Huron (SD) Daily Plainsman
November 24, 1972
LOIS MERKLE STERRETT
Gann Valley -- Funeral service was held Wednesday at the Congregational Church for Mrs. Lois Sterrett, 49, who died Monday at Jerauld County Memorial Hospital, Wessington Springs.
Lois C. Merkle was born Aug. 13, 1923, in Aurora County to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Merkle. She attended high school in Letcher and married Lester Sterrett, May 28, 1941, in Pipestone, Minn. She lived in the Letcher and Fedora vicinity for 25 years until moving to Gann Valley in 1967.
Survivors include seven children, Mrs. Robert (Dorothy) Elyea, Brookings; James, Huron; Rod, Fort Pierre; Nancy Sterrett, Storla; Mrs. Bill (Jan) Price, Yankton; Mrs. Troy (Carol) Pickner, Gann Valley; Kurt, at home; her mother, Mrs. Charles Merkle; one sister, Lila Maakestad, Woonsocket; and two brothers, Robert Merkle, Lanes Park, Ill., and Donald Merkle, Cherry Creek, Ill.
Funeral arrangements were announced by Lee's Funeral Service, Wessington Springs.
The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota
Wednesday, February 21, 1962
JOHN E. ROWAN
Artesian—Requiem Mass will be celebrated Saturday at 10 a.m. in the St. Charles Catholic Church in Artesian for John E. Rowan, 82, life-time resident of Artesian, who died early Wednesday morning.
Burial will be made in Artesian. A rosary service will be recited at 6 p.m. Friday, in the Willoughby Funeral Home, Howard, which is in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his widow, Stella; two brothers, Henry and William, all of Artesian; one sister, Mrs. H. B. Hallet, Oral.
The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota
Sunday, August 19, 1962
PEARL ARMSTRONG ROESSLER
Funeral services are scheduled today, Sunday, at 1:30 p.m. at the Welter Funeral Home for Mrs. Pearl Armstrong Roessler, 643 Illinois Ave., S.W. The Rev. John Davey will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Claire Chladek, Robert Mann, Herbert Christen, Duane Stratton, Dale Koch and Edwin Mann.
Mrs. Roessler, a resident of Huron since 1902, died Friday at St. John’s Hospital at the age of 77.
Pearl Armstrong was born Sept. 2, 1884, in Sanborn County, the daughter of Nelson and Kitty Armstrong. She moved to Huron in 1902 where she had lived since. She married Al Roessler in 1916. He preceded her in death in 1923. Mrs. Roessler was a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors include one brother, John Armstrong, Huron; and one nephew, James V. Armstrong, Sacramento, Calif.
The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota
Sunday, August 19, 1962
ANTON HINKER
Woonsocket—Anton Hinker died Friday at a Bismarck, N. D., hospital.
Funeral rites are scheduled at 9:30 a.m. Monday at St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Church, Woonsocket. Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Basham Funeral Home.
Hinker was born Oct. 13, 1887.
Survivors include two sons, LaVern and Leo, both of Sioux Falls; three daughters, Mrs. Florence Ruhoff, Morristown; Mrs. LaVina Sinclair and Mrs. Geraldine Sinclair, both of Sioux Falls.
His wife preceded him in death in 1942.
The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota
Monday, July 23, 1961
HANNORA GATZE
Woonsocket – Mrs. Hannora Gatze, formerly of Artesian, died at Harlowton, Mont. Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 6, at 10 a.m. at the St. Charles Catholic Church in Artesian.
The Rev. Fr. Russo, Letcher, will officiate. No rosary will be held. The body will lie in state Wednesday, July 8, at Basham Funeral Home in Woonsocket. The burial will be in the family plot at Artesian.
Mrs. Gatze was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence J. Gatze.
Unknown newspaper
Submitted by Jacque McDonnell
DELLA ELLSWORTH
MILLER Delia Ellsworth, 95, of Miller, died Saturday, April 5, 2003, at Avera St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist Church in Miller with Bill Myers and the Rev. Richard Rinearson officiating, burial will be in G.A.R. Cemetery at Miller.
