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Ethelyn L. Nelson
RAPID CITY — Ethelyn L. Nelson, 81, of Rapid City, died Saturday, February 23, 2002, at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls.
Ethelyn was born August 23, 1920, in Huron, S.D., to Albert Maurice and Ruth Inez (Geothel) Anderson. She graduated from Huron High School in 1938 and from NW College of Commerce in Huron in 1939. Ethelyn married Carl B. Nelson in Huron on April 2, 1950. They moved to Rapid City in March of 1973 and have resided here since. Ethelyn was a member of South Maple United Methodist Church in Rapid City. She will be greatly missed by her friends and her church family.
She is survived by one son, Gary L. Nelson, his wife Brenda of Lynnwood Wash.; two daughters, Janet K. Boatman, her husband Doug and their children Susan and Amy of Kettering, Ohio, and Linda R. Wahle, her husband Ray and their children Eric and Elizabeth of Sioux Falls; one brother, Maurice V. Anderson, his wife Eleanor of Rapid City; one sister, Arlene M. Diede of Huron; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Carl B. Nelson and sister Vivian M. Ziegler.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City, with a 7 p.m. prayer service.
Services will be at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at South Maple United Methodist Church in Rapid City, with Pastor Tom Haggar officiating. Burial will follow at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis.
A memorial has been established.
Virginia Mae Yun
RAPID CITY — Funeral services for Virginia Mae Yun, age 79, of Rapid City will be Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 11 a.m., at the Church of the Nazarene in Rapid City, with Pastor Erik Bossness officiating.
Burial will be at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis.
Visitation will be Tuesday, February 26 from 3 p.m. to
7 p.m. at Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City.
Memorials may be directed to the Church of the Nazarene in Rapid City.
Virginia Yun passed away on Friday, February 22, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Virginia Mae Stoner was born June 1, 1922, at Keoka, Iowa, to parents Lyden and Gladys (Hermanstofer) Stoner. At age five, she moved with her family to the Mina, S.D., area where she grew up and graduated from Mina High School in 1939. She attended Northern State Teacher College and received her teaching certificate in 1940. She taught school for three years at Hosmer, Ipswich and Aberdeen.
On September 11, 1942, she married Clarence Hutton in Ipswich. She worked as a nurses aide for 18 years, working at Bennett-Clarkson Hospital, Rapid City Re-Hab and Clarkson Mt. View Retirement Home all in Rapid City.
In 1967, she returned to school and earned her LPN license in 1968. She then went to work as a nurse at Ft. Meade VA Medical Center in Sturgis, where she worked until her retirement in 1978.
On April 2, 1977, she married Edward Yun in Sturgis. The couple moved to Alamo, Texas, where they lived for a couple years before moving back to the Spearfish area. In 1996, she moved to Rapid City.
Virginia enjoyed fishing, camping, travelling, sports and sewing.
She was a member of the Church of the Nazarene and participated in the Senior Citizens Centers
She is survived by her sons: Paul and Aileen Hutton of Elko, Nev., LeRoy and Joan Hutton of Rapid City, Kenneth and Glenda Hutton of Rapid City; a daughter, Dianna Keester of Rapid City; brothers, Paul Stoner of Marshalltown, Iowa, Daryl Stoner of Ipswich, S.D., Robert Stoner of Bismarck, N.D.; sisters, Betty McCandless of Brooksville, Fla., Mary Roberts of Aberdeen, S.D.; eight grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are with the Carlsen & Aldinger Funeral Home in Sturgis.
Marjorie Maltby
RAPID CITY — Marjorie Maltby, 82, Rapid City, died in Rapid City Friday, Feb. 22, 2002.
She was born Nov. 30, 1913, at Clark, S.D., the daughter of Burton D. and Nell (Kneen) Bascomb. She graduated from high school at Clark in 1932 and later attended Nettleton Commercial College in Sioux Falls.
She married Joseph A. Maltby at Redfield, S.D., on Dec. 24, 1935. He was killed in action in World War II at Coblenz, Germany on May 12, 1944.
Marjorie was employed by a number of government agencies as a secretary. She was a past member of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Aberdeen and was active with the choir; she was a past president of the American Legion Auxiliary in Aberdeen, a member of the VFW Auxiliary, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees; the Aberdeen Chapter of Women of the Moose; a Past President of Past Presidents Parley of the American Legion Auxiliary and a past member of the National Champion Huron American Legion Auxiliary Chorus. She had resided in Watertown, Huron, Aberdeen, Pierre and Rapid City.
