Obituary Listings in Spearfish, Lead, & Sundance
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Sophia Bichler
Mar 11, 2018
Sophia Bichler, 80 of Deadwood, SD, passed away on March 11, 2018 at Golden Ridge Senior Living in Lead. Sophia was born on October 17, 1937 to John Fuhrmann and Sofia (Breckner) Fuhrmann in Mettersdorf, Transylvania. The family moved from Transylvania to Lengau, Austria in 1944 due to the 2nd World War, and lived there for 8 years. She attended...
Opal Oudin
Mar 10, 2018
Opal Oudin, 96 of Sundance, passed away on March 10, 2018 in Sundance. Opal Madeline Vore was born May 22, 1921 on the Vore ranch west of Beulah, Wyoming. Opal was the eldest child of Walter Blackburn Vore and Cora Alice Willsie Vore. She had three younger siblings. Cora "Tiny" Watson, twins, Walter R. "Tuff" Vore and Freda Vore. Freda...
Gladys Clark
Mar 7, 2018
Gladys Clark, 85 of Hulett, passed away on March 7, 2018 in Sundance. Gladys Irene Frisbee was born on June 8, 1932 to Jim and Enid Frisbee on the King Place (part of the Lewis Dennis ranch) NW of Hulett, WY. She attended various country schools near their home through eighth grade. Gladys boarded out in Sundance, WY to complete...
Virginia Woodward
Mar 5, 2018
Virginia Woodard, 96, of Spearfish, South Dakota formerly of Dupree, South Dakota passed away on Monday, March 5, 2018 at the David M. Dorsett Healthcare Center in Spearfish, South Dakota. Virginia (Anderson) Woodward was born March 27, 1921 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was adopted by Bastian and Minda Anderson. She grew up in Minnesota and South Dakota. Virginia lived with...
Shirley Ashley
Mar 2, 2018
Shirley M. Ashley, Spearfish, died March 2, 2018 following a long illness. Shirley was born October 14, 1932, to Ernest and Ida Lindgren Ashley of Vale, SD, the second of three children. When Shirley was 8, her parents purchased a variety store in Spearfish and the family moved. They operated Ashley's Ben Franklin Store for many years. Shirley graduated from...
Hermann Kletzmayer
Mar 2, 2018
Hermann Kletzmayer "Hermann the German", 76, of SD died on Friday March 2nd, 2018 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. He was born in Scharding, Austria on June 4, 1941 to Wilhelm and Zazilia Kletzmayer and had three brothers and three sisters. He moved to America in 1959 and married Lola Wallace. Together they had four children who all grew up...
Gertrude Macmillan
Feb 24, 2018
Moorcroft, Wyoming resident Gertrude Hoshaw Clark Macmillan passed away February 24, 2018 at Crook County Long Term Care in Sundance, Wyoming. She was born October 3, 1919 in rural Natrona County near the Pathfinder Dam site to Harry E. Hoshaw and Mary Ann (Dodds) Hoshaw. Following her graduation from Natrona County High School she married Charles Clark. They raised Judy...
Connie Kay Jones
Feb 23, 2018
Connie Kay (Collins) Jones of Spearfish, SD joined the choir of angels surrounded by her loving husband and family on February 23, 2018 after a courageous battle with cancer. Connie Kay Collins was born September 29, 1940, at McMinnville OR, to William F. "Frank" and Mildred (Birkeland) Collins. She attended one year of school in a rural school near Gaston,...
Jw Nuckolls
Feb 21, 2018
Jw Nuckolls, 84, of rural Crook County died at his home Wednesday February 21, 2018. He was born September 2, 1933, the youngest of Will and Myra (Lawrence) Nuckolls' seven children. He attended Barlow Canyon Country School and Hulett High School where he graduated in 1951. He had his heart set on attending college so he made a deal with...
Edith Wood
Feb 20, 2018
Heaven gained an angel, as Edith Wood age 73 passed away on February 20, 2018 in Lander Wyoming. Edie was born on January 15, 1945 in Rapid City, SD, the 7th child of Stephen "Kicker" Wood, and Gladys (Lawrence) Wood. Edie moved to the Wyoming State Training School in Lander at the age of 17 and that was her home....
