OBITUARIES
of
Miner County South Dakota

LORING, Frank Dr. Frank Mansfield Loring, 85, of Howard, S. D., a pioneer physician and surgeon in Sanborn and Miner counties, died at a Sioux Falls hospital. He had been confined to his bed for three and a half months. Dr. Loring was born January 22, 1861, at Prince Edward Island, Canada, and came to Michigan at the age of eight with his mother, his father having died when he was a small child. He attended high school and business college at Kalamazoo and took his medical degree at the University of Michigan. Later he specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases and did post graduate work in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans. His practice began in Sanborn and Miner counties when he was 24 years old. Dr. Loring lived in Artesian for 58 years and for the past three years at Howard. He was a member of the Lions club at Howard. The funeral services were held at 10 o'clock, Monday morning of this week at Sioux Falls, and interment made in the Woodlawn cemetery at that place. Submitted by Karen Hammer - Woonsocket News, Sep. 12, 1946 SCHMIT, Dorothy Canova - Dorothy Freda Schmit, 81, died Saturday, Oct. 30, 1999, at Bethany Lutheran Home in Sioux Falls. Dorothy Mentele was born Aug. 6, 1918, at Epiphany, where she was raised. She attended St. Mary's Catholic School and worked at home. She married William Schmit May 29, 1944, at Epiphany, and they farmed in the area. She was a caretaker in her home. Her husband died Nov. 28, 1984. She was a member of the Epiphany Catholic Church Ladies Altar Society, Happy Mothers Club and the Catholic Church of Epiphany. Survivors include four sons: David of Alexandria, Ron and Kenny, both of Parker, and Tim of Canova four daughters: Kathy Treloar, Judy Even and Karen Carlson, all of Sioux Falls, and Rita Buttemeier of Howard 27 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Catholic Church of Epiphany, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation is from noon until 6 p.m. today at the Willoughby Funeral Home in Howard, with a Scripture service at 8 p.m. at the church. Contributed by Candi Horton - Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) - November 1, 1999 TROLLINGER, Mrs. M. Clinton, Feb. 19. – Mrs. M. Trollinger died from fright Monday near Leesville. Her son was cutting down a tree and the lady was sitting in a wagon watching him. The tree fell toward the wagon and the boy called to her to get out of the way. She seemed unable to move and the tree crashed down in the rear of the wagon. As it did so the woman fell back dead. Physicians who examined the body found no evidences of injury and gave the cause of death as paralysis of the heart from fright. Contributed by James VanDerMark – Aberdeen Daily News, 20 February 1892