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Twila TrippTwila Kathleen Tripp, 85 of
Yankton, SD passed away onSaturday, August 16, 2014 atthe AveraYankton CareCenter.
Funeralservices willbe 11:00 a.m.Friday, August22, 2014 at theGayvilleUnitedMethodistChurch. Burialwill follow in the Volin Ceme-tery.
Visitation will be from 5 to7 p.m. Thursday, August 21,2014 with a prayer service be-ginning at 7 p.m. at theHansen Funeral Home in Irene.
Kathleen was born toJohnathan and Stella Grace(Billups) Chancellor on June16, 1929 in Scotland County,Missouri. Kathleen marriedDennis Tripp on October 29,1950. Together they raised 8children, 4 boys and 4 girls.
Kathleen held a variety ofjobs over her lifetime; her firstwas a school teacher in Mis-
souri after graduation. Aftermoving to South Dakota shewas a baby sitter for others,seamstress, meat wrapper at agrocery store in Vermillion,Cook at the Volin School,owned and operated the Volincafé, worked at Sacred HeartHospital in the kitchen andthen after retiring from thehospital, she went back to herfavorite job which was cook-ing at the Gayville VolinSchool so that every day shecould see most of her grand-children. She was also partici-pated in the 3rd Grade SeniorBuddy program at the schooland was usually pared up witha grandchild, which made it avery special time for all.
Her hobbies were sewing,reading, fishing, going toevents that her children orgrandchildren were in, andloved animals and most of allenjoyed family gatheringswhere she could catch up oneveryone’s lives.
Kathleen is survived byher 2 sisters, Mary Norton,Olathe KS, Garnet Tripp, Ka-hoka, MO and her 8 children.Wes (June) Tripp, Gayville, SD;Alvin (Martha) Tripp, Utica,
SD; Tim (Kim) Tripp, Hartford,SD; Pam (Rex) Bye, Gayville,SD: Tammie (Doug) Ruffle,Nashville, TN; Scott Tripp,Volin, SD; Janet (Darrell) Haas,Volin, SD and Crystal (DougRomshek) Henrichs, Bellwood,NE. She is also survived by 17grandchildren-Julie Babcock,David Tripp, Traci Golas; Jes-sica Tripp, Nick Tripp, TomTripp, Adam Tripp, Bob Bye,Terry Bye, ChristopherRoozen, Kerrie Roozen,Amanda Frazier, Krista Tripp,Cameron Tripp, Jeremy Tripp,Megan Haas and MelodyStarkey. She is also survivedby 15 great grandchildren andnumerous nieces andnephews.
She is preceded in deathby her husband Dennis Tripp,one infant child, her parents,her brothers Max, Paul, Lee,Miles, Joe and Lyle Chancellor.
For obituary and onlinecondolences visit hansenfu-neralhome.com/.
Yankton Press & Dakotan
August 18, 2014
Helen KoupalHelen Koupal, 107, of
Mitchell died Thursday, Aug.14, at the Firesteel HealthcareCenter, Mitchell.
Funeral services are at10:30 a.m. today (Monday) atHoly Spirit Catholic Church,
Mitchell, with Fr. Michael R.Schneider officiating. Burial isin Graceland Cemetery,Mitchell.
Visitations are one hourprior to service at the church.
Arrangements are underthe care of Basham FuneralService, Woonsocket.
Lucille FrankLucille J. Frank, 87, of
Wessington Springs died earlySaturday morning, Aug. 16,2014, at the WeskotaManor/Avera Health.
Funeral services are at10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20,at Our Savior's Lutheran
Church with the Rev. JohnPaulson officiating. Burial willbe in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
Friends may call at theBasham Funeral Home inWessington Springs Tuesdayfrom 5-7 p.m. with a prayerservice at 7 p.m.
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A social group of ladies who have lost their spouse which meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month in the Hospitality
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Albert GallAlbert J. Gall, age 93 years,
5 months, and 21 days passedaway Wednesday, August 13,2014 at Avera Yankton CareCenter, Yankton, SD.