Caroline Diede
Feb 19, 2018
Caroline Diede, 89 of Spearfish, SD passed away on Monday February 19, 2018. She was born on August 13, 1928 to Christian and Pauline Schorzmann. She married Jacob Diede in 1946, and to this union they had two sons, H Jake Diede who resides in Branson, Missouri, and Leo S. Diede who resides in Deadwood, South Dakota. Caroline was a...
Benjamin G. Dean
Feb 19, 2018
Benjamin Gary Dean, 35, of Valentine, NE passed away on February 19, 2018. He was born in Spearfish, SD on January 29, 1983 to Dennis and Sandra Dean. Growing up in Spearfish, he was very active in sports. He played soccer, baseball and lettered in golf during high school. He enjoyed playing pool with his friends, hanging out and riding...
Dominica Olah
Feb 19, 2018
Dominica "Maggie" Olah. Maggie was born October 17, 1919, and went home to be with our Lord at the age of 98 on Monday, February 19, 2018 at the David M. Dorsett Healthcare Center in Spearfish, South Dakota. She is survived by one sister, three children, one grandchild and four great-grandchildren. In accordance with her wishes, there will be no...
Sylvia Clauser
Feb 15, 2018
Sylvia Helen (Hart) Clauser, 79, died on February 15, 2018, in Spearfish, South Dakota, after a long, courageous battle with cancer. She passed away at Tender Care Assisted Living, where she had been lovingly cared for by her sister Aileen Burr. Sylvia was born on June 20, 1938, in McPherson County, near Aberdeen, South Dakota, to Joseph and Helen Hart....
Jacqueline A. Sargent
Feb 9, 2018
Jacqueline Ann Sargent, 60 of rural Lead passed away on February 9th, 2018. She was born on February 6th, 1958, in Hettinger, ND, to Jerry and Rosella Fossen, with her loving siblings, Jerry, John, Kerry, Robert, and Susan. Her memory is survived by her loving husband, Randahl; her son, Justin, Virginia (daughter in law), Dallas (son), and Evelyn (granddaughter), all...
Russell E. Tracy
Feb 9, 2018
Russell Edward Tracy, 81 of Sundance, passed away February 9th at his home surrounded by his family after a brief illness with cancer. Funeral services will be held February 14th, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Sundance. Russell was born December 7, 1936 in Sundance, Wyoming to Walter and Josephine (Klinkner) Tracy. He was the youngest...
Susan Shell
Feb 7, 2018
Susan Orlene Shell of Upton, Wyoming passed away February 7, 2018 at the age of 70. She was born April 4, 1947 to Orren and Mary (Rankin) Clyde and was raised in Osage, Wyoming as the oldest of ten children. She attended elementary school in Osage and high school in Upton, where she graduated as valedictorian in 1965. She went...
Annette Waldo
Feb 6, 2018
Annette (Bernard) Waldo, 98, passed away peacefully February 6, 2018, at the Crossings at Bon Air in Richmond, Virginia. Annette was born December 15, 1919, in Manchester, New Hampshire, to Arthur and Eva (Cote) Bernard. She attended all 12 years of school there, graduating in 1937. After graduation, she attended secretarial school. French was spoken at home, in the schools,...
Betty Holmes
Feb 4, 2018
Betty Ruth Holmes, 98 of Spearfish, South Dakota passed away on Sunday, February 4, 2018. Betty Ruth Rowland was born to Mary and R.B. Rowland in Sheridan, Wyoming, July 18, 1919. Betty was the oldest of twelve brothers and sisters. At the age of 18 Betty married Jack Holmes. Betty and Jack started their married life together working for the...
Nadine Wolf
Feb 3, 2018
Nadine Jeanette (Sward) Wolf, 82 of Hulett, WY passed away February 3, 2018 at Belle Estate Senior Living in Belle Fourche, SD after a ten-year battle with cancer. Funeral services for Nadine will be at 1:00 PM on February 7, 2018 in Hulett at the Greater Hulett Community Center with Pastor Jim Palus of the First Baptist Church officiating. Interment...
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