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Teri M. Charnholm
WALL - Teri M. Charnholm (Swem), 54, of Wall, South Dakota, passed away July 13, 2002. Teri was born on May 17, 1948, in Box Elder, South Dakota. She attended Rapid City High School. During her adult life she lived in California and Arizona before moving back home to South Dakota in 1993. She worked for many years in the medical insurance field and was a member of the Paradise Valley Junior Women's Club in Arizona. She is survived by her mother, Flo Swem of Rapid City; her three children, Cindy Young of Scottsdale, AZ, Gerard Charnholm of Pinetop, AZ, Scott Charnholm of Mesa, AZ; her two sisters Phylis Walliser of Scottsdale, AZ, Linda Gimbel of Rapid Valley, SD; and three grandchildren, Zachary, Jake and Kyleigh. Teri spent the last years of her life with a special friend, Jerry Willuweit of Wall, SD. A memorial will be held at the Community Center in Wall, SD, Tuesday, August 6th, at 5 p.m.
Arrangements are with the Osheim-Catron Funeral Home.
Howard Earl Flaigg
HOOVER - Howard Earl Flaigg, 81, Hoover, died Friday, July 26, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Survivors include one brother, Fred Flaigg, Hoover, and two sisters, Mae Stroschein, Newell, and Rose Sundstrom, Grand Junction, Colo.
He served in the U.S. Army.
Visitation will be from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, at Kinkade Funeral Chapel in Sturgis.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at the funeral chapel, with the Rev. Bob Waite officiating.
Burial with military honors will follow at Black Hills National cemetery near Sturgis.
A memorial has been established to Castle Rock Volunteer Fire Department.
Esther F. Turgeon
RAPID CITY - Esther F. Turgeon, 83, Rapid City, died Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at a Rapid City nursing home.
Survivors include two brothers, William Jones, Lakewood, Colo., and Melvin Jones, Pioneer, Calif.; three sisters, Viola Lundgren, Turlock, Calif., Mable Milam, Canon City, Colo., and Alice McArthur, Salinas, Calif.; and one stepdaughter, Penny Turgeon Daughtey, Deerfield, Fla.
Arrangements are pending with Osheim-Catron Funeral Home of Rapid City.
Leota A. 'Lee' Larson
DEADWOOD - Leota A. "Lee" Larson, 92, Deadwood, SD, died Sunday, July 28, 2002, at her home on Strawberry Hill.
Leota Adell Ramsay was born December 29, 1909, in Mitchell County, Kansas, to David M. and Florence Inez (Coburn) Ramsay. She grew up there and attended District #74 country school and Beloit High School at Beloit, KS, graduating in May 1928. As a young lady she worked at various jobs, a restaurant cook, waitress, in private homes and was a Harvey girl at Newborn, KS. She attended the Hopewell United Presbyterian Church, starting at a young age, joining the church at age 12. She called this her home church until April 1983, when she started attending the Nemo Community Church. She was the chairperson of the planning committee for the 75th Anniversary of the Nemo Community Church in 1996.
Lee was married
to Harry L. Hollingworth on October 31, 1942, at Mankato, KS, while she was working for Maxon Construction, which built the Navy Depot at Hastings, NE. In April 1944 the couple moved to Edgemont, SD, where she worked for 6 years as the City Auditor of Edgemont. Harry died in January of 1967 and Lee moved to Boulder Canyon in Nov. 1967. Lee then worked at Fort Meade VA Hospital in nursing service and medical administration.
Lee was married
to Richard R. Hollingworth at Johnson Siding, SD, on June 16, 1974. The couple moved to Strawberry Hill in June 1974. Richard died March 28, 1977, and Lee remained on the hill. She married
Emmett C. Larson on May 26, 1979, and they lived on Strawberry Hill. She retired from the VA Hospital on November 12, 1982.
Lee remained busy by working for Marta Enterprise from January 1983 to July 1991, and helping Emmett with the hay. She also worked for Bill Townsend Company from March 1956 until August 1982 at Newcastle and Osage, WY. Emmett died August 18, 2000. Lee has continued to make her home on Strawberry Hill.
Lee enjoyed her computer, cooking, knitting, crocheting, sewing, canning and making jelly as long as she was able. Lee suffered maculate degenerate retina and lost her sight in 1995.
Lee is survived by a stepson, Michael Larson and his wife Barbara of Deadwood, SD; a stepdaughter, Pam C. Marta and her husband John of Spearfish, SD; grandchildren and their spouses, Mark and Julie Larson of Spearfish, SD, Dan and Belinda Larson and Shawn and Christina Marta, all of Spearfish, SD, Kellie and Brian Peotter of Portland, OR, and Kacie, Kassidy Lee and MacKenzie Marta, all of Spearfish, SD; her great-grandchildren, Savanah Larson, Amber Larson, Rebekah Larson and Luke Larson and John Dominick; three nephews and spouses, Edwin and Janet Dunigan, MacGregor, TX, Maurice and Karen Dunigan, Sterling Park, VA, and Dan and Margaret Dunigan, Gladstone, MO; and two nieces, Marvalee and Kent Hawkins, Clinton, MO, and Bobbie and Robert McCall, Tulsa, OK.
