Rapid City Journal from Rapid City, South Dakota • 10

Monday, July 8, 2002 www.rapidcityjournal.com RAPID CITY JOURNAL Town made a miracle Jayne M. Hohn, 45 Rapid City Edith Irene Pountain, 83 Sturgis Arnold A. Huether, 57 Huron Helen M. Morrison, 83 Edgemont Lu Verne Heinz, 88 Custer Richard C. Geib, 74 Rapid City Bernyce I.

Schaefer, 78 Hot Springs Jennie L. Sly, 90 Sturgis Lois Gibson, 76 Rapid City Orville L. Hveem, 74 Rapid City Jayne M. Hohn RAPID CITY Jayne M. Hohn.

45, Rapid City, died July 5. 2002, at her home. Survivors include her parents. Marlin and Wilma Hohn, seven brothers and one sister. Arrangements are pending with Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City.

Edith Irene Pountain STURGIS Edith Irene Pountain, 83, Sturgis, died Saturday, July 6, 2002, at Sturgis Community Long Term Care Unit. Survivors include one brother, John Pountain, Lead; and numerous nieces, grandnieces and nephews. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 9, at Kinkade Funeral Chapel in Sturgis. Burial will follow at Bear Butte Cemetery.

Arnold A. Huether HURON Arnold A. Huether, 57. Huron, died Saturday, July 6, 2002, in Yankton. Survivors include his wife, Carol.

Huron; one son, Josh, Rapid City: two daughters, Heidi Huether, Huron, and Abby, Mankato, his mother. Dorothea Huether, Yankton; two brothers, Donald and Robert, both of Yankton; two sisters, Shirley Andersen, Gayville, and Dolores Olson, Rapid City; and one granddaughter. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., with a prayer service at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, July 9, at Kuhler Funeral Home in Huron. Services will be at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, July 10, at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, with the Rev. Joseph Holzhauser officiating. Burial will be at St. Martin's Cemetery.

Helen M. Morrison EDGEMONT Helen M. Morrison, 83, Edgemont, died Saturday, June 6, 2002, at her home. She was born Oct. 26, 1918.

in Ardmore, S.D., to Philip and Irna Roller. She was raised in Ardmore and attended Chadron State Teachers College. She married William E. Morrison on Aug. 9, 1939.

She lived in Helen the Edgemont Morrison area for 63 Helen Morrison years. She worked as office manager at the uranium mill, Mines Development, for 22 years. She was a member of St. James Catholic Church, St. James Altar Society, Bustness and Professional Women, Edgemont Senior Citizen Center.

Bridge Club, Tuesday Study Club and Pinochle Club. She was named Career Woman of the Year. Survivors include her husband, William Morrison; one son, James (Gwenda) Morrison of Rapid City: two daughters, Rhonda (Lee) Gillispie and Lola Morrison, all of Edgemont; one daughter-in-law, Teresa Morrison, Ainsworth. 12 grandchildren; and nine greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by one son, Bill Morrison her parents; two brothers; one sister; and one grandson.

A rosary service will be at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 9. at St. James Catholic Church in Edgemont. Services will be at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, July 10. at the church. Burial will be at Edgemont City Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her grandsons. McColley's Chapels of the Hills in Edgemont is in charge of arrangements.

The family suggests memorials to Edgemont Senior "Once Upon a Town" is the name of a book by Bob Greene, published by William Morrow Press, 2002. The subtitle is "The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen." Shortly after the United States entered World War II, on Christmas Day, 1941, the North Platte Canteen was established. The person mainly responsible for the establishment was Rae Wilson. Mrs. Wilson, a housewife and store clerk, wrote in the North Platte Bulletin: "I don't know how many went to meet the trains when the troops went thru our city Wednesday, but those who didn't should I say get back of our sons and other mothers' sons 100 per cent.

Let's do something and do it in a hurry! We can help this way when we can't help any other way." What the good citizens of North Platte and other towns and communities surrounding North Platte did was the miracle mentioned in this book's subtitle. They vowed to meet every troop train coming through North Platte on the Union Pacific Railroad, traveling both east and west, and give the soldiers and sailors a taste of home. They did this every day from Christmas 1941 until six months after the end of Today's services Floyd Crazy Thunder 10 a.m. at Loneman School in Oglala. Wayne Edwards 10 a.m.

at United Church of Christ in Spearfish. William Frerichs 10 a.m. at Kirk Funeral Home in Rapid City. Anna Gorsuch 10 a.m. at McColley's Chapels of the Hills in Hot Springs.

Warren Hunsley 10 a.m. at United Congregational Church of Christ in 1 Fort Pierre. Mowis Kills Back 11 a.m. at Porcupine School gym in Porcupine. Douglas Leigh 10 a.m.

at South Park United Church of Christ in Rapid City. James McCarthy 10 a.m. at Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Rapid City. Donald Nelson 1 p.m. at Kinkade Funeral Chapel in Sturgis.

Paul Sack 10:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Spearfish. Deraid Thompson 10 a.m. at First United Methodist Church in Rapid City.

Eugene Turbiville 10 a.m. at Community Bible Church in Camp Crook. Lu Verne Heinz CUSTER LuVerne Heinz, 88, Custer, died Saturday, July 6, 2002, at Colonial Manor. Survivors include her husband, Earl, Custer; and one brother, Allen Dunahee, Ojai, Calif. Visitation will be from 6 p.m.

to 8 p.m. today at McColley's Chapels of the Hills in Custer. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Hill City. Burial will be at Custer City Cemetery.

