
A memorial service will be held at 1:00pm on Friday, November 12, 2021, at Fidler-Isburg Funeral Chapel in Spearfish, SD. Inurnment will be...
William Severns
Oct 13, 2021
< p style="text-align: justify;">William L. Severns of Spearfish, SD passed away peacefully on October 13, 2021, with loving family at his side after a long journey struggling from the effects of Parkinson's Disease with Lewy Body Dementia.
Born May 24, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois to Roger L. Severns, Sr. and Margaret Lauritzen Severns. Will grew...
Robert Brechtel
Oct 13, 2021
Robert Vail Brechtel (April 25, 1925-October 13, 2021) 96 of Vale, Â was the youngest of five children born to Hubert and Ina Brechtel. Marrying the girl he saw singing the National Anthem from a truck box with a piano at a Farmer's Union picnic, Robert shared 74 1/2 miraculous years with the love of his life as they grew...
Waynita Beth Schlosser
Oct 11, 2021
Waynita Beth Schlosser, 73 passed away October 11 th 2021 at her home in Moorcroft, Wyoming.
Waynita was born September 14 th 1948 to Wayne and Elma (Hale) Yates. She was raised in Whitewood, SD and attended school in that area. She attended Cosmetology school in Rapid City, SD. Waynita met and married her wild man Joe...
Sheldon Mead
Oct 10, 2021
Sheldon Lowell Mead, 50, Belle Fourche, SD passed away on Sunday October 10 th , 2021 as the result of a car accident near Phillip, SD.
Sheldon was born to Sharon and Barry Mead on December 26 th , 1970 in Spearfish, SD. He grew up in Spearfish, Sturgis, Rapid City and Black...
David Reinert
Oct 9, 2021
David John Reinert (October 28, 1954) 66, of Mud Butte, South Dakota, shuffled off this mortal coil on Saturday, October 9 th, 2021. In spite of his flaws of ordering his steak done medium well, adding too much sugar to his coffee, and napping at inopportune times, he was generally well regarded by those who met him,...
Ann Steinmeyer
Oct 8, 2021
Ann L. (Olson) Steinmeyer, 91 of Spearfish, SD Â passed peacefully into eternal life on October 8, 2021. after a fall at home and a short stay in Pathways Hospice in Loveland, Colorado.
Ann was born on August 7, 1930, to Henry E. and Anna C. Olson at home in Chase County, Nebraska. She...
Ethel J. Chatfield
Oct 6, 2021
Ethel Anderson Chatfield was born on April 9, 1926, and earned her Angel Wings on October 6, 2021. Her parents, Andrew and Marie, were Danish immigrants and she was one of the youngest of nine children. Ethel loved her siblings fiercely. She attended rural schools and then graduated from Sundance High School in 1945. She was Football Queen,...
Colleen Marie Hauge
Oct 6, 2021
Colleen Marie Hauge, 89, from Spearfish, SD, went to rest with the Lord on Wednesday, October 6 th , 2021, at Rolling Hills Healthcare in Belle Fourche.
Colleen was born on July 11, 1932, in Hettinger, ND. She was the only child of Cletus John Connery and Anna Maria (Marie) Giannonatti. Colleen was baptized at Sacred Heart...
Bobby D. Roberts
Oct 5, 2021
Bobby Dale Roberts, 60, of Belle Fourche, passed away on October 5, 2021 at the Hospice House in Rapid City after battling pancreatic cancer.
Bobby was born October 14, 1960 in Belle Fourche, SD to John and Jean Roberts. He spent his childhood in Belle Fourche, SD and Anchorage, AK. He met the love of his life,...
William H. Sherrard
Oct 4, 2021
William "Bill" H. Sherrard, 73 of Sundance, Wyoming passed away quietly at his home the morning of October 4, 2021.
Bill was born in Deadwood, SD and graduated from Sundance High School. He proudly served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and was stationed in Izmir Turkey for two years. He attended the University...
John G. Haivala
Oct 2, 2021
John Gordon Haivala, 74, passed away October 2, 2021.
John was born in Spearfish on December 4, 1946. He was raised in Buffalo, SD, where he graduated high school in 1964 and then from Black Hills State College. John and Judy married August 14 th in 1966 in Buffalo. John started out as teacher, then a real...
Wanda A. Blakeman
Oct 1, 2021
Wanda Alice Blakeman, 55, passed away October 1, 2021 at Crook County Hospital in Sundance, Wyoming. She was born November 22, 1965 in Rapid City, SD to Ted and Clara (Morganflash) Blakeman. She was living in Sundance Wyoming at the time of her passing.
Wanda enjoyed spending time with family and friends, especially with her grandkids. She...
Bennet "Gil" Irving Gilbertson
Sep 30, 2021
Bennet (Gil) Gilbertson 86, of Spearfish, SD passed away on September 30, 2021, at the Rolling Hills Healthcare in Belle Fourche.
Bennet was born on July 28, 1935, to Christ and Selma Gilbertson in rural Erhard, MN. He graduated from Pelican Rapids High School in 1953. He was married to LaVae Anderson on February 11, 1956, in...
Verna "Butch" Nelson
Sep 30, 2021
Verna "Butch" Nelson, 81 of Lead, SD passed away peacefully with her loved ones, both near and far, close to her heart on September 30, 2021 at the Hospice House in Rapid City, SD.
Butch was born on May 29, 1940 in Belle Fourche, SD to Helen Anderson and Louis Ray Liming. She...
Perry B. Messmer
Sep 30, 2021
Perry was called home to the Lord September 30, 2021. He was born on July 2, 1960 to Bert and Susan Messmer in Dickinson, ND. He grew up in Deadwood SD and graduated from LHS in 1978. He drove truck for most of his life after high school. Most recently he drove with Hammond Trucking hauling road oil. He...
Maria Corey
Sep 28, 2021
Maria Corey went to be in her Eternal Church on September 28 th with an resolute faith that she passed on to her children. She was born in Ober-Eidisch, Rumania to Johann and Susanna Klein on August 16, 1936. During World War ll in 1944 she moved with her parents and family to Austria and lived there...
Nicholas Robert Aulner
Sep 28, 2021
The family of Nicholas Robert Aulner of Spearfish, SD is saddened to announce his passing on September 28, 2021 at 83 years of age.
Nicholas was born June 4, 1938 in Alexandria, SD. He was preceded in death by his parents, August and Laura Aulner, brother, Francis Aulner and beloved daughter, Joan Kelley.
He is...
Richard "Dick" G. Tinker
Sep 27, 2021
Richard G. Tinker, 92, passed away at RC Monument Health on September 27th, 2021.
Dick was born March 30, 1929 in Windsor, VT to John G. and Helen Tinker. He was raised in a military family and attended school in many states including VT, FL, and IN, before returning to Windsor to graduate...
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