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Corrine Turney
RAPID CITY — Corrine Turney, 75, Rapid City, died Sunday, July 21, 2002, at her home.
Survivors include her daughter, Judy Shelton, Rapid City; two brothers, Larry Lane, Lodi, Wis., and Dale Lane, Barron, Wis.; three sisters, Leatrice Norwick, Pecatonica, Ill., Betty Peterson, Two Rivers, Wis., and Maxine Tatroe, Phillips, Wis.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending with Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City and Burnham-Ours Funeral Home in Chetek, Wis.
Gary Byron
BOX ELDER — Gary Byron, 42, Box Elder, died Sunday, July 21, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Bonnie; two daughters, Jacklynn Azure and Jennifer, both of Box Elder; his parents, Alfred and Edith Byron, Spring Lake Park, Minn.; two sisters, Kathline Christopherson, Andover, Minn.; Samantha Finkelson, Little Canada, Minn.; and three brothers, Michael Byron, Texas, Timothy Byron, Australia, and Jeffrey Byron, Circle Pines, Minn.
Arrangements are pending with Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City.
Alan Amiotte
INTERIOR — Alan Amiotte, 58, Interior, died Sunday, July 21, 2002, at his home.
Survivors include his wife, Asta Amiotte, Interior; three sons, Clint Amiotte and Tucker Amiotte, both of Interior, and Kyle Amiotte, Black Hawk; one daughter, Dondee Krolikowski, Interior; one brother, Norman Amiotte, Interior; one sister, Bonnie Renner, Spearfish; and five grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending with Rush Funeral Home in Philip.
Adam A. Vetter
HETTINGER, N.D. - Adam A. Vetter, 89, Hettinger and formerly of Bison, S.D., died Saturday, July 20, 2002, at Hillcrest Care Center in Hettinger.
Survivors include one son, Dean Vetter, Sturgis, S.D.; two daughters, Joyce Ryder, Kingman, Kan., and Janet Smith, Cortez, Colo.; 15 grandchildren; 45 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Steve Vetter and Frank Vetter, both of Bison; and two sisters, Tracy Buckmeier, Texas, and Liz Loughlin, Sturgis.
Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. today, with a 9:45 a.m. rosary service, at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Bison.
Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. today at the church, with the Rev. Brian Fawcett and the Rev. Bill Dustman officiating.
Burial will be at Bison cemetery.
Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home of Lemmon, S.D., is in charge of arrangements.
Stella Goeken
UTICA - Stella Goeken, 74, Utica, died Saturday, July 13, 2002, at Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Neb., from injuries suffered in an automobile accident.
Survivors include her husband, John Goeken, Utica; one son, John M. Goeken, Utica; four daughters, Peggy Pluimer, Minneapolis, Marge Herbold, Sioux City, Iowa, Judy Vinatieri, Rapid City, and Joan Schaefer, Fordyce, Neb.; 23 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Services were July 17 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Yankton. Burial was at Sacred Heart cemetery.
Kostel Funeral Home of Yankton was in charge of arrangements.
Benjamin Clifford Meeker
STURGIS - Benjamin Clifford Meeker, 81, Sturgis, died Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at Sturgis Community Health Care Center.
Survivors include two sons, Allan Meeker and Benjamin Meeker; four daughters, Janice Cox, Dorothy Laywell, Barbara Kenny and Marjorie Roth; four brothers, Virgil, James, Charles and Russell; and two sisters, Loretta Colton, Sturgis, and Delsey Richel.
He served in the U.S. Army from February 1943 to Oct. 6, 1946.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today and from noon until service time Thursday, July 25, at Kinkade Funeral Chapel in Sturgis. Friends and family may gather at the funeral chapel before leaving for the cemetery.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Black Hills National cemetery near Sturgis, with the Rev. Roger Crowhurst officiating.
Lorene Stewart
FAITH - Funeral services for Lorene Stewart, 94, longtime Faith resident and businesswoman, will be Friday, July 26 at 11 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Faith. Rev. Muriel Oates will officiate and interment will be in the Faith cemetery. A memorial has been established to the church. Mrs. Stewart passed away at Belle Fourche Care Center on Sunday, July 21.
Mrs. Stewart graduated in 1926 from Faith High School and was active in her church and community for over 85 years. She sang in the church choir until she was 90 years of age, loved playing piano. She worked with her husband in Stewart's Hardware for 34 years.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Betty Stewart of Las Vegas, NV; grandchildren, Scott and Melanie Stewart, Vandenberg AFB, CA, Sharla and Ron Fox, Rapid City; great-grandchildren, Amanda and Erin Fox, Brandon, Brianna and Bethany Stewart; and one niece, Joyce Hockmuth, Sun Prairie, WI.
