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Lois Hazel Vogelgesang
PHILIP - Lois Hazel Williams was born December 5, 1917, on her family's homestead near Hot Springs, the daughter of J.T. and Hazel (Chilcote) Williams.
She grew up on the homestead and attended Lithia Rural School and Lennon Rural School in that area.
She was united in marriage to Conrad Vogelgesang on June 8, 1936, in Hot Springs, South Dakota.
They made their home on a farm seven miles west of Wanblee. They continued to operate the farm until Conrad's death on April 21, 1965.
She and her son, Conrad, Jr. and his family continued to operate the farm until June 1999, when blindness forced her into the Philip Nursing Home.
Lois was the last living charter member of the Wanblee Ladies Birthday Club.
Grateful for having shared her life are one son, Conrad Vogelgesang and his wife Paula of Wanblee; one daughter, Hazel Kay Barrieau and her husband Bernie of Litchfield, New Hampshire; three grandsons, Ryan Barrieau of Litchfield, New Hampshire, and Jay and Michael Vogelgesang of Wanblee; one granddaughter, Jill Wolfe of Shreveport, Louisiana; one sister, Lorna Gallentine of Rapid City; and a host of other relatives and friends.
In addition to her husband Conrad, Lois was preceded in death by her parents, J.T. and Hazel (Chilcote) Williams; two brothers, Gilbert "Bud" and Vern Williams; one sister, Lenore Gaebler; an infant granddaughter in 1973; and a grandson, Aaron Barrieau who died in June 1979.
Funeral services for Lois Hazel Vogelgesang, age 84, of Philip, formerly of Wanblee, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, February 1, 2002, at the Presbyterian Church in Kadoka, with Pastor Gary McCubbin officiating. Lois died Monday evening, January 28, 2002, at the Hans P. Peterson Memorial Hospital in Philip.
Visitation will be held from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 31, 2002, at the Rush Funeral Chapel in Kadoka.
Interment will be in the Kadoka Cemetery, Kadoka, South Dakota.
A memorial is established.
Jim (Norman E.) French
RAPID CITY - Jim (Norman E.) French, 70, of Rapid City, passed away with family by his side on January 28, 2002, at VA Hospital, Fort Meade, Sturgis, SD.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m., Friday, February 1, 2002 at Rimrock Evangelical Free Church at Johnson Siding, Hwy 44 west of Rapid City, with Pastor Rob Graham officiating. Burial will be at Black Hills National Cemetery at Sturgis, SD following the service with Sturgis Honor Guard present.
Visitation will be on Thursday, January 31, 2002 at Kirk Funeral Home, Rapid City, SD, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. with family present from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and for one hour prior to services at the church.
Jim French was born at Huron, SD on July 27, 1931 to William D. and Edna (Miles) French. As a young boy, Jim moved to Nebraska with his family and returned to the Cavour, SD area at age 12. He attended school at Cavour. Jim entered the Marine Corps in February of 1952 and was discharged in March of 1954. Jim married Velma Freese on October 30, 1952 at Virgil, SD. He farmed and trucked livestock and grain in the Cavour area for most of his life. He was nominated for "Outstanding Young Farmer" in the Huron, SD area and received awards from the South Dakota Livestock Trucking Association for the safe hauling of livestock. Jim did a lot of custom farm work, including custom combining in the South. Jim truly enjoyed calving and raising cattle. He could be found in the area sale barns on most sale days. Early in his farming career, Jim served on the Cavour Elevator Board. He was a member of the American Legion at Huron and the South Dakota Trucking Association.
Jim married Patty Whites in March 1993. In May of 1997, Jim and Patty moved to Rapid City, SD. Jim helped Steve at Mendel's Masonry at various times after the move. At the time of his death, Jim was employed at East-West Motor Express in Black Hawk, SD.
Jim is survived by his wife, Patty of Rapid City; one daughter, Sandra (Steve) Mendel of Rapid City, SD; one son, Gary (Deb) French of Cavour, SD; eight grandchildren, Stephana (Ron) Logue, Jay, Mark, Kody, and Britni Mendel; Melissa, Doug, and Dustin French; and two great-grandchildren, Hunter and Harmony Logue. He is also survived by one brother, Marvin French, Cavour, SD and three sisters, Betty (Ed) LaBlanc, Marshall, Michigan; Donna (Maynard) Wieting, Watertown, SD; and Carol (Rock) Breeden, Norman, OK and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Buell and Robert.
