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Tuesday, December 20, 1988 the Rapid City Journal Today's obituaries Mary Jo Geary Mickey Bovee June L. Hibner Esther Larrabee Esther L. Swanson Harold E. Harnack June L. Hibner BISON Services for June L.

Hibner, 62, Bison, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church of Bison with the Rev. Doris Potter officiating. She died Sunday -at her home in Bison after a lengthy illness. Visitation will be 1 to 9 p.m.

Tuesday and Wednesday at the Ev. anson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon; 8 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home and an hour before the service at the church. Burial will be in the Chance Cemetery near Meadow. She was born May 30, 1926, at Bison to Hans and Mable (McCullum) Hylland.

She lived on the family farm until her family moved into Bison when she was 7. She attended school in Bison. She married Duane Hibner Aug. -5, 1941, at Baker, Mont. After their marriage, they ranched with his parents on Rabbit Creek for six years.

In 1948, they bought a ranch near Sorum and in 1953, they bought the Hibner Ranch. They moved to Bison in 1979 and started Insurance in 1981. Mrs. Hibner had been in poor health for the past nine years. She was a member of the Fairview Order of the Eastern Star No: 166, a past matron and, for 25 years, secretary of the order.

She was a former 4-H leader and also tooled leather. Survivors include her husband, Duane of Bison; two sons, Dewey and Bill Hibner, both of Faith; two Lumeda (Mrs. Raymond) Huber of Newcastle, -and Geraldine (Mrs. Jerry) Wells of Bison; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Meda LaBarge of Grant, and Beverly (Mrs.

Keith) Mortnson of Cottage Grove, Wis. Mary Jo Geary STURGIS Services for Mary Jo Geary, 55, who died Sunday at her Sturgis home, will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the F.O. Jolley Funeral Home in Sturgis. The Rev.

Harold Verhulst will officiate. Burial will be in the Black Hills National Cemetery. Visitation will be at the funeral home on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Thursday until service time.

A memorial has been established to the Disabled American Veterans. She was born June 6, 1933, in Knoxville, and raised in Chattanooga, Tenn. She married Robert R. Geary and has lived in South Dakota the past 20 years. She was a member of the DAV and Grace Lutheran Church in Sturgis.

Survivors include her husband of Sturgis; her mother, Mrs. Zula Morgan of Chattanooga; one son, Ernest Pate of Chattanooga; two daughters, Melba Guest and Wanda Wilcox of Chattanooga; one stepson, Mike 0'Geary of Stockton, one stepdaughter, Kathy Hale of Linden, and six grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father. Esther L. Swanson SIOUX CITY, Iowa Services for Esther L.

Swanson, 94, who died Saturday at a Sioux City hospital, have tentatively been set for Wednesday. Kinkade Funeral Chapel of Sturgis is in charge of arrangements. She was a longtime Sturgis resident and had been living in Elk Point, S.D., until she died. She is survived by. one son and two daughters.

A complete obituary will be published later. Mickey Bovee BELLE FOURCHE Services for former Pennington County extension home economist Mickey Robbins Bovee, 85, who died Saturday at Rapid City Regional Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Frost Sons Chapel in Belle Fourche. The Rev. Dick Ward of Rapid City will officiate.

Burial will be in Pine Slope Cemetery at Belle Fourche. A memorial has been established. She was born Nov. 12, 1903, at Manville, to Albert and Nellie Robbins and grew up in the Aladdin, area. After attending Spearfish Normal School and receiving a teaching certificate, she taught school for 12 years in Wyoming and South Dakota, then attended Colorado State College at Greeley and received a degree in home economics.

She worked for several years at Ipswich, then came to Rapid City in 1954 as Pennington County extension home economics agent. She was a member of the Zonta Club, Order of Eastern Star, the Bridgetts Club of Sturgis for 50 years, the South Dakota Home Economics Association and the Sojourners Travel Club. Among the survivors are one daughter, Faye Sankey Beach, Roy, two grandsons, Wayne Keith Sankey, Janesville, and Terry Sankey, Deadwood; and six greatgrandchildren. One brother preceded her in death. Harold E.

Harnack HILL CITY Services for Harold E. Harnack, 68, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Assembly of God Church of Hill City with the Rev. Tony Atkins officiating. Burial will be in the Hill City Cemetery.

Visitation will be from noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday and 8 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at Behrens Mortuary in Rapid City and prior to the services Wednesday at the church. A memorial has been established. Harnack died Sunday at Rapid City Regional Hospital.

He was born May 3, 1920, at Postville, Iowa, to John and Ella (Jacobs) Harnack and at the age of 7 moved to Ellis, where he grew up and farmed. On June 5, 1943, he married Zilpha Jackson at her family's farm near Sioux Falls. He worked as a salesman and lived in Wisconsin, Arizona and Ohio before moving to Hill City in 1978. He owned and operated the Trading Post Gift Shop in Hill City. Survivors include his wife, Zilpha; one daughter, Judith A.

