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Vicki Marie (Deutsch) Moser, 55, of Winner, SD passed away on Thursday, July 29, 2021 at The Center at Lowry in Denver, CO. 

Funeral service will be held on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021 11 a.m. at the Winner United Methodist Church in Winner, SD.  Burial will follow in the Winner City Cemetery.  A visitation will be held one hour prior to funeral service.

Vicki Marie (Deutsch) Moser of Winner, SD was born on April 22, 1966 in Valentine, Nebraska, to Fred Deutsch and Verna Marie (Kahler) Mayer of Winner, SD. She married Chad Moser on June 11, 2011. Vicki had three children, Mark and Michael O’Rear and Tina (Espinoza) Miller; and three stepchildren, Austin, Aspen, and Layne Moser.

Vicki was well known for her kindness and loving service to others. She was a nursing assistant for many years, an expression of her care and concern for others. She enjoyed doing arts and crafts. She loved baking, especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Her children and grandchildren remember her as a generous and loyal mother and grandmother.

Moser is preceded in death by her parents, Fred Deutsch and Verna Marie (Kahler) Mayer; and stepfather Del Mayer.

Moser is survived by her husband, Chad Moser; her sister, Valerie Jo Benko (John); her brother, Alan W. Deutsch (Susan); her children, Mark O’Rear, Michael O’Rear, Tina Marie Espinoza Miller (John Allan); and her stepchildren, Austin Moser (Jill), Aspen Moser (Jon), and Layne Moser. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Jerimiah Valdez, Kaylee and Mark Jr O’Rear; Trinity Castro-Wade and Kaiden and Bailey O’Rear; Aliyah, Kaitlyn, and Lakely Miller; and her step-grandchildren, Hazel and Bentley Moser and Keegen, Kamden, and Karter Burdette.

Richard Bertram, 73 of Winner, SD passed away on Saturday, July 31, 2021 at the Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls, SD. 

A Celebration of Life and luncheon will be held on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021 at the Colome American Legion in Colome, SD.  The family will begin meeting people at 11:30 a.m. with food and fellowship to follow.

Rosabel (Rose) Snethen, 96, of Miami, OK, formerly of Clearfield, SD, passed away on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at the Wind Ridge Nursing Center in Miami, OK.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 10 a.m.  at the Church of Nazarene in Winner, SD. Burial followed in the Winner City Cemetery.

Rosabel (Rose) Snethen was born Oct. 28, 1924 on a farm in Gassman Township, Tripp County, South Dakota. Parents were David and Marjorie (Larson) Erickson. The farm was on a White River bottom, 13 miles north of Hamill, SD. School was difficult and several teachers lived with the family and had class in the living room for Rose and sister Ruth.

  Rose attended Winner High School in 1939 and graduated in 1941. She then attended Van Sant Business college in Omaha, Neb., and was employed in Omaha until marriage to Maurice Snethen on Jan. 26, 1946.

Maurice and Rose purchased a farm in Rosedale Township, Tripp County, SD which was their home until 1981. Rose was active in the Winner Methodist Church, 4H and extension club. Five-year-old twins, Sandra Brozik, Gregory, SD and Randy Snethen, Dallas, TX were adopted.

In 1982, a home was purchased in Miami, OK. Because of Maurice’s failing health beginning in 1978, ten winters were spent in south Texas.

Several hobbies were enjoyed by Rose which included leathercraft, bead craft, and Hardanger Embroidery. Rose also was a volunteer at the Baptist Hospital, Miami for several years. 

In 1998, she learned to use a computer. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, Miami.

Preceding her in death was Maurice Snethen, parents Marjorie and David Erickson, sisters Ruth Christensen and Dolores Fecht.

Survivors include Sandra Brozik, Randy Snethen, and brother Don Erickson plus grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren.

Harley Edward Furrey, 90, of Quinn, South Dakota, formerly of Todd County, South Dakota, passed away on May 2, 2021.

A Memorial Mass will be held on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021 at 10 a.m. at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Winner, South Dakota, followed by a luncheon at St. Mary’s Hall. A private family burial was held on May 7, 2021 at the Winner City Cemetery.

Born on Aug. 15, 1930 at Ashurst Hospital in Rosebud, South Dakota, Harley was the first child of Harrison and Louise (Whiting) Furrey of Okreek, South Dakota. He was baptized on Aug. 25, 1930 in St. Francis, South Dakota, and remained a devoted member of the Catholic Church.

Harley grew up on farms in Todd County, South Dakota, where the family eventually settled at what became known as The Furrey Place, five and one-half miles south of US Highway 18. He graduated from Winner High School and kept in touch with his classmates throughout his lifetime.

A Korean War veteran, Harley was an active duty Marine from 1952 until 1954, being meritoriously promoted to Corporal in 1953 and receiving an honorable discharge. After his military service, Harley returned to the farm and in 1963 married Alice Neuharth. They had three children: Lisa, Vincent, and Paul. Alice passed away in 1998 from multiple myeloma, and in 2003 Harley married Kathy (Sieler) Clark of Quinn, South Dakota.

When their father died in 1971, Harley and his brother, Bill, formed Furrey Bros. partnership, which they operated until Bill’s death in 2018. The two brothers were known both for their daily morning farm meetings over coffee and for their prodigious memories of the history of the people and places of Todd County and the Rosebud Reservation. They welcomed visitors both familiar and new, whether family, neighbors, or hunters, and always had time for conversation, coffee, and cake.

In recent years, Harley and Kathy lived near Quinn, South Dakota, where he enjoyed his role of stepfather, step-grandparent and step-great-grandparent, as well as his chats with neighbors and tourists at Wall Drug. He was diagnosed with a back fracture after entering the Philip Hospital in February 2021 and was transferred to the Philip Nursing Home a few weeks later.

Harley is survived by his wife Kathryn Clark Furrey of Quinn; children, Lisa Rivero (Al) of Wisconsin, Vincent Furrey (Loretta) of Arizona, and Paul Furrey (Christine) of Colorado; sisters, Dorothy Schultz (Charles) of Wyoming and Mary Cournoyer of Florida; grandchildren, Albert Rivero (Jamie), Gavin Furrey, Anna Furrey, Charley Furrey, and Corbin Furrey; stepchildren, Jeffrey Clark, Randall Clark, and Laurie Hindman, and their children and grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, neighbors, and friends.Harley was preceded in death by his parents, Harry and Louise Furrey, his wife Alice (Neuharth) Furrey, his brother, William “Bill” Furrey (Laurine), and his half-brothers, Gerald Furrey and Del Furrey.