Jean K. Flynn
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Jean K. Flynn, of 3118 W. Folsom Street, Eau Claire, Wis., passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 26, 2002, at her home after a courageous battle with cancer.
She was born on February 26, 1922, in Claremont, Minn., to Archie and Mabel Bell. She graduated in 1940 from Dodge Center High School in Dodge Center, Minn., and married Robert H. Flynn on December 21, 1943, in Owatonna, Minn. They then lived in Menomonie, Wis., and Austin, Minn., until moving to Eau Claire in 1960. Jean worked as the cook of Sherman School for many years, and as a member of Christ Church Cathedral, was very active in Altar Guild and enjoyed participating in numerous youth activities with her grandchildren. She also was a member of Lady Elks Eau Claire and VFW Auxiliary 7232 in Eau Claire. She will always be remembered for her love of animals, especially horses and her beloved Yorkies, and for her beautifully crocheted afghans she made and gave away so lovingly to friends and family. The time she spent in her role as Grandma will be cherished. There were always home-baked goodies in her kitchen and lots of love for the grandkids.
She is survived by her husband, Robert; daughter Helen Pechous (Ray) of Black Hawk, S.D.; son Michael of Eau Claire; son Scott (Sandy) of Hayward, Wis.; daughter Debbie Christianson (Marc) of Eau Claire; grandchildren Debbie Richmond (Bob), Casey Shepperson and Cody Shepperson, all of Black Hawk, S.D., Ben Christianson of Eau Claire, and Caitlin and Mackenzie Flynn of Hayward; great-grandchildren Jason Heron and Destiny and Phillip Routh of Black Hawk, S.D.; and great-great-grandchildren Paige and Raven Routh of Black Hawk, S.D. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Kathryn; her parents; and two sisters, Eileen Bell and LaVonne Manolis.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 11 a.m. at Christ Church Cathedral with the Very Rev. Scott Kirby officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church on Saturday.
The family suggests memorials may be directed to the Altar Guild of Christ Church Cathedral, Eau Claire.
Stanley Madison
RAPID CITY - Stanley Madison, 76, Rapid City, died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2002, at his ranch home on Nemo Road.
He was born Sept. 24, 1925, in Rapid City to Russ and Ada (Faulk) Madison, the youngest of eight children.
He attended grade school at the Red Brick School in Rapid City, and high school in Spearfish. In June of 1944 he entered the service, serving with the 317th Regiment with the 80th Division in the European Theater during World War II.
On Feb. 7, 1949, he married Marilynn Hayes. They ranched for several years on the Cheyenne River at Wasta. In 1956 they returned to the Madison ranch, where they have since made their home.
He loved his family and friends, was proud of his Western heritage and enjoyed his collection of Western memorabilia. He enjoyed hunting and working with horses. 1965, and for the next 20 summers, was the beginning of a large extended family of kids whom he employed as trail guides in Custer State Park.
He was a member of the American Legion, the Moose Lodge, and Stock Growers Association and in 1997 he received the True Grit award from the Western S.D. Buckaroos. During the 2000 Black Hills Stock Show he was awarded the Tom Didier Pioneer Award.
He is survived by his wife Marilynn, two sons, Michael and Monte, his wife Rita and one daughter Mavis Madison, two grandsons, Seth and Tanner White, five granddaughters, Libby, Emily and Kaley Madison, Andrea and her husband Aaron, Bryana and her husband Phillip Night and one great-granddaughter, all of Rapid City, and many special nieces and nephews.
His parents, five brothers and two sisters, Helen Madison and Sibyl Lamb, preceded him in death.
Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at Behrens Mortuary, with the Rev. Charlie Hunt officiating. Interment will be at Black Hills National Cemetery. A memorial has been established.
Ethel Ernestine Witt
KYLE - Ethel Ernestine Witt, 82, Kyle, died Monday, Jan. 28, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Survivors include her husband, Wilbur Witt, Kyle; five daughters, Thelma Janis, Porcupine, and Loretta Bull Bear, June Rosales, Juanita Witt and Wilma Witt, all of Kyle; 23 grandchildren; 44 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
A two-night wake will begin at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Hall in Kyle.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at Our Lady of Sorrows, with the Rev. Cordelia Red Owl and Lay Reader Archie Hopkins officiating.