Survivors include a son, Joe Maltby and his wife Betty of Black Hawk; two grandchildren, Darin Maltby, Mesa, Ariz., and Debbie Berg, Rapid City; and two great-grandchildren, Adrian and Terry.
Visitation will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, at the Osheim-Catron Funeral Home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the First Congregational Church, with Rev. Ted Huffman officiating. Interment will be at the Rose Hill Cemetery at Clark, S.D., at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27.
Ethelyn L. Nelson
RAPID CITY — Ethelyn L. Nelson, 81, Rapid City, died Saturday, Feb. 23, 2002, at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls.
Survivors include one son, Gary L. Nelson, Lynnwood, Wash.; two daughters, Janet K. Boatman, Kettering, Ohio, and Linda R. Wahle, Sioux Falls; one brother, Maurice V. Anderson, Rapid City; one sister, Arlene M. Diede, Huron; and four grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending with Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City.
Roy Putzier
MITCHELL — Roy Putzier, 74, Mitchell, died Friday, Feb. 22, 2002, at Avera Queen of Peace Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Wilma, Mitchell; two daughters, Susan Walter, Howard, and Joan Kerns, Murdo; three sons, Duane Putzier, Alexandria, Lynn Putzier, Mitchell, and Leigh Putzier, Rapid City; three sisters, Helen Pringle, Ramona, Calif., Arla McClure, San Diego, Calif., and Glenna Pounds, Meridian, Idaho; nine grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Willoughby Funeral Home in Howard, and continues at St. Martins Lutheran Church in Alexandria, with family present from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday and one hour before services on Wednesday.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, at the church. Burial will be at Graceland Cemetery in Mitchell.
Olive Catherine Caffrey
RAPID CITY — Olive Catherine Caffrey passed from this present world on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002. She was born in Aberdeen, S.D., Jan. 29, 1924, to Ernest and Elsie (Mount) Peterson. She had two older brothers, Steven Peterson of Eagle River, Ark., and Wayne Peterson of Brookings, S.D.
Olive grew up in South Dakota and Oregon, and had many happy memories of her days on the home places there. She completed grade school in a Union Township school north of Ipswich, S.D., in 1937. During the summer of that year the family moved to Lookinglass, Ore., where she attended high school all four years and graduated in 1941.
Olive moved to California to help in the war effort, working in an aircraft plant. While there she met William J. Caffrey Jr. They were married on Aug. 1, 1943, at Santa Monica. Three children were born to this union. In 1966, they adopted a three-year-old boy they had cared for as a foster child since 1964.
Bill and Olive made their home in various places in California, Montana and South Dakota before moving to Martin in 1958 where Bill was employed by the Department of Public Welfare. Olive was a housewife as well as caring for several foster children and babysitting local children. After her children were grown, she started working as a nurse aide and was employed at the Martin Community Hospital and later at Gordon Memorial Hospital of Gordon, Neb. Olive immensely enjoyed working in the hospital and being of service. Reports to her family were of her being a wonderful nurse. Olive retired because of health reasons shortly after her husband's death in 1980. She helped as a volunteer monitor in the church school that her granddaughters attended until the spring of 1989.
Olive faithfully attended and loved the Bible Missionary Church of Martin until she moved to Rapid City in 1999. Here she once again joined a Bible Missionary Church, this one being pastored by her granddaughter's husband. Olive moved to Rapid to be near a dialysis unit, having lost a kidney to cancer early in 1996. Her health was rapidly deteriorating and the need for dialysis was extreme. She moved into the Wesleyan Healthcare Nursing Home the summer of 1999. In July of 2000 she was able to move to an assisted living apartment at Fairmont Grand Manor and because her unit was changing status, she moved to Fox Run Assisted Living apartments in July 2001 where she was living at the time of her death.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband and son-in-law Tim Phipps.
Survivors include two sons, Robert Caffrey and wife Wendy of Tucson, Ariz., and Tim Caffrey of Sioux Falls; two daughters, Katherine McGowan and husband Dean of The Colony, Texas, and Christie Phipps of Martin; three granddaughters, Audrey Phipps, Nichole Woodard and husband Brent of Rapid City, and Heather McGowan of The Colony; and two great-grandsons, Travis and Levi Woodard of Rapid City.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, at Kirk Funeral Home, with Rev. Brent Woodard officiating. Burial will be at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis.
Iola Cobb
FONTANA, Calif. — Iola Cobb entered into eternal rest on Feb. 21, 2002 at the Laurel Convalescent Hospital in Fontana, Calif.