Visitation will be Thursday, July 26, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Faith Area Memorial Chapel, Faith, and one hour prior to the service at the church.
Marcella B. Anderson
SHADEHILL - Marcella B. Anderson, 84, Shadehill, died Monday, July 22, in Bowman, N.D.
Survivors include two sisters-in-law, Maxine Strik, Anchorage, Alaska, and Lorraine Strid, South Hettinger, N.D.
A family service will be at 7 p.m. today at Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at the funeral home, and from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at Rosebud Lutheran Church near Shadehill.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Thursday at the church, with the Rev. Harold Watrous and Lay Pastor Charlotte Kvale officiating.
Burial will be at Rosebud Lutheran cemetery.
A memorial has been established to Rosebud Lutheran Church.
Helene Meyer
PIEDMONT - Helene Emma Meyer, 85, of Piedmont, died Sunday, July 21, 2002, at her home.
Helene was born on October 10, 1916, in Kadoka, SD, to Casper and Louise Furubotten. She grew up and attended school in Kadoka. She moved to the Black Hills, where she met and married
Arch Meyer in Deadwood, SD, on August 22, 1948. They were members of Grace Lutheran Church in Deadwood for more than 50 years. Helene was very active in the church and especially enjoyed her many years of teaching Sunday School and Vacation Bible School.
Helene and Arch lived in Deadwood until 1991, when they moved to Piedmont to live with their daughter Elaine and husband Larry. Arch died in 1995, and Helene continued to live in Piedmont. For the last seven years, she has been a member of Piedmont Valley Lutheran Church. Helene's life has been very difficult for several years because of illness and dialysis treatments. Her great-grandchildren provided comfort and a special joy for her during those difficult times. She will be deeply missed and forever loved.
Helene is survived by three daughters, Connie Sargent of Cheyenne, WY, Elaine and husband Larry Ebbert of Piedmont, SD, and Arlet Trewhella, Deadwood, SD; one son, Harold and wife Shirley Meyer of Chadron, NE; 6 grandchildren, Kirk Sargent of Cheyenne, WY, Tracy Sargent of Cheyenne, WY, Ben Herrera of Seattle, WA, Michelle Chase and husband Ray of Gillette, WY, Misty Trewhella of Deadwood and Randy Trewhella of Florida; 3 great-grandchildren, Ashton and Taylor Chase of Gillette, WY, and Hailey Trewhella of Deadwood; numerous nieces and nephews; and special friends Sheila and Nicole DeGryse of Piedmont.
Helene was preceded in death by her husband Arch of 46 years, her parents, 3 brothers and 1 sister, one granddaughter, and one niece.
Visitation will be held one hour before services on Friday, July 26, 2002, at Piedmont Valley Lutheran Church. Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. at the church. Pastor Tim Stadem will officiate. Burial will follow at Black Hills National cemetery in Sturgis. A luncheon will follow at the church.
Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City is in charge of arrangements. A memorial has been established.
Mary Alice 'Maggie' Goodwin
8/12/24 - 7/16/02
LOUISVILLE, Colo. - Former Rapid City resident, Mary Alice Myers Goodwin, 77, died on July 16th in Louisville, CO of lung cancer. She is survived by her children, Lynn Goodwin of Bolinas, CA, Leslie Goodwin of Longmont, CO, Jim Goodwin of Colorado Springs, CO and Laurie Gosney, Bayfield, CO and grandchildren Christopher and Jason, 2 nieces and 2 nephews and longtime companion Al Ebel.
She married
Gale Goodwin in Rapid City in 1945. They moved to Boulder, CO in 1962 and divorced in 1977. Mary Alice worked at the O.A. Vik studio as a girl and learned studio photography and fine arts. She later studied fine arts at Colorado College and at San Miguel Allende, GTO Mexico. She painted seriously throughout her life and became widely known, winning many awards. She was published in several books and magazines including American Artist, the Best of Pastel and Portrait Inspirations. Known for her portraits, she had many commissions and taught workshops in Acapulco, Mexico. Her passion for painting never left her; she was striving to complete unfinished paintings until the last.
She fought cancer for nearly two years, keeping her trademark sense of humor throughout and died peacefully surrounded by family. She hoped to inspire every smoker she met to quit.
Ms. Goodwin chose to be cremated. There will be a Commemorative Mass on July 29th at 7 p.m. officiated by Fr. Dan Leonard at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Boulder, CO and a Memorial Service on August 10th at 4 p.m. at Crist Mortuary, 3395 Penrose Pl., Boulder, CO where mourners will be invited to speak. Contributions may be made to the Heifer Project, P.O. Box 8058, Little Rock, AR 72203-8058, Guide Dogs for the Blind 800-548-4337 (www.guidedog.org) or charity of choice.