Memorial services will be10:30 a.m. Tuesday, August19, 2014 at the Opsahl-KostelFuneral Chapel, Yankton, SDwith Pastor Bob Cappel offici-ating. Burial of his crematedremains will be at 9:00 a.m.Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at
the Garden ofMemories,Yankton, SDwith MilitaryGravesideRites by theSDARNGHonor Guardand theErnest-Bowyer VFW
Post #791 Honor Guard. Visitations will be 5 to 7
p.m. Monday, August 18, 2014at the Opsahl-Kostel Funeral
Home & Crematory, Yankton,and then one hour prior tothe service at the funeralhome.
Albert was born February24, 1921 to Henry H. andLydia (Mehrer) Gall in Lester-ville, SD. He entered the U.S.Army September 10, 1942 andspent the next 35 months inthe Signal Corp in the US,North Africa and Italy untilOctober 17, 1945. He marriedIvy May Wood in Los Angeles,CA on December 20, 1942. To
this union, two sons and adaughter were born. Albertwas honorably discharged onOctober 17, 1945.
When Albert returnedfrom Italy, he started Gall Gas& Oil in Lesterville and ex-panded the business over thenext 19 years. He sold thebusiness December of 1964and moved to Yankton wherehe sold Mutual Funds, was acar salesman for WudelChevrolet and was an insur-ance adjuster. Albert was a
lifetime member of the VFWand enjoyed playing golf.
Albert is survived by hiswife, May of Yankton, SD; son,Terry Gall of Sioux Falls, SD;daughter, Patricia (David)Jones of Glenrock, WY; 3grandchildren: ChristopherDavid (Kim) Jones of ClearLake, MN, Stacie (Mike)Porter of Casper, WY and Jen-nifer (Rod) Robinson of Day-ton, WY and 9great-grandchildren.
Albert was preceded in
death by his parents, son,Douglas Gall , sister, IdellaMagstadt and brother, WalterGall.
Yankton Press & Dakotan
August 18, 2014
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Gall
Travis HayesTravis Gustav Hayes, age
21, of Yankton, South Dakota,died Thursday, August 14,2014 as the result of a car ac-cident west of Yankton.
Funeral services will be2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August19, 2014, at the Wintz & RayFuneral Home in Yankton pro-vided by the Sioux CityGospel Hall. Burial will be inthe Garden of MemoriesCemetery in Yankton.
Visitation is from 5:00 to8:00 p.m. on Monday, August18, 2014, at the Wintz and Ray
FuneralHome with aprayer serv-ice at 7:00p.m. Visita-tion will re-sume onehour prior tothe funeralon Tuesday.
Pallbear-ers are Tyson Hayes, ErselHayes, Nathaniel Hayes,Charles Hayes, Cory Ven-ables, Tyler Rauscher, RobertLindsay, Ryan Olson, and Den-nis Olson. Honorary pallbear-
ers are Kamaria Hayes,Melissa Hayes, MirandaOlson, Jill Ristau, and ShelbyJansen.
Travis was born August31, 1992 in Sioux City, Iowa toErsel Roosevelt Hayes andMary Olson. He grew up inYankton, South Dakota and at-tended Webster Elementary,Yankton Middle School andthen graduated from WestCentral High School in Hart-ford, South Dakota in 2010. Hemoved back to Yankton andworked at McDonald’s, TacoJohn’s and most recently at
Lewis & Clark Ford. Through-out those years he would alsohelp his mother, Mary, drivingfor River City Cab.
Travis loved fishing, play-ing basketball, music, danc-ing, but most of all hangingout with his brothers andfriends. He had a heart ofgold and was always lookingout for everyone else. Hecould always make you feelbetter by his great smile. Heloved his family and enjoyedspending time with his niecesand nephews.
Survivors include his
mother, Mary Olson of Yank-ton; four brothers: TysonHayes of Sioux Falls, SouthDakota; Ersel (Jessica) Hayesof Yankton; Nathaniel Hayesof Yankton; and CharlesHayes of Yankton; two sisters:Melissa Hayes of El Dorado,Arkansas and Kamaria Hayesof Yankton; 19 nieces andnephews; two beloved pets:Taz and Baloo; and manyaunts, uncles, and cousins.
