Clarine Black, 86, of Winner, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020 at the Winner Regional Hospital in Winner, SD.
Funeral service was held on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 at 10:30am at the Winner United Methodist Church. Burial followed in the Winner City Cemetery. A visitation will be held one hour prior to funeral service.
Clarine Ena (Felstehausen) Black of Winner, South Dakota was born on Sept. 26, 1934 to Frederick Wilhelm Felstehausen and Ena Lea Fossum. Clarine grew up on the family farm in Clark County with her brothers Eugene and Herman, attended rural school through the eighth grade and graduated from Clark High School in Clark, South Dakota. After high school Clarine spent two years at Northern State Teachers College in Aberdeen where she received her two year teaching degree. While at Northern she met Kenneth Black, who was the brother of her roommate Joan.
Clarine spent the 1954-1955 school year teaching country school at Ree Heights, South Dakota.
On June 5, 1955 she and Ken were married in Clark, South Dakota. Their first home was in Armour, South Dakota where their first child (Bill) was born. In 1958 they moved to Murdo, South Dakota and shortly after moved to Winner where they made their permanent home. They had three more children, Fred, Robert, and Ena. During their first four years in Winner, Clarine taught K-8 grades at country schools in rural Tripp County. After the birth of Fred, she retired from teaching and worked at home with her family. When her children were grown she started a new career as an Avon representative and worked with Avon for 35 years.
Clarine was a member of the Winner United Methodist Church and seldom missed a Sunday, holiday service or special event. An outgrowth of her spiritual life was her involvement in community service organizations. She was in Methodist Women’s Circle, taught Sunday School, was a member of the Winner Women’s Club, a leader of the Modern Woodmen Service Organization, a Cub Scout den mother, a Lion’s Club member wife and later a Lion’s club member. She served as treasurer at the Winner Senior Center. Clarine and Ken were lifelong members of the Order of Eastern Star.
Clarine liked having her family together and planned an annual Christmas party for just before Christmas every year. She loved her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and could tell you everything about them whenever asked. One of her great gifts was her ability to make you feel like you were the most important person in her life. She enjoyed knitting, sewing, and making rag rugs. Her great joy was visiting her children and grandchildren in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, eastern South Dakota, the South Dakota Black Hills, Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.
Clarine is survived by her brother Herman Felstehausen, his wife Geka and her sister-in-law Donna (Eugene) Felstehausen, her four children, Bill (Sarah), Fred(Mary Kay), Robert (Arlene), and Ena (Brad), grandchildren Suzie (Frank), Sally (Jason), and Nancy, Heidi(Daniel), Kristi(Matt) Tom(Onita), Penny(Dustin),, and Cassie Marie(Mark), her great grandchildren Ellie and Collin, Autumn, Evelyn, Leroy and Kenneth, Trinity and Kylo, Mary Jane, Rubin, Andrew, and Alyssa, her great, great grandchildren, Aurora Rae, Linkin, and Veronica Ann as well as a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her father (Fred), mother (Ena), and step mother (Irma), her husband Kenneth, and her older brother Eugene.
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