Hickman of Cary, N.C.; one son, Robert Harnack, Hill City; four grandchildren; three brothers, Les Harnack of Omaha, Vernon Harnack of Beaver Creek, and John Harnack of Sioux Falls; and one sister, Helen Hoefert, Renner. He was preceded in death by one sister. Alabama to play at Frontier Days CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Alabama, one of country music's most popular bands, will headline for two nights at Cheyenne Frontier Days next summer, rodeo officials announced Monday. Also on the entertainment agenda are Reba McEntire, George Strait, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Ricky Van Shelton.

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Dave Finster officiating. Burial will be in Pine Slope Cemetery under direction of Frost Sons Funeral Home. A memorial has been established to the Belle Fourche, Health Care Center. She was born March 17, 1900, at Waubay to William and Margaret Johnson. On Oct.

21, 1920, she married Leo L. Larrabee at Webster. They lived in Washington State and in North Dakota before moving to Belle Fourche in 1929. She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge, was an active volunteer in the RSVP program and worked for many years at the Johnny Spaulding Cabin historic site and visitor information center, Surviving are a daughter-in-law, Peggy Larrabee, Belle Fourche; a son, Leo Larrabee Jr. and his wife Shirley, Belle Fourche; 'a sister, Sally Slack, Sacramento, six grandchildren; and 11 greatgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1968, a son James in 1977, three brothers and three sisters. Police officer at Box Elder receives honor BOX ELDER Box Elder police officer Todd Heinle received an award for valor Monday night for helping residents of an apartment building escape a fire on March 19. Heinle was presented the award from the Box Elder Volunteer Fire Department and the Box Elder Rural Fire Protection District at the City Council meeting. Heinle was on duty when the fire was reported at 305 Parker Drive in the Villa Apartments. According to a letter accompanying the award, Heinle entered the building with the manager and attempted to put out the fire with portable extinguishers.

The heavy smoke forced them to abandon that effort, but Heinle remained in the building to make a door-to-door check of the other apartments. Heinle was again driven from the building by the heavy smoke, but after he recovered, he crawled on the floor and up the stairs to 1 the second floor. He pounded on all the doors before again leaving the building. One family remained in one of the apartments and went the windows where they could get air until firefighters arrived and brought the family out of the building with the aid of breathing apparatus. Heinje, 23, has been with the department since September of 1986.

Opinions Express your opinion and discover how others feel on the editorial pages of the Journal. the RapidCityJournal South Dakota's Electoral College members sign electors are (left to right) Lt. Gov. Walter Dale documents indicating their support for Miller, Gov. George Mickelson and state Sen.

President elect George Bush. Assisting them (at Homer Harding of Pierre. (AP LaserPhi left) is Secretary of State Joyce Hazeltine. The State presidential electors cast their Joe Kafka PIERRE (AP) South Dakota's three Electoral College members unanimously voted Monday for President-elect George Bush in a brief ceremony at the state Capitol. "He is the most prepared president that we probably have ever had or at least certainly in this said Gov.

George Mickelson, a member of the Electoral College. Electoral College members nationwide met Monday in preparation for a final ceremony in a joint session of Congress Jan. 4, when Vice President Bush, as president of the U.S. Senate, will open the ballots and announce the results before formally declaring himself the president -elect. "As this process is completed and the electoral votes are canvassed through that process on a national basis, then the election results will be completed," Mickelson said.

South Dakota's electors were selected by the state Republican Party one for each U.S. senator votes for and congressman the state has. Votes cast for in South Dakota in fact president, for the Republican or Democratic slate of electors. Republican Bush defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis in the general election with 53 percent of the more than 91 million votes cast and carrying enough states to win 426 elec: toral votes to Dukakis' 112. In South Dakota, Bush received 53 percent of the popular vote, and Dukakis 47 percent.

Other South Dakota electoral members are Lt. Gov. Walter Dale Miller and state Rep. Debra Anderson of Sioux Falls. Anderson was unable to attend and was replaced by state Sen.

Homer Harding of Pierre, who was defeated last month in his re-election bid. "Homer was the (Hughes) county Bush chairman and a very early supporter of Bush for president," said Bill Protexter, state GOP executive director. Anderson was unable to attend the ceremony because of an annual family gathering in Florida, Protexter said. Mickelson said he was looking forward to working with the Bush administration. "He is basically a very honest, straightforward individual," Mickelson said of the presidentelect, "who has the basic values that you and I appreciate in our families and in our way of life." The governor said he especially was pleased that Bush had chosen U.S.

Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter to be U.S. agriculture secretary. Mickelson, who supported Sen. Bob Dole, for the GOP presidential nomination, said that was now "water over the dam." The ceremony took about 10 minutes and involved individual ballots for Bush and Vice President-elect Dan Quayle. Then vote certificates were signed for distribution to Bush, the South Dakota secretary of state's office, National Archives and U.S.

District Judge Donald Porter of Pierre. All states were required by law to hold their electoral meetings Monday. Mourners memorialize slain Denver barber DENVER (AP) Mourners held a simple memorial service outside the locked front door of Barber Bob's Barber Shop where owner Robert Willis was shot and killed by a man apparently angry about the haircut he received. Police estimate Willis was shot five times on Saturday, three hours after cutting the hair of the man suspected in his death. No arrests have been made.

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