Obituaries

Funeral services for Sandra Lynn Odens will be Wednesday, May 12 at 1:30 p.m., at the Emmanuel Reformed Church in Springfield. The services will be streamed on the Springfield, Emmanuel Reformed Church Youtube site. Burial is in the Emmanuel Reformed Cemetery, rural Springfield.

Merlin Boese, age 96 of Tyndall passed away on Friday, April 30, 2021 at his home. Funeral service was held May 4 at Friedensberg Bible Church, rural Avon. Burial was at Friedensberg Mennonite Cemetery. Goglin Funeral Home, www.goglinfh. com was honored to serve the family of Merlin Boese.

Harold Picotte, 63, of Marty died Sunday, May 2, 2021 at his home in Marty. A wake service will be held Wednesday evening at the Marty Community Center in Marty. Wake services will continue on Thursday evening at the Veteran’s Building in Rosebud. Funeral services are 1 p.m.

Dale Watters, 81, died on Monday, April 19, 2021 at Lake Andes Healthcare Center. Funeral service was held April 22 at First Lutheran Church in Lake Andes. Arrangements were by Koehn Bros. Funeral Home in Lake Andes.

Lila June (Hebner) Schaefer, formerly of Avon, passed away in Pierre, on January 3. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 10:00 am at Zion Lutheran Church in Avon with internment to follow at Zion Lutheran Cemetery.

“There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning” -Louis L’Amour The story of Richard Dale Leasure began on August 8th, 1960 in Chamberlain, South Dakota. He was born to Adelia Stricker-Leasure and Bert Leasure.

Funeral services for Irene Moody, age 97, of Niobrara, Nebraska will be 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 28, at Niobrara Presbyterian Church in Niobrara. Reverend Martha Atkins will officiate, with burial in L’Eau Qui Court Cemetery in Niobrara.Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church.

Bonnie Jeanne Hoerth, a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed peacefully surrounded by family April 22nd, 2021 at the Good Samaritan Society in Tyndall, SD at the age of 80. Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 27 at United Methodist Church in Tyndall.

Scott Kelley; brother, father, child of God passed from this world to eternal life with Jesus on the beautiful day of March 5, 2021 at the young age of 67. Scott loved to play golf and enjoyed his career of truck driving.

Myron Lloyd “DD” Youngbluth, age 83, passed away on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at his residence in Paris, TN. DD was born in Wagner on January 22, 1938, to the late Lloyd and Genevieve (Fry) Youngbluth. DD served his country as a Korean War era Veteran from 1955-1958.