Obituary Listings in Spearfish, Lead, & Sundance
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Margery Brown
Dec 26, 2019
Margery Brown 92, of Rapid City and formerly of Deadwood, passed away on December 26, 2019.
Memorial services will be at 10:30 AM on Monday, December 30, 2019 at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Deadwood. In lieu of flowers a memorial has been established to benefit the blind in South Dakota.
John Jones Iii
Dec 26, 2019
John Daniel Jones III, 39 of Spearfish SD passed on December 26, 2019.
Visitation will be from 11:00-1:00 pm on Thursday, January 2, 2020 at Fidler-Isburg Funeral Chapel in Spearfish. Funeral services will follow at 1:00 PM at the chapel with burial at Rose Hill Cemetery.
John was born...
Harold "Smokey" Parke
Dec 25, 2019
Harold "Smokey" Parke, 87, of Lead, South Dakota, joined his Savior on Christmas Day in Rapid City.
He was born on May 20, 1932, to Myron and Ida Parke of Kadoka, SD. Harold attended Kadoka High School as well as Dakota Wesleyan University and Grace College of the Bible. Harold served in the...
Elizabeth "Betty" Stensland
Dec 19, 2019
Betty Stensland, 92 of Rapid City and formerly of Spearfish and Buffalo, SD passed away on December 19, 2019 at the Rapid City Hospice House.
Family services will take place at a later date.
To all the staff at Avantara Saint Cloud (Bella Vista) and Black Hills Hospice, a...
Doris Clark
Dec 18, 2019
Doris Clark, 96, of Spearfish, SD passed away on Wednesday, December 18, 2019, at Spearfish Canyon Healthcare in Spearfish, SD.
Arrangements are pending with Fidler-Isburg Funeral Chapels and Isburg Crematory of Spearfish.
Tillie Stott
Dec 16, 2019
Tillie Stott, 95, died peacefully during the sunrise on Monday, December 16, 2019 at Spearfish Regional Hospital with her children by her side after a short illness.
Tillie was born on December 1, 1924, in Isabel, South Dakota to Alexander and Anna (Bertsch) Zulauf. She was the second child and joined sister Elsie...
Richard Johnson
Dec 14, 2019
Richard "Dick" Johnson 62, of Spearfish, passed away on Saturday, December 14, 2019.
Dick was born to Danny and Elta Johnson in Huron, SD on February 21, 1957. He grew-up in a home with six other siblings. The love from this up-bringing came out in all of them, and Dick brought that to...
Herbert Michel
Dec 13, 2019
Herbert Michel, 92, of Spearfish, SD passed away on Friday, December 13, 2019, at Spearfish Canyon Healthcare in Spearfish, SD.
Herbert was born January 7, 1927 in West Germany a son of Alma Michel During World War II. Herbert met a young Romanian girl, Hulda Zehmer. who had been relocated there. Following a two-year courtship...
Myron Sullivan Ii
Dec 9, 2019
Myron Sullivan II, was born in Lead, SD to Margaret and Myron Sullivan on July 30 th , 1955. He was the youngest of their three children and only son. He spent his life in the Blacks Hills, living in both Lead and Spearfish, SD. He passed away due to complications of open heart surgery on December...
Raymond Joseph Grosek
Dec 3, 2019
Raymond Joseph Grosek, 93 formerly of Lead, South Dakota, passed away peacefully December 3, 2019, at Rolling Hills Healthcare in Belle Fourche.
Ray was born to Frank and Jeannette (Swant) Grosek in Rusk Township, South Dakota, on March 18, 1926. Ray grew up working on the family farm where they used horses for...
Kathryn Kinsall
Nov 27, 2019
Kathryn Kinsall, 57, of Sundance, WY passed away on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at the Crook County Memorial Hospital in Sundance, WY, after a battle with cancer.
On February 20, 1962, as John Glenn was orbiting the earth, Kathryn "Kat" was born to Lester and Arlene Mauch in Sundance. She was their fourth and last child. Kat...
Robert "Bob" Stephen Ulrich
Nov 23, 2019
Robert "Bob" Stephen Ulrich, 91, passed away on November 23, 2019, at the Crook County Hospital in Sundance, Wyoming.
Bob was born October 1, 1928, in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Joseph Stephen and Lena Corrine (Endres) Ulrich, and raised in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, where his hotelier grandfather also ran an ice...
Jill M. Cichosz
Nov 21, 2019
Jill Maureen Cichosz gained her heavenly crown on November 21, 2019 at the age of 39, after a long battle with cancer. She passed away peacefully in her sleep at Rapid City Hospital in South Dakota surrounded by her loving husband and family.
Jill was born on July 15, 1980 in Vancouver, WA....
Virginia R. Massie
Nov 20, 2019
Virginia "Ginger" Massie passed away on November 20, 2019, from health reasons. Ginger was born on October 13, 1948 in Belle Fourche, South Dakota to Walter and Jennie Massie. Ginger grew up on the family ranch west of Belle Fourche. She participated in 4H, showing calves and horses at local fairs and horse shows. In 1967, Ginger married Gary...
Beulah Mckay
Nov 19, 2019
Beulah Ione (Petro) McKay was born on October 26, 1919 on the family ranch at Rumford, SD. She was the 4 th daughter and 5 th child of Anna (Adams) Petro and Charles Petro. She passed away on November 19, 2019 at the age of 100 years and 23 days at the Regional Hospice Care in Rapid...
Joan Follette
Nov 18, 2019
Joan Delilah (Anderson) Follette of Spearfish passed away from complications of a heart attack the evening of November 18, 2019Â at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Joan was born October 24, 1936 in Deadwood, SD the first of five children to Andy and Dorothea Anderson. She graduated from Spearfish High School in 1954 and...
Howard Dean Jacobs
Nov 17, 2019
Howard Dean Jacobs, 86 of Spearfish, SD, passed away on November 17, 2019, at Spearfish Regional Hospital.
Howard was born on October 10, 1933, in Corsica, SD, to John and Lena (Hemeyer) Jacobs. Shortly thereafter they moved to a farm 3 miles NW of Stickney, SD. He attended Pleasant Lake Consolidated School, then...
Ann Grosek
Nov 13, 2019
Ann Grosek, 92, Lead, passed away peacefully November 13, 2019 at Belle Fourche, SD.
"Annie" was born to Joe and Veronica Gonsoir in Day County, SD May 12, 1927 and spent her childhood on the family farm near Grenville. She graduated from St. Joseph's Catholic High School and worked as a waitress in Webster. On June 11,...
Melvin Lee Snook
Nov 11, 2019
Melvin Lee Snook, 63 of Hulett, Wyoming died Monday, November 11, 2019 at his home.
Memorial services will be held at 10:30am, Saturday, November 16, 2019 at the Greater Hulett Community Center with a luncheon to follow.
Arrangements are under the care of Fidler-Roberts & Isburg Funeral Chapel of Sundance.
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