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Dolores Soles, 97

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Dolores Soles, 97, of Winner, SD passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021 at the Winner Regional Health Care Center in Winner, SD.

Funeral services were held on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021 at 2 p.m.  at the Church of Nazarene in Winner. Burial  followed in the Winner City Cemetery.

Dolores Mae Mann was born Aug. 12, 1924 to George and Myrtle (Patterson) Mann along with identical twin sister Dorothy in a farm house north of Colome. In 1927 they moved to a farm southeast of Millboro. She attended school at Millboro High School. Her and her twin Dorothy went home to work on the family farm. Dolores and Dorothy were always mistaken for each other wherever they would go.

Dolores married Frank Soles on Aug. 24, 1942 in Valentine, NE. They lived 13 miles southwest of Winner. To this union four children were born: Frank Allan, Kathy, Linda, and Patricia.

While the children were growing up, they attended Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Later in life she became a member of Church of the Nazarene and attended with her sister Maxine.

During her adult years she had daycare in her home, helped with the legion steak night, volunteered at the nursing home with her sister Maxine. She loved to bake and taught her daughters and granddaughters how. She had patience and didn’t care on how big of a mess was made in the kitchen. She loved to dance where her and Frank went with family and friends to local dance halls. She also loved to play marbles and skipbo with her children and grandchildren.

She is survived by her children Frank Allan (Joanna) Soles, Bridgeton, MO; Kathy (Craig) Scott, Council Bluffs, IA; Linda (Danny) Brunmeier; Patricia Rehak; and a special friend Kathy (Ron) Taggart all of Winner, SD; also many nieces and nephews and sisters-in-law Ellen Goslin, Idaho; Mary Hayford, Oregon; & Helen Michaels, Idaho.

Her grandchildren Frank Allan Soles Jr., St. Louis, MO; Justin (Val) Brunmeier, Winner, SD; Danielle (Dan) Bohman, Pierre, SD; Jamie (Haris) Scott-Bosnic, West Des Moines, IA; and John (Jessie) Rehak, Winner, SD.

Great grandchildren Alyssa Soles, Tyler Brunmeier, Tayne Bohman, Brantley, John-Douglas, & Jack Rehak.

Great great grandchild RiverLee Brunmeier.

Preceding her in death were her husband Frank, parents George and Myrtle, her siblings Isabel, Lela, Percy, Maxine, Dorothy, Twila, Bud, son-in-law Doug Rehak, Franks parents Bill & Dottie and numerous brothers and sisters.

John Taggart, 89

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John Taggart passed away July 24, 2021.  John was born Dec. 1,1931 in Colome, South Dakota. 

He married Lillian Jerred in Colome SD June 11, 1951.  Lillian and John lived on the family farm until 1971, when they moved to Northglenn, Colorado.

John was an active member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and the Knights of Columbus in Northglenn, Colorado.  He was Grand Knight of Council 7502 and a founding member.  He was also a member of the Colorado District 4th Degree Exemplification team for many years.

As an avid camper and fisherman, John and Lillian spent many weekends with kids and friends fishing and camping in Colorado.

John was preceded in death by his wife, Lillian, and is survived by his 5 children, Doug (Polly), Jerry (Janine), Karen King, Brad (Linda), Robert (Kim), 20 grandchildren, great grandchildren and his brother Frank.      It was the wish of John for any donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or the charity of your choice.  Cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be held

Ron Waller Golf Tournament

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Dan Bechtold/Winner Advocate Photo
Rich Crow Eagle, right and Mike Beardt were named the winners of the Ron Waller memorial member guest golf tournament at the Winner Country Club on Sunday. Making the presentation are Brenda Klein and Steph Waller.

Rich Crow Eagle and Mike Beardt were the winners of the 27th annual Ron Waller Memorial member-guest golf tournament Saturday and Sunday at Winner Country Club.

The pair from Mission shot a 126.

The derby champions were Cordell Nilson and Luke Fischer. The runner-up team was Blake Gardner and Barry Gardner.

Saturday flight winners include:

Flight A

1.  Rich Crow Eagle, Mike Beardt, 63

2.  Blake Bauer, Matt Bauer, 65; 3. Larry Aaker, Anthony Husher, 69; 4. Justin Zeigler, Erin Early, 70

Flight B

1.  Clay Fenenga, Jeff Seefeldt, 81; 2. Eric Pollard, Dan Diez, 81; 3. Jim Halverson/Chris Whitehorn, 81; 4. Kim Hanson, Brian Buchholtz, 81

Flight C

1.  Chad Peterson/Scott Pekarek, 86 2. Kelly Meiners, Mike Hammer, 86; 3. Barry Grossenburg, Bob Severson, 86; 4. Randy Kludt, Dennie Pravecek