Visitation will be from 1 to 7 p.m. today, with a 7 p.m. prayer service, at Reck Funeral Home in Miller.
Delia Mae Cunningham was born Sept. 8, 1907, to Hayes and Anna (Lindebak) Cunningham at Lane. She graduated from high school in Lane. She worked in a cafe in Woonsocket.
On Aug. 31, 1929, she married George Ellsworth in Huron. They farmed north of Woonsocket for a number of years and moved to a ranch north of Ree Heights in April 1945.
She and her husband milked cows for many years and raised cattle until his death in 1987. She moved to Miller Manor in December 1997.
She was a member of Greenleaf United Methodist Church and Greenleaf United Methodist Women. She taught Sunday school for several years.
She is survived by three sons, Aaron (Rita) Ellsworth of Miller, Kenneth (Barbara) Ellsworth of Austin, Texas, and Robert (Bernice) Ellsworth of Stephan; four daughters, Patricia (Jasper) Shaw of Miller, Karen (Robert) Kroning of Northridge, Calif., Janice (Eugene) Moncur and Barbara (Gordon) Slunecka, both of Miller; 31 grandchildren, 69 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Harold (Virginia) Cunningham of Wenatchee, Wash., and Cecil Cunningham of Cheyenne, Wyo.; one sister, Doris Kieser, of Wessington Springs; and one sister-in-law, Dorothy (Emil) Jenner of Wessington Springs.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on Nov. 16, 1987; one grandson; one granddaughter; two great-grand-daughters; and five sisters.
The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota
Friday, July 9, 1971
HERMAN H. DREYER
Woonsocket—Last rite was held Tuesday at Basham Funeral Chapel for Herman H. Dreyer, 82, who died July 2 at the Veteran’s Hospital, Hot Springs. Graveside rite was conducted by American Legion Post 20 at Eventide Cemetery.
Dreyer was born March 6, 1889, and Walnut, Iowa. He was married July 27, 1920 to Fern Parsons at Luverne, Minn. They farmed at Letcher from 1921 to 1936 when they moved to Woonsocket. He was caretaker of Eventide Cemetery 12 years and the last 12 years he was a patient at the V. A. Hospital.
Survivors include his widow; one daughter, Mrs. Dallas (Delores) Baysinger, Woonsocket; three grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Herman Mueller, Walnut, Iowa. His parents, four sisters and one brother preceded him in death.
Huron (SD) Daily Plainsman
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1974
MARILYN HEGG ALEXANDER
Woonsocket—The funeral service for Mrs. Rodney J. Alexander, 43, who died Tuesday at St. John Regional Medical Center, Huron, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, Huron, with the Rev. Richard Meyer, Wessington Springs, and the Rev. Kurt Lehmkuhl officiating. Burial will be in Restlawn Memory Gardens, Huron.
Marilyn Hegg was born in Beadle County, June 3, 1930, the daughter of Ted and Clara Hegg. She married Rodney Alexander June 6, 11948. Mrs. Alexander was co-chairman of the
American Cancer Society of Sanborn County. She was a graduate of Woonsocket High School in 1947 and attended Huron College.
Survivors include her widower, Rodney, Woonsocket; two sons, Steve, Huron, and Scott, Aberdeen; two daughters, Rhonda, Huron and Lisa, at home; her mother, Mrs. Clara Hegg, rural Huron; and three brothers, Duane, rural Huron, Allan, Tacoma, Wash., and Dennis, Lake Andes.
Pallbearers are Al Kingen, Don Snedeker, Delno Endahl, Douglas Murphy and Luverne Hanson.
Funeral arrangements were announced by the Basham Funeral Home, Woonsocket.
Friday, June 2, 1911
The Eugene Daily Guard (Eugene, OR)
submitted by Jim Dezotell
At the Eugene hospital, June 1, 1911, at 4:15 p.m., Francis Robert Berlin, aged 18 years. He was operated upon a few days ago for appendicitis, but it was too late. He leaves his father, Paul B. Berlin, near Fremont, in eastern Oregon, besides five brothers. The remains will be held awaiting word from the father, who has been employed 40 or 50 miles from a telephone line. The remains will be taken to Woonsocket, S. D., his birthplace, for burial. The young man was a member of the Woodmen of the World and carried a policy of $2000 in the order.