Burial will be at Mediator Episcopal Cemetery in Kyle.
Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.
Frank Rothleutner
PRINGLE - Frank Rothleutner, Pringle, died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2002, at his home.
Arrangements are pending with Rooks-McColley Funeral Chapel of Custer.
Viola G. Bondurant
HOT SPRINGS — Viola G. Bondurant, 81, of Hot Springs, died January 26, 2002, at Castle Manor Nursing Home in Hot Springs.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday, January 31, 2002, at Rooks-McColley Funeral Chapel in Hot Springs, with Rev. David Anderson officiating.
Burial will be at the Buffalo Gap Cemetery.
Viola was born May 31, 1920, in Oelrichs, S.D., to Leon and Madge (Morgareidge) Williams. Viola was married to Charles Bondurant on February 19, 1939.
She was a ranch cook for a good portion of her life. She was a member of the Riverside Grange, the T&E Club and the B.G. UMW.
Survivors include her daughter, Marian Trew of Buffalo Gap; one granddaughter, Mary Alice and her husband Kelly Kritenbrink of Buffalo Gap; one great-granddaughter, Ashlee Lynn; three sisters, Ila White of Buffalo Gap, Frances Haskell of Hot Springs and Janis Schnose of Buffalo Gap; and three sisters-in-law, Anna Bondurant of Denver, Helen Brandt of Hot Springs and Hazel Krutsch of Rapid City.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband Charles.
A memorial has been established in Viola's memory to benefit the Custer County 4-H Scholarship Fund.
Arrangements have been placed in the care of Rooks-McColley Funeral Chapel in Hot Springs.
Blanche Silverine Houska
PUKWANA — Blanche Silverine Houska, 79, Pukwana, died Saturday, Jan. 26, 2002, at her home.
Survivors include four sons, John Houska, Rapid City, Richard Houska, Pukwana, Mike Houska, Bloomfield, Neb., and Edward Houska, Chamberlain; one brother, O.A. Turgeon, Chamberlain; five sisters, Georgianna VandeVoort, Hector, Minn., Lorene Leeney, Schnecksville, Pa., Mary Ann Acton, Cape Cod, Fla., Priscilla St. Onge, Miami, and Avis Lieferman, Chamberlain; 12 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Her husband, Ivan Houska, preceded her in death.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, with the family present from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Wevik Funeral Home in Chamberlain.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at Zion Lutheran Church in Chamberlain, with the Rev. David Putz officiating.
Burial will be at Riverview Cemetery in Chamberlain.
Burton Alfred Lackey
BLACK HAWK — Burton Alfred Lackey, 65, of Black Hawk, S.D., died January 26, 2002, at the VA Hospital, Fort Meade, Sturgis, S.D.
He was born on October 13, 1936, in Miller, S.D., to Jack and Ruth Lackey. He married Linda Carol Bruesch June 15, 1960. He was preceded in death by his wife Linda, who passed away on May 9, 2001.
He is survived by his mother, Ruth Lackey of Cynthiana, Ky.; daughter Cynthia Stead and husband Christopher of Lake Isabella, Calif.; son Gary M. Lackey of Hitterdal, Minn.; son Galey Lackey and wife Amber of Black Hawk, S.D.; daughter Benita K. Lackey of Fargo, N.D.; grandsons Christopher, Brandon, Matthew, Ryan, Isaiah and Aaron Stead of Lake Isabella, Calif.; sister Jackie Browning and husband Billy of Cynthiana, Ky.; brother Norman Lackey and wife Donna of Aurora, Colo.; brother Richard Lackey and wife Betty of Black Hawk, S.D.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Burton served in the Navy for 21 years. He retired May 8, 1975, with the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer. He was a past President and an active member of the TREA Club and the FRA in Rapid City. He was an active member and Knight of Columbus in Our Lady of the Black Hills Catholic Church. Burton enjoyed fellowship with members of the retired associations, fishing and camping with family and friends.
Funeral services will be at Our Lady of the Black Hills Catholic Church on Thursday, January 31, at 1 p.m., with burial at the Black Hills National Cemetery at 2:30 p.m. A lunch will be held before the service from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Our Lady of the Black Hills Catholic Church, where a memorial has also been established.
Charles M. Lockwood
OMAHA, Neb. — Charles M. Lockwood, 78, Omaha, died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2002.