Sunday flight winners were:

Flight A—1. Rich Crow Eagle, Mike Beardt, 63; 2. Larry Aaker, Anthony Husher, 64; 3. Lucas Jedlicki, Sam Hossle, 65; 4. Justin Zeigler, Erin Early, 66

Flight B—1. Chuck Keiser, Dave Keiser, 74; 2. Casey Osborn, Brady Moorhead, 75; 3. Joshua Antman, Patrick Iyotte, 75; 4. Chris Burns, Bruce Drapeaux, 75

Flight C—1. Vern Olson, Adam Hutmacher, 72; 2. Jim Hofeldt, Ben Beagle, 76; 3. Stormy Halligan, Troy Feisterman, 77; 4. Barry Grossenburg, Bob Severson, 79.

Pin prize winners on Saturday were:

Hole 2 closes to pin—member Russ Williams, guest Tim Marchese

Hole 3 closest to pin—Justin Zeigler, member and Luke Fischer, guest

Hole 4 long putt—Barry Gardner, member and Austin Moser, guest

Hole 5 closest to pin in 3 Justin Zeigler, member and Anthony Husher, guest

Hole 6 long putt—Blake Baer, member and Scot Pekarek, guest

Hole 7 closest to pin—member Kevin Keiser, guest Matt Bauer

hole 9 long drive—Cordill Nilson, member and Nick Larsen, guest

Pin prize winners on Sunday are:

Hole 2 Closest to pin in 2—Larry Aaker member and Mike Beardt, guest

Hole 3 closest to pin—Stormy Halligan, member and Phil Husher, guest

Hole 4  long putt—Chuck Keiser, member and Mike Cahoy, guest

Hole 5 closest to pin in 3—Bob Benson, member and Erin Early, guest

Hole 6 long putt—Izak Nespor, member and Mike Cahoy, guest

Hole 7  closest to pin—Mike Stickland, member and Anthony Husher, guest

Hole 9 long drive—Izak Nespor, member and Adam Hutmacher, guest

The calcutta winners were:

Championship flight

1. Lucas Jedlicki, Sam Hossle,60 2. Larry Aaker and Anthony Husher, 61; 3. Cordell Nilson, Luke Fischer, 61.5

4. Justin Zeigler, Erin Early, 62.5

First Flight

1-2 Chuck Keiser, Dave Keiser, Landon Engel and Garrett Gronlund, 74; 3-4 Casey Osborn, Brady Moorhead, Joshua Antman, Patrick Iyotte and Mike Stickland and Phil Husher, 74.

Second Flight

1. Vern Olson, Adam Hutmacher 71; 2. Jim Hofeldt, Ben Beagle, 73; 3. Kevin Meiners, Dan Drake, 75.5; 4. Stormy Halligan, Troy Feisterman, 76 

Mortenson, and Rowe Honored

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Ryder Mortenson and Heather Rowe of Winner were among 28 South Dakota FFA members to receive their American FFA degree.

They will be recognized during the 94th national FFA convention Oct. 30 in Indianapolis, Ind.

The American degree is the highest degree an FFA member can receive in the national FFA organization. Only FFA members who have demonstrated the highest level of commitment to FFA and made significant accomplishments in their supervised agricultural experiences are eligible for the American degree.

Members must have earned and productively invested at least $7,500 or have earned and productively invested at least $1,500 and worked 2,250 hours beyond school schedule through their SAEs.

Labor Day events planned

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Advance sales of Labor Day carnival tickets are in full gear.

The carnival will be on Main Street Sept. 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Mac’s Carnival and attractions provides the rides, games and attractions the Labor Day weekend.

Advance tickets are available at the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce office, city of Winner office, True Value, Hidden Gems, Winner Food Center and BankWest.

The advance sale is 12 tickets for $20.

Persons who want to have a float in the Labor Day parade let the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce know.

With Labor Day just around the corner this is a lot going on in Winner that weekend. There  is the big demolition derby, barbeque in front of the Legion after the parade,  donkey ball at the rodeo grounds , car show at the Tripp County Historical Society Museum.

The museum will be open the day of the car show serving homemade pie and ice cream.

In the morning, Jim Hiemstra will be serving his famous  caramel rolls.
The Winner Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring bull riding on Saturday Sept. 4.

Labor Day morning is the big Winner Regional Health road race.

And after the race is the big parade. Remember, due to the highway construction there is a totally different parade route this year. It will still line up on South County but it will go south to 7th street and turn east going all the way down 7th St.  to the Winner High School.

This is just a brief outline of some of the events to plan for on Labor Day.  Next week’s Winner Advocate will have more detail on events.  This is just a brief snapshot and we did try to list every event that is for the Sept. 1 paper.