He was preceded in deathby his father, Ersel RooseveltHayes; paternal grandparents,Sam and Betty Hayes, mater-
nal grandparents, Charles andDorothy Olson; two uncles,David Hayes and Ron Wood;and cousin, Daniel Williams.
To post an online sympa-thy message visit wintzrayfu-neralhome.com.
Yankton Press & Dakotan
August 18, 2014
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Hayes
Art Hasker Jr.Art Hasker, Jr, age 81, of
Yankton, passed away Thurs-day, August 14, 2014 at AveraQueen of Peace Hospital,Mitchell, SD.
Mass of Christian Burialwill be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,August 20, 2014 at SacredHeart Catholic Church, Yank-ton, SD with Rev. MarkLichter officiating. Privatefamily interment of the cre-mated remains will be in theSacred Heart Cemetery,
Yankton SD. Visita-
tions willbegin at 5:00p.m. Tues-day, August19, 2014 atthe Opsahl-Kostel Fu-neral Home
& Crematory, Yankton, with arosary at 7:00 p.m. followedby a Scripture service at 7:30p.m. Visitations will resumeone hour prior to the service
at the church. Pallbearers will be Dan
Specht, Maynard Justra, RobWinchell, Tom Rockne, KenHaas, and Jim Simpson.
Art was born April 11th,1933 to Arthur and Erma(Kirschenman) Hasker Sr. Hewas baptized and confirmedin Sacred Heart Church, Yank-ton, SD. He attended ModelSchool in 1942 at MountMarty College. He graduatedfrom Yankton High School in1951. Art joined the US Navyin 1951, where he served in
ADAK in the Alcuin Islands inAlaska and then finished hisservice in California. Afterfour years of service, Art wasHonorably Discharged fromthe Navy and remained livingand working in Napa, Califor-nia until 1956. Art then re-turned to Yankton, SD, wherehe opened a grocery-meatmarket with his father, ArthurSr. Art married PatriciaFitzgerald on September 27,1959 in Napa, California. Aftertheir marriage in Napa theyreturned to Yankton, where
Art operated his own storefor 35 years. He would latergo on to work for Hy-Vee forthe last 17 years. Hobbies ofArt’s ranged from flying air-planes, building and runningmodel trains that he col-lected, working in his rosegarden, traveling to LakeTahoe for vacations, andreading books about WorldWar II. Art loved his familyand all of his friends and co-workers at Hy-Vee.
Art is survived by his wife,Patricia Hasker of Yankton, SD
and his daughter, JoanRochelle Hasker of Yankton,SD.
Art was preceded in deathby his mother, father and hissister, Sharon Huitema.
Yankton Press & Dakotan
August 18, 2014
Hasker Jr.
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Steven SchweitzerSteven Francis
Schweitzer, age 67 years,passed away Saturday, Au-gust 16, 2014 at his homesurrounded by his familyafter a four month strugglewith cancer.
Mass of Christian Burialwill be 2:00 p.m., Wednesday,August 20, 2014 at St. Bene-dict Catholic Church, Yank-ton, SD with Rev. Ken Lulfofficiating. Burial will be ap-proximately 4:30 p.m.,Wednesday afternoon at theSt. Boniface parish cemetery,Idylwilde.
Visitations will be beginat 6:00 p.m., Tuesdayevening at St. Ben’s CatholicChurch, Yankton, with arosary at 7:00 p.m. and aScripture service at 7:30 p.m.Visitations will resume onehour prior to the service atthe church. The Opsahl-Kos-tel Funeral Home & Crema-tory, Yankton, is assistingwith service details.