She was born in Paullina, Iowa on Nov. 10, 1911. She lived most of her life in Sturgis and Rapid City, So. Dak., before moving to Fontana, Calif., in 1961. She leaves to mourn her passing a sister, Wilma Roberts, Fontana, Calif.; daughter, Charlott and husband Charles Randel, Maumelle, AK; son William Cobb and wife Julia of Rapid City, So. Dak. She has 7 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by husband Burr; one sister, Etta Proffitt; and daughter Audrea Hannan.
Burial will be at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Calif.
Virginia Mae Yun
RAPID CITY — Virginia Mae Yun, 79, Rapid City, died Friday, Feb. 22, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Survivors include three sons, Paul Hutton, Elko, Nev., and LeRoy Hutton and Kenneth Hutton, both of Rapid City; one daughter, Dianna Keester, Rapid City; three brothers, Paul Stoner, Marshalltown, Iowa, Daryl Stoner, Ipswich, and Robert Stoner, Bismarck, N.D.; two sisters, Betty McCandless, Brooksville, Fla., and Mary Roberts, Aberdeen; eight grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending with Carlsen & Aldinger Funeral Home of Sturgis.
Olive C. Caffrey
MARTIN — Olive C. Caffrey, 78, Martin, died Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Survivors include two sons, Robert Caffrey, Tucson, Ariz., and Tim Caffrey, Sioux Falls; two daughters, Kathy McGowan, The Colony, Texas, and Christie Phipps, Martin; two brothers, Steven Peterson, Eagle River, Alaska, and Wayne Peterson, Brookings; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending with Kirk Funeral Home of Rapid City.
Floyd Marchant
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Floyd Marchant, 93, Anaheim and formerly of Spearfish, S.D., died Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002, at Walnut Manor in Anaheim.
Survivors include two sons, Harold Marchant, Walnut Creek, Calif., and Jim Marchant, Placentia, Calif.
Local arrangements are pending with Fidler Funeral Chapel of Spearfish.
Marjorie Maltby
RAPID CITY — Marjorie Maltby, 88, Rapid City, died Friday, Feb. 22, 2002, in Rapid City.
Survivors include one son, Joe Maltby, Black Hawk, and two grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending with Osheim-Catron Funeral Home of Rapid City.
Gene Casey Hoffman
SILVER CITY — Gene Casey Hoffman, 52, of Silver City, died Wednesday, February 20, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Gene was born September 6, 1949, in Deadwood, to Francis and Alice Hoffman of Lead. He attended the Lead public school system where, in high school, he participated in leading roles in many dramatic productions, despite a strong tendency to improvise during long speeches. He was also an enthusiastic, if not invariable successful, wrestler, and escaped service as a saxophonist in the school band as quickly as possible. He also developed a great affection for hunting and target practice.
Upon graduation in 1967, Gene attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, spending his summers watching the belt mill at the Homestake Mine in Lead. His education was interrupted in 1969 when he volunteered for the draft, ignoring a very high Selective Service lottery number, and spent 84 days as a recruit at Fort Lewis, Washington, Due to a slight hearing
defect brought on by hunting and target practice, the Army offered Gene a choice between training as a cook and an honorable discharge, and he gratefully accepted the discharge. He returned to Macalester College, where on September 11, 1970, Gene married Judith E. Williams, also of Lead.
After taking a degree in philosophy, Gene put it to use as a bartender in the Minneapolis area for several years, developing renown for his martinis and margaritas. He then resumed his pursuit of higher learning and obtained a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. This occupation he followed primarily in foreign climes, first in Bangkok, Thailand, later for many years in hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Gene and Judy also traveled extensively and frequently throughout the rest of Asia, and the tales and souvenirs he brought back to his family and friends were an unending source of enjoyment to them, particularly his stories of duels between Scud missiles and Patriot batteries during the Gulf War.
In 1998, Gene and Judy returned to live in Silver City for a time. There Gene, who also aspired to carpentry, indulged a long-stifled passion to repair dilapidated family buildings. Gene's plans for the future, however, were cut short by lymphoma. In his struggle against this disease, Gene was, as he always was, patient, courageous, optimistic and cheerful, and concerned for the well-being of others to the very last. Always the most loved within his otherwise short-tempered family, Gene's inherent kindness and easy wit will be sorely missed by all those with the good fortune to have known him.
Survivors include his wife, Judy, Silver City; a sister, Therese Adam, Lead; two brothers, Mark, Tampa, Florida, and Stephen, Silver City; two nephews; two nieces; and two grand-nieces.
Visitation will be from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. Sunday at the Osheim-Catron Funeral Home in Rapid City.
Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Lead, with Rev. William Zandri as the celebrant.
Inurnment will be at a later date at the Silver City Cemetery.
A memorial has been established for the American Cancer Society.
