Mary Jane (Legge) Devish Kaplan of Winner, South Dakota passed away on Oct. 8, 2019 at Winner Regional Long Term Care at the age of 95.
Mary Jane requested no formal funeral service, however, there was a graveside service and burial at the Winner City Cemetery on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019 at 2 p.m.
Mary Jane Legge Devish Kaplan was born on Nov. 23, 1923 to George Custer and Amelia (Horak) Legge at their homestead west of Clearfield, South Dakota.
She attended Dorian Meadows School which is now at the Winner Historical Society. She road the train to North Bend, Nebraska for her first year of high school, then attended two years of high school at Beaver Creek and graduated from Winner High School in 1941 as a member of the National Honor Society. She then went to Southern State Normal School in Springfield, South Dakota and ended up teaching at Dorian Meadows and South Longview.
After her brothers went to the service, she helped out on the family farm.
On Feb. 7, 1948, she married Johnny Devish. They managed the pool hall in Clearfield and later moved to Winner. Mary Jane worked at Gibson’s, the Lee Store, Miller Bros and W.H. Sturges Co.
Johnny passed away in 1996. She later married Darrel Kaplan and they divorced.
She lived in her home in Winner until 2012 when she moved to the Golden Prairie Manor.
Mary Jane was a fun loving lady and had an infectious laugh. She enjoyed trips to the casino, “several” competitive games of pitch and visiting with everyone. She had a kind heart and will be missed by many.
She is survived by her sister-in-law, Margaret Legge, and numerous nieces, nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Amelia, husbands, Johnny and Darrel, brothers, Gerald, George, Kenneth, Judson, Harry, SD “Buck” and Robert, and three sisters, Thelma Vosika, Ruth Zibell and Irene Stillwell.
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