Pallbearers will be:Matthew Miller; Genevieve
Schweitzer;CaseySkillingstad;BradySkillingstad;SarahSchweitzer;MaddieSchweitzer.HonoraryPallbearers
will be his additional grand-children and great grandchil-dren
Steve was born November19th, 1946 to Francis and Ade-line (Moeller) Schweitzer inYankton, South Dakota. Hewas the oldest of fourteenchildren. His early life con-sisted of studies at District 27School, Salem Township. Healso worked for his father andUncle Bill on their familyfarms in Turner County wherehe developed a work ethicthat served him well all of hislife. He graduated from Free-man High School and Free-man Junior College beforeattending South Dakota StateUniversity where he attaineda bachelor degree in Electri-cal Engineering. A desire for
empathetic living drove hispassion for learning. His de-votion to this was nurturedby reading, attending and fa-cilitating self-improvementseminars, and in later yearstaking classes in theology andpsychology, earning his Mas-ter of Arts degree from MountMarty College in Yankton, SD.
After graduation fromSDSU, Steve established avery successful career inpower systems operations atthe Western Area Power Ad-ministration. He worked inthe Huron, SD; Watertown,SD; and the Billings, MT of-fices before finishing his ca-reer in Denver, Colorado asChief Operating Officer re-sponsible for a six state Mid-west power grid.
Steve met his future wifeMary (Allen) Harvey at a Par-ents Without Partners cake-walk in Billings, Montana.They married on June 5, 1976and moved to Watertown, SD,where they lovingly raisedtheir seven children. Familyoutings were many, includinghunting, fishing, backpacking,biking, and a general pursuit
of all things outdoors. Hischildren carry on many ofthese traditions with theirfamilies and friends.
Retiring in 1996, Steve andMary moved back to Yanktonwhere his story began. Help-ing family and giving back tothe community were two pil-lars of his retirement life. Heappreciated assisting hisbrother on the family farm,working the same lands hehad years before with his fa-ther and uncle. He enjoyedtime visiting with family; at-tending grandkid’s activities;going on MS bike rides; hik-ing; fishing; and hunting. Hevolunteered for and servedon the boards of the House ofMary Shrine and the SouthDakota National Alliance onMental Illness (NAMI). His re-tirement years focused onwhat he had learned was im-portant in life: family; helpingothers; and making this worlda better place.
He was “Weed” to hischildhood pals for reasons hecouldn’t remember or would-n’t divulge; “Steven” to hisbrothers, sisters, mother and
father; “Mr. Schweitzer” atwork; “Honey” to his wife;“Pa” to his children; and“Grandpa” to his grandchil-dren. Regardless of how hewas called, everyone knewhim as a man who caredgreatly for others; alwaysgave and rarely asked; andworked daily at being a goodman, a loving son, brother,husband, father, relative andfriend. He provided a modellife for us to emulate and tryto follow. We will miss himdearly.
Steven is survived by hiswife of 38 years, Mary. Hischildren: Bill (Melanie)Schweitzer of Chanhasssan,MN; Noleen (Curt)Skillingstad of Yankton, SD;Tracy (Earl) Horton ofPipeston, MN; John (Stacie)Harvey of Lawrenceburg, IN;Tim (Carol) Harvey of Col-orado Springs, CO; David(Rattanamon) Harvey ofBangkok, Thailand; AdamSchweitzer of Yankton, SD; hismother Adeline Schweitzer ofYankton SD; brothers: AllenSchweitzer, Michael (Suk)Schweitzer, Bruce (Sandy)
Schweitzer, Randy Schweitzer,Brian (Sherry) Schweitzer,Darrold (Lori) Schweitzer,Kevin (Kara) Schweitzer; sis-ters: Angela (Randy) Schaef-fer, Donna (William) Cap,Mary (Doug) Baumiller,Pamela Jensen, Charlene(Gerry) Hora, Vicki (Garrett)Pachl; 12 grandchildren; 3great grandchildren; and rela-tives and friends too numer-ous to mention.
Steve was preceded indeath by his father Francis,daughter Kayleen, and grand-daughter Cassia.
In honor of Steve’s mem-ory, the family requests me-morials be directed to NAMISouth Dakota, PO Box 88808,Sioux Falls SD, 57109; Houseof Mary Shrine, Lewis andClark Lake, PO Box 455, Yank-ton, SD 57078; or a charity ofyour choice.
Yankton Press & Dakotan
August 18, 20
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