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Funeral services for Mara Beckwith, 82, will be held Wednesday, November 23 at 2 p.m., at the Wagner Community Church. Burial is in the ZCBJ Cemetery, rural Wagner. A Celebration of Mara’s Life visitation will be at the church on Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m., with sharing of memories at 5:30 p.m. Peters Funeral Home in Wagner is in charge of arrangements.
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Jaroslav Duane “Sonny” Pavlis, 92, of Lake Andes passed peacefully, surrounded by family on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at the Wagner Community Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were held Monday, November 21 with visitation at Koehn Bros. Funeral Chapel in Geddes. Military burial followed at Pleasant Lawn Cemetery, Geddes.
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Wayne F. Brooks, 92, went to his heavenly home Tuesday, November 15 at Walnut Village Assisted Living in Yankton. Funeral mass was held Saturday, November 19 at St. Mark’s Catholic Church in Lake Andes. Arrangements by Koehn Bros. Funeral Home in Lake Andes.
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Funeral Mass for Florence Kokesh, 91, of Wagner were held Saturday, November 5 at St. John’s Catholic Church in Wagner. Burial was in St. John’s Catholic Cemetery. Peters Funeral Home in Wagner was in charge of arrangements.
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Memorial services for Charles Thaler, 93, of Wagner, were held Saturday, November 12 at the United Methodist Church in Wagner, with military honors. Peters Funeral Home in Wagner was in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorials will be directed to the Wagner United Methodist Church.
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Memorial services for De-Lores ‘Dee’ Ida Rose Youngbluth will be held Saturday, November 19 at 10:00 a.m., at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Hot Springs. Services will be videotaped and will be viewable on her obituary, after the service.
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Glen Raymond Huggins, age 96, passed away peacefully on November 5, 2022, at the Platte Hospital surrounded by family while under Hospice Care.
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Daniel E. Koupal was born on February 13, 1921, on the family farm in Charles Mix County to V.J. and Anastasia Koupal. He was educated in the Dante area schools and entered the United States Army at the age of 21. He served three and a half years which included time in World War II. After the service, he returned to Dante where he worked on the family farm. Shortly after his return to South Dakota, he went to the Fireman’s Ball in Armour where he met Frances Cunningham, the love of his life. They were married on September 30, 1947. They would dance together for over 64 years. After their marriage, Daniel and Frances farmed near Dante for over a decade. During that time, their three children Pamela, Dana and Gregory were born. In 1960 they relocated the family to Rapid City and soon after built a home on the Westside where they lived for nearly 43 years. He loved the Black Hills, especially Spearfish Canyon. He said he never regretted the move to Rapid City.
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