Lee was preceded in death by three husbands; brother, Sydney; and sisters, Francis and Louise.
Visitation will be at the Carlsen and Aldinger Funeral Home in Spearfish on Wednesday, July 31, 2002, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon and at the church for one hour prior to the service.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, August 1, 2002, at the Nemo Community Church in Nemo, with Pastor Dwayne Snell officiating. Burial will follow in the Nemo cemetery.
The Carlsen and Aldinger Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.
Memorials may be given to the Nemo Community Church.
Guy E. Van Nice
RAPID CITY - Guy E. Van Nice, 93, Rapid City, died at a Rapid City nursing home Sunday, July 28, 2002.
He was born December 27, 1908, in Pierre, SD, and raised on a homestead in central Hughes County. Guy was the eldest of five children. His father died when he was 11, leaving Guy's mother, a former schoolteacher, to raise five children, the youngest less than 2. Although their farm was small and not very productive, they scratched out a living milking cows, and raising hogs and chickens. To supplement their income, his mother played the piano and Guy played the fiddle at neighborhood dances. His mother taught all five children to read and write before they began school.
The Depression was looming, so in 1929 the family sold the farm and moved to Pierre. For a year or so, Guy worked for a company that hauled materials for builders, household goods, and freight of all kinds. When he got laid off there, he worked for the city at various jobs. He dreamed of joining the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), but Pierre's quota was filled. In July 1933, when he learned of an opening in the Black Hills unit of the CCC, he hopped a freight to Rapid City to join. By 1935 he was made a supervisor. He was a bachelor until, in early 1937, he married
Elnora Ebeling. For the next few years they lived in Custer State Park, near his work.
By 1941 he left his job with the CCC, and for a short time worked for the South Dakota Fish and Game Department. In the spring of 1942 he was hired by the US Army Corps of Engineers to work at the new air base near Rapid City, which would become Ellsworth AFB. In July 1942 he was promoted and relocated to Pringle, where the government was building a huge Army Ordnance Depot. He wasn't satisfied working behind a desk, so he resigned that job and headed west with his family and a mobile home. At Provo, UT, he found a construction job, and they resided there until the fall of 1943.
In late 1943, the family returned to Rapid City, and Guy went to work for his old CCC supervisor, Curly Garland, owner of Garland Construction Co. The experience in the CCCs and the construction business prepared him well for going into business for himself, so in 1948 Guy started his own construction company. In the years that followed he built homes and more than 50 commercial buildings, including the educational wing of the First Presbyterian Church. He also built and operated Marine Life Aquarium, which he later sold to his partners, and entered the mobile-home business. After his wife Elnora's death in 1970, he continued to live and work in Rapid City, and in 1971 married
Helen Nimmo. He retired from business in 1976 to concentrate on travel, hobbies and volunteer work.
While at Marine Life, Guy served on the Board of Directors of the Black Hills and Badlands Association. He later gave many years of service to the Canyon Lake Senior Citizens Center, serving as a member of the Board of Directors, and working at and directing construction projects, including the Viking Hall stage. He also volunteered as a "Grandpa" at local hospitals.
Guy was an avid photographer who passed his love of the Black Hills to his children. During his travels he visited many Van Nice and Van Nuys gravesites, and wrote two books on his family genealogy. He learned to play the electric organ when he was in his 80's and used his e-mail terminal to keep in touch with his children and other relatives. He once got lost in Switzerland when the bus left without him, and had many other adventures, traveling not only in the United States, but all over the world.
Guy is survived by his wife, Helen; one brother, Alfred (Hap) Van Nice of Santa Maria, CA; one sister, Jessie Cowan of Escondido, CA; a cousin, Kelvin Van Nuys of Rapid City; his four children: Beverly Ham of Eden Prairie, MN, Carol Dobbs of Farmington, CT, Nancy Holtet of Alexandria, VA, and Randy Van Nice of North Canton, OH; nine grandchildren; and eleven great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church, with Rev. Steve Rhodes officiating.
Interment will be at the Pine Lawn Memorial Park cemetery. A memorial has been established.
Services are under the direction of the Osheim-Catron Funeral Home.
Pauline R. Hermanson
RAPID CITY - Pauline R. Hermanson died Monday, July 29, at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Pauline was born in Franklin County, AR, on March 5, 1924. She grew up on a farm owned by her parents, Montie and Ossie Vest. She attended high school in Charleston, AR, and later studied at the University of Arkansas.
Pauline began her career in Portland, Oregon, working as a shift supervisor for Boeing during World War II. After the war, she moved to Rapid City, briefly working for the phone company before moving to Dallas, TX. Pauline was very dedicated to her work in Dallas, serving as the controller for a transportation company for over 17 years.
In 1984, Pauline married
her longtime friend, Melvin Hermanson. They resided in both Rapid City and Sun City, AZ. Pauline was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister and will be missed by her many friends and family. She enjoyed fishing, bridge and most of all spending time with her family. She celebrated each moment of her life with joy, laughter, and optimism. Pauline is survived by her husband Melvin, her stepsons Paul and Gary Hermanson, her brother RJ and his wife Billie, and her seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her parents and her stepsons Glenn R. and Edwin M. Hermanson.
Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2002, at the Osheim-Catron Funeral Home.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 402 Kansas City St., with Rev. Don Brendtro, Rev. Al Jacobson and Rev. Mike Hermanson officiating.
Interment will be at the Mountain View cemetery. A memorial has been established.
A. Wayne Vig
PIEDMONT - A. Wayne Vig, 80, Piedmont, passed away Monday, July 29, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Visitation will be Thursday from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. at Kinkade Funeral Chapel and Friday one hour prior to the services at Union Center.
Funeral services will be Friday, August 2, 2002, at 10 a.m. at the Central Meade County Community Center in Union Center, with Rev. Harold Delbridge officiating. Burial will be at the Opal cemetery at 1:30 p.m.
Wayne was born July 22, 1922, at Opal, SD, to Andrew L. and Malina G. (Cragwick) Vig. He grew up in the Opal area and attended school in Sturgis. He graduated from Sturgis High School in 1940. Wayne married
Carole R. Weiss on May 8, 1948, at Rapid City. She passed away in 1980. Wayne married
Hope Weiss on November 7, 1985, at Laurel, MT. Wayne ranched at Opal most of his life. He started a second career in Real Estate with his wife, Hope, owning and operating a mobile home park in Box Elder. They moved their primary residence to Piedmont three years ago.
He served on the Howell School Board and was an active member of the North American Limousin Foundation. Wayne was active in the organization of the Opal Community Center in 1968.
Survivors include his wife, Hope Vig, Piedmont; four sons, Barry Vig and his wife, Cheryl, Opal, Martin Vig, Opal, Andrew Vig and his wife, Jacquee, Rapid City, and Morris Vig, Box Elder; two daughters, Mona Reichert and her husband, Gene, Billings, MT, and Lisa Loveridge, Box Elder; four stepchildren, Myron Weiss and his wife, Carol, Fairpoint, SD, Charles Weiss, Rapid City, Sharon Brosmire, Piedmont, and Karen Bryan and her husband, Roland, Spearfish; 36 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
His parents; his first wife, Carole; two daughters, Susan Vig and Lorane Parker; three brothers, Art, Ken, and Cecil; and two sisters, Marie Ingalls and Cleone Austin preceded him in death.
A memorial has been established to the Opal Community cemetery.
Bonnie Gene Wilkins Peller
SEATTLE - Funeral services were held for Bonnie Gene Peller June 29, 2002 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, at St. Bernard's Catholic Church, with Father Melvin Bennett officiating.
Mrs. Peller passed away at Valley Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, on Sunday, June 23, after a very short illness.
Bonnie was the daughter of B. Leon Wilkins and Alyce Strong Wilkins. She was born August 28, 1928, in Provo, Utah. Moved to Lead, SD at age 3. Graduated from Lead High School class of 1946 and attended South Dakota State University.
She is survived by her husband, William Nicholas Peller. They were married
in September 1948 in Lead. A son, Michael Leon Peller of Destin, Florida. A daughter, Kathleen Jensen, Indianapolis, Indiana. 4 grandchildren and one great-grandson, a sister, JoAnn Wilkins Deeble of Custer County, SD, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Henry G. Machart
CUSTER - Henry G. Machart, 70, Custer, died Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at his home.
Survivors include his wife, Beverly Machart, Custer; one son, Henry Machart Jr., Yakima, Wash.; two stepsons, Richard Walsh, Keystone, and David Walsh, Custer; one stepdaughter, Roberta Snell, Box Elder; one brother; three sisters; 10 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
He served in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy.
Services will be at a later date in Minnesota.
Osheim-Catron Funeral Home of Rapid City is in charge of arrangements.
Henry G. Machart
CUSTER - Henry G. Machart, 70, Custer, died Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at his home.
Survivors include his wife, Beverly Machart, Custer; one son, Henry Machart Jr., Yakima, Wash.; two stepsons, Richard Walsh, Keystone, and David Walsh, Custer; one stepdaughter, Roberta Snell, Box Elder; one brother; three sisters; 10 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
He served in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy.
Services will be at a later date in Minnesota.
Osheim-Catron Funeral Home of Rapid City is in charge of arrangements.
Martha Reiter
CUSTER - Martha Reiter, 80, rural Custer, died Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at her home.
Survivors include her husband, Richard Reiter, Custer; two sons, Richard Reiter, Evansville, Ind., and Greg Reiter, Newark, Del.; two daughters, Karen Mangus, Virginia Beach, Va., and Joanne Bornong, Sheridan, Wyo.; one brother, Carl Sasse, Walker, Minn.; one sister, Elaine Burleigh, Gordon, Neb.; and six grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending with McColley's Chapels of the Hills in Custer.
Herman C. Laue
CUSTER - Herman C. Laue, 70, Custer, died Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Cloud, Minn.
Survivors include one brother, Richard Laue, Custer.
Arrangements are pending with McColley's Chapels of the Hills in Custer.