Monday, June 5, 1911
The Eugene Daily Guard (Eugene, OR)
The remains of Francis Robert Berlin, who died a few days ago as a result of an operation for appendicitis, were shipped on the noon train today for Woonsocket, S.D. where they will be buried. Thefuneral was conducted this forenoon at the Gordon chapel. The Modern Woodmen, of which order the young man was a member, attend the services in a body.
Woonsocket News, Sep. 12, 1946
Sylvester Miller, age 49, brother of Max Miller, of Woonsocket, died at a hospital in Pierre, last Saturday. His funeral was Tuesday at his home at Polo, S.D.
His mother, Mrs. Catherine Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Max Miller, and sons, Joe and Paul, of Woonsocket, Jack Miller, a brother from Arlington, Va., and his daughter, Caroline, and Mr. and Mrs. Milburn Johnson and daughter, Erlynn, of Sioux City, attended the funeral.
Woonsocket News, Sep. 12, 1946
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.
Woonsocket News, Sep. 12, 1946
Jacob Theis, 89 years old, the father of Mrs. Wm. Maher, was buried at the Catholic cemetery in Woonsocket today (Thursday) with Father Edward, of St. Wilfrid's church, officiating at the grave. funeral services were held at Farmer, S. D., and the body brought to Woonsocket for burial, beside his wife, and a son, Henry, who were buried here some years ago. Mr. Theis was the father of 17 children, 13 of which are still living.
Mr. Theis spent many of his summers in Woonsocket at the Wm. Maher home.
He passed away at the St. Joseph hospital in Mitchell last Friday. He had been confined to the hospital at several different times the past year, receiving medical and surgical attention.
Sep. 19, 1946 Woonsocket News
Funeral services were held Monday morning at ten o'clock at St. Wilfrid's Catholic church in Woonsocket for John Moran, who met his death in an auto accident last Friday morning. He was buried in the family lot in the Catholic cemetery at Woonsocket.
Rev. Edward Carraher conducted the funeral services.
John, age 33, was the youngest son of Mrs. Matt Moran, of Woonsocket. He was a member of the St. Wilfrid's choir, of the Knights of Columbus, and of the American Legion. Both the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion attended the funeral services, with Legion services being held at the grave, and military honors given.
He died Saturday morning in St. Joseph's hospital at Mitchell, where he was taken Friday morning following an accident at the railroad crossing on East Seventh street.
His physician said he suffered a fractured skull and undetermined internal injuries in the accident. According to reports of other occupants of the car, they had returned from a dance at Ruskin Park, and was taking the members of their party to their homes when the accident occurred. They were driving east on East Seventh street, and according to Douglas Strand, driver of the car, he was blinded by light on an oncoming car when approaching the railroad crossing, which caused him to get too far over and hit the open rails, causing the car to turn over several times, throwing two of the passengers from the car, John being one of them. The car must have rolled over three or four times, as it came to rest near a big tree about 75 feet east of the railroad crossing.
Fredrick and Matt Rowan, who were passengers of the car, as well as the driver, Douglas Strand escaped serious injury, while Joyce Morrison, also an occupant of the car, was badly jarred and shaken up, but apparently suffered no serious injury. she was also examined at a Mitchell hospital, but was released and came home Friday. The car, belonging to Strand, a Ford V-8, in which the occupants were riding, was a complete wreck.
Pallbearers serving at the funeral and burial services were Jerome Hendrick, Leonard Dankey, Henry Collignon, Joe Kemptner, Bob Vetter and Tom McCall.
The Basham Funeral Service was in charge of the body at the services.