Gary Byron
BOX ELDER - Gary Byron, 42, Box Elder, died Sunday, July 21, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Bonnie Byron, Box Elder; two daughters, Jennifer Byron and Jacklynn Azure, both of Box Elder; his parents, Alfred and Edith Byron, Spring Lake Park, Minn.; two sisters, Kathline Christopherson, Andover, Minn., and Samantha Finkelson, Little Canada, Minn.; and three brothers, Michael Byron, Texas, Timothy Byron, Australia, and Jeffrey Byron, Circle Pines, Minn.
He served in the U.S. Air Force from January 1980 to September 1983.
A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. today at Chapel of the Hills in Rapid City.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Friday, July 26, at Holcomb-Henry-Boon North Chapel in Shoreview, Minn.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday at Fort Snelling National cemetery in Minneapolis.
Kirk Funeral Home of Rapid City is in charge of arrangements.
Lois J. Gibson
RAPID CITY - Lois Juanita Gibson, 76, of Rapid City, died Sunday, July 7, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
She was born January 30, 1926, in New York City to Urla and Donald Wilson.
She graduated from James Monroe High School, New York, in 1944. She attended Hunter College and completed certification requirements as a Radiology Technologist in 1946. On Jan. 12, 1947, she married
Jeffrey Hadley in a double wedding with her sister Lorraine and Charles Dunning in St. Albans, New York. Her father, Don Wilson, was a noted orchestra leader in Harlem, so her wedding was front-page news in the Amsterdam News. In November, 1948, she gave birth to a daughter, Sandra.
In 1953, she pursued a modeling career part-time, taking classes at the Barbizon School of Modeling. Jeffrey Hadley died of heart disease. She and Sandra lived in Kingston, Jamaica, for eight years. They returned to New York in 1965; she worked as an X-ray technician at Hospital for Special Surgery until she took early retirement in 1983. She married
David Gibson, her one true love, in New York in 1978. They loved to travel together to Europe and the West Indies. He encouraged her to pursue her acting and career. During the 1980's, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and had small roles in TV soap operas on CBS, and played the principal roles in industrial films, TV commercials for the IRS and Social Security, and print ads for Dark & Lovely hair products in Ebony and Essence magazines. David died of a heart attack in 1986.
She moved to Rapid City in 1988 to be close to her grandchildren, Freddie and Angie Magnavito. She worked as an X-ray technician for Dr. Reuben Bareis and then Dr. Lee Ahrlin until 1995, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Lois served on the Rapid Transit Advisory Board in 1995, and was active in her Tenant's Association. She was an active member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, serving as a Lay Reader, and loved children in the Nursery and Vacation Bible School. She was an avid reader and loved art and music. She was always at the Public Library, and volunteered at the Journey Museum, the Pennington County Sheriff's Department, RSVP, and Black Hills Arthritis Association. She was a member of the Rapid City YMCA, AARP, and South Dakota Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities. Since she lived with the pain of Osteoarthritis since the 1970's, she was always able to greet people with a winning smile at Health Fairs and loved to share her knowledge of arthritis with others. She enjoyed making new friends at the arthritis warm-water exercise classes at the YMCA.
Survivors include her sister, Lorraine Dunning, Cathedral City, Calif.; her daughter, Sandra Magnavito, and son-in-law Dr. Fred Magnavito; and two grandchildren, Freddie Magnavito of Rapid City, and Angie Magnavito-Mora of Salt Lake City, Utah. She leaves three cousins, Noel Carrington, New York; Lloyd Hannibal, Moreno Valley, Calif.; and Rev. Belfield Hannibal, Sherman Oaks, Calif. She was preceded in death by her parents, Urla and Don.
A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church at 3435 West South Street, with The Rev. William C. Hibbert and Deacons Virginia Bird and Martha Garwood officiating.
Memorials have been established for the Black Hills Arthritis Assn. and St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Osheim-Catron Funeral Home.
Corrine Y. Turney
RAPID CITY - Corrine Y. Turney, 75, Rapid City, died Sunday, July 21, 2002, at her daughter's home in Rapid City.
Survivors include one daughter, Judy Shelton, Rapid City; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two brothers, Larry Lane, Lodi, Wis., and Dale Lane, Barron, Wis.; and three sisters, Betty Peterson, Two Rivers, Wis., Leatrice Norwick, Pecatonica, Ill., and Maxine Tatroe, Phillips, Wis.
Her husband, Cecil Turney, preceded her in death.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time Friday, July 26, at Burnham-Ours Funeral Home in Chetek, Wis.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Keith Ruehlow officiating.
Burial will be at Lake View cemetery in Chetek.