Survivors include one daughter, Kathleen Bischoff, Bellevue; two sons, William Lockwood, Denver, and Richard Lockwood, Salt Lake City; six grandchildren; and one sister, Helen Davenport, Sioux City, Iowa.
His wife, Mary Lockwood, preceded him in death.
Services already have been held.
Inurnment will be at Cathedral of St. Mark Episcopal Church in Salt Lake City.
Westlawn-Hillcrest Funeral Home of Omaha is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials may be made to Thanksgiving! Lutheran Church, Bellevue, or American Lung Association.
Rev. Norval Gerhard Hegland
LAKESIDE, Mont. — After a life of service for Our Lord, Norval Gerhard Hegland died January 12, 2002, at home in Lakeside, Montana, only four months after the death of his wife, Margaret. He was born on February 2, 1915, in a sod hut near Plentywood, Montana, where his father William and mother Hilda homesteaded. Norval was the oldest son, the second child in a family of five.
Norval earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and then attended Luther Seminary in St. Paul. Ordained as a Lutheran clergyman in Plentywood, Montana, on June 15, 1941, he subsequently soloed as a pilot at Jordan, Montana, on January 14, 1946. With these attainments, he was prepared for his life work as a flying pastor. On March 14, 1942, Norval married Margaret Naeseth, daughter of Rev. C. G. Naeseth and his wife Emma. As Margaret was a musically able and people-oriented nurse, the marriage performed by Margaret's father in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin created a gifted and skilled missionary team.
The couple moved to Moorhead, Minn., where Norval served as Professor of Religion and Dean of Men at Concordia College, and then the Heglands served in Miles City, Mont. After World War II, Norval served a nine-church flying parish known as the Lemmon Circuit Air Parish, based in Lemmon, S.D., and then Newell. From 1951-60, Norval served as missionary and flying pastor while Superintendent of the Lutheran Eskimo Mission on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska. As his most significant accomplishment, he looked back on establishing Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Nome, Alaska. Before that, the Eskimoes who migrated to Nome from outlying native villages were "spiritual orphans."
Norval returned with his family to the lower 48 states to serve parishes in Philip and Parker, South Dakota. Later, Norval and Margaret served as co-administrators of the Good Samaritan Nursing Homes in Hermiston, Oregon, and St. Francis, Kansas. Norval served his last parish in Wibaux, Montana, before he and Margaret retired to Hamilton and later to Lakeside, Mont.
Norval was a skilled mechanic and pilot. During the Depression, when he traveled from Plentywood to Concordia College, he drove in a car he constructed from a junkyard Model A Ford obtained in barter for a bicycle. During his time in Alaska he created a plumbing system in spite of permafrost and freezing winter temperatures. He was his own airplane mechanic, nursing the airplane to life on winter mornings with temperatures below -40.
In a flying career that spanned six decades, Norval flew over 620,000 miles. An extremely conscientious and safe pilot, he flew in the most difficult weather and challenging terrain in Alaska. During his flying career, he had no accidents but made several precautionary landings. Once he had to walk over 30 miles of Alaska tundra and river bottom and return to get the airplane later.
Norval and Margaret raised three children: Paul, who lives in Arlington, Va.; Mary, who lives in San Jose, Calif.; and Ruth, also of Arlington.
Norval Hegland was preceded in death by his wife Margaret, his granddaughter Helen Margarethe Hegland, and his brother, Leonard. He is survived by his children: Paul Hegland and his wife Kristen Puckett, Mary Hegland and Ruth Hegland; grandchildren Matthew Puckett, Elizabeth and Ben Hegland, Karima Hooglund and Allen Danze; great-granddaughter, Nakeysa; and his siblings Helen Simundson, Alma Jakobson, Bill Hegland and his wife Faye, and Virginia Hegland, wife of the late Leonard Hegland.
All of his life, Rev. Hegland tried to be a devoted servant of God, to follow Christ's example, and to be present for relatives, friends, and congregation members in their times of need. Norval will be remembered for his faithful service for the Lutheran Church in some of its remotest outposts; his love of God, family, friends, Alaska, and nature; and his passion for flying.
Memorial gifts may be sent to Our Savior's Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 965, Nome, Alaska 99762. Pastor Hegland's daughter is managing his papers and affairs. She will be residing at his home in Lakeside for about two months and then may be reached at this address: Mary Elaine Hegland, 302 S. 20th Street, San Jose, CA 95116.