Obituary
John Mathew Moran was born in Woonsocket, February 17, 1913, and died September 14, 1946, at St. Josephs hospital in Mitchell, at the age of 33 years, 6 months, and 28 days. He graduated from Woonsocket high school with the class of 1930, at Notre Dame College, Mitchell, in 1932. He taught school in Corson county from 1932 to 1941, when he enlisted in the Navy on July 25, 1941, and he received his honorable discharge from the Navy, August 3, 1942. The past year he attended the University of Notre Dame, Ind. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Mary J. Moran, sisters, Clare, of Woonsocket; Mrs. Helen Schmitz and Mrs. Lloyd Tysdal, of Mitchell; brothers, Bernard F. and Francis C., of Woonsocket; Ed., of Thedford, Nebr.; Joe, of Grand Island, Nebr., and Virgil of Los Angeles, Calif. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion.
Those from out-of-town attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moran and family, of Grand Island, Nebr.; Mrs. Helen Schmitz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tysdal, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Busch and daughter, Kathryn, Mrs. Earl Clements, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Callan, Mrs. Frank Lymmons, Ed. Sabastian, and Don McKillip, all of Mitchell; Mr. and Mrs. Celston Busch and Miss Patricia Shanley, of Luverne, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Schlimgen, Mr. and Mrs. tony McEldowney, of Huron; Mr. and Mrs. M. P. McEldowney, Frank McEldowney, Mr. and Mrs. Mike McEldowney and son, James, of Wessington Springs.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere thanks to the American Legion, Knights of Columbus, friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us at the time of the death of our son and brother, and for the many spiritual and floral bouquets.
--Mrs. Matt Moran and family
Mrs. Sarah King
Died-Tuesday, February 2, 1897, of Pleuro Pneumonia, Mrs. A. King, aged 59 years, 7 months and 15 days. Funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church, Thursday, Feb 4, at 2 o'clock p.m. and were conducted by the pastor, Rev. White assisted by Rev. Rayson of Woonsocket.
Sarah A. Townsend was born in Shulsberg, Wis., June 17, 1837. Dec 21, 1856 when in her 20th year she was married to Jackson King. The early portion of their married life was spent in New York and Illinois, and in 1872 they moved to Charles City, Iowa, where they continued to reside until 1881, when they came to Dakota and settled in Mitchell. In the spring of 1884 they moved to Artesian and have ever since been numbered among our most esteemed families.
Never in the history of our town have our citizens been more shocked than on last Tuesday morning when it was known that Mrs. Jackson King was dead. While many knew of her illness, no one thought it was more than a severe cold or the la grippe now prevalent in our midst, and consequently no one was in the least prepared for the sad news that has cast a gloom over our citizens which it seems impossible to shake off. In our whole community not one could have been taken who would be more missed than will Mrs. King. Always the one to take the lead in all public benefit work, ever ready to assist those in need and never without those kind words of comfort so healing to a sore and troubled heart; she won for herself the esteem and affection of all who knew her. Of Mrs. King it could be truly said, she was a kind and affectionate wife, a fond mother and a friend to all. She leaves her husband a son, and three daughters to mourn her loss, but in going from these she will join another daughter who had preceded her to that better home where there is no sorrow and where partings and tears are unknown.
Advocate, Artesian, Sanborn Co, SD
Reprinted in the Worthington Advance, Feb 11, 1897
Submitted by Gary Boomgaarden
The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota
February 19, 1964
MRS. ANNIE STONE OF ALPENA DIES; FUNERAL FRIDAY
Alpena - Mrs. Annie Stone of Alpena died in Jerauld County Memorial Hospital at Wessington Springs at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday at the age of 93.
Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the Basham Funeral Home in Woonsocket. Burial will be in Rest Haven Cemetery at Alpena.
Mrs. Stone had made her home at Storla Sunset Home for several years and prior to that had lived with her brother, Herbert Lound in Alpena since 1948. She came to Alpena after her husband's death at Denver in 1948. She had lived in Denver since 1911 and was married to William Stone in 1923. She is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Maud Long, Huron, Miss Rose Lound, Winside, Neb., and Mrs. Abbie Wells, Omaha, and two brothers, Herbert Lound, Alpena and Earl Lound, Phoenix, Ariz.