Richard C. Geib RAPID CITY Richard C. Geib, 74, Rapid City, died Saturday, July 6, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital. He served in the U.S. Air Force.

Survivors include his wife, Ellen Geib, Rapid City; one son, Robert Geib, Sunnyvale, one daughter, Carol Stork, Pierre; and two grandchildren. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., with Eastern Star and Masonic services at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 9, at Osheim-Catron Funeral Home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, at First United Methodist Church, with the Rev.

Doug Diehl officiating. Interment will be at Black Hills National Cemetery, with military honors provided by Ellsworth Air Force Base honor guard. A memorial has been established. Bernyce I. Schaefer HOT SPRINGS Bernyce Ida Schaefer, 78, of Hot Springs, passed away on July 7, 2002, at Fall River Hospital in Hot Springs.

She was born at the home place on Beaver Valley in Sheridan County, on October 18, 1923, to Clarence and Martha (Jansen) Gochnauer. She attended grade school at the North Beaver Rural School and three years of high school at the Assumption Academy in Chadron, graduating from the Rushville High School in Rushville, Neb. Bernyce worked at Pine Ridge, S.D., in the Indian Affairs Offices. During World War II, she went to Sidney, and worked at the ammunition supply depot, then to Portland, to work on the railroad. After the war, she spent some time in Chadron, then went to Arizona where she worked on the Apache Reservation.

While in Arizona, she met Allen Schaefer. They lived in Chadron where they were married on June 1, 1955. Then, they moved to Hot Springs and resided there since. Bernyce is survived by her husband, Allen Schaefer; three sisters, Mercades Dexter and Martha Keim, both of Chadron, and Agnes Bergess of Oelrichs, S.D.; one brother, Dick Gochnauer, of Glendo, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by both parents; three sisters, Marguerite Woods, Loretta Maples and Jeanette Chasek; and one brother, Leo Gochnauer.

A memorial service will be held at McColley's Chapel of the Hills at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10, 2002. Jennie L. Sly STURGIS Jennie L. Sly, 90, Sturgis, died Sunday, July 7, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.

Survivors include four nieces and nephews, Darcy Kuronen, Boston; Dennis Kuronen, Philadelphia; Gary Huffman, Eldorado Hills, and Kay Jung, Hawaii. Arrangements are pending with Osheim-Catron Funeral Home in Rapid City. RobERT A. MARTIN, P.C. ATTORNEy COUNSElOR AT LAW Revocable TRUSTS ASSET PROTECTION PRObATE MEMbER NEtwoRk of ESTATE PLANNING ATTORNEYS MEMbeR National Academy of EldER LAW ATTORNEYS -of -officE AppoiNTMENTS Available (605) 348-0784 E-mail: Helping you KIRK HOME FUNERAL celebrate the unique personality of a loved one.

Robert Broderick 1051 1 Mann. sot. aneral Director Kaput CaN SI 1608 the war in 1945. The people of western Nebraska did more than serve the military personnel who stopped in North Platte a cup of coffee and a doughnut. They lavished food and other niceties on them.

Several troop trains came through North Platte every day, and the canteen workers met every one of them. The peak day was a day when they served 7,000 soldiers and sailors. It is estimated that throughout the war, they served six million servicemen. As mentioned, communities other than North Platte contributed to the canteen. Here is what the people from the town of Moorfield contributed on one day when it was their turn: Twenty-five birthday cakes, dozen cupcakes, 149 dozen cookies, 87 fried chickens, 70 dozen eggs, quarts of salad dressing, dozen doughnuts, Lois Gibson RAPID CITY Lois Gibson, 76, Rapid City, died Sunday, July 7, 2002, at Rapid City Regional Hospital.

Survivors include one daughter, Sandra Magnavito, Rapid City; and two grandchildren. Arrangements are pending with Osheim-Catron Funeral Home in Rapid City. Orville L. Hveem RAPID CITY Orville L. Hveem, 74, Rapid City, died at his residence Saturday, July 6, 2002.

He was born Aug. 19, 1927, at Boyd, Minnesota, the son of Bernard and Elsa (Marquardt) Hveem. Orville married Phyllis Martin on Dec. 1, 1946 at Boyd, MN. The family moved to Rapid City in 1959 and Orville was employed with Tristate Milling and later Hubbard Milling, as a millwright for a number of years.

In 1972, he established his own business in grain elevator construction and repair, covering a five state area. He retired in 1987 due to failing health. Survivors include his wife, Phyllis Hveem, Rapid City; four sons, LeRoy Hveem and his wife, Becky, Arlington, Texas, Ronald Hveem and his wife, Sue, Randy Hveem and his wife, Brenda, and Duane Hveem and his wife, Kelly, all of Rapid City; two daughters, Nancy Steever and her husband, Jerry, Rapid City, and Cindy Wolf and her husband, Cal, Eagle Bend, Minnesota; 24 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his father, his mother, his stepfather, a brother and a sister. Visitation will be from 4 p.m.

until 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Osheim-Catron Funeral Home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Lord of Life Lutheran Church with Rev. Kemp Bryant officiating.

Interment will be at the Pine Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. A memorial has been established. Trust the best. Sweet Nobody sells more real estate than 1210 Jackson Bled Rapid (itv. SD 341 1300 20 pounds of coffee, 22 quarts of pickles, 22 pounds of butter and quarts of cream.

On another day, the Paxton community donated 52 dozen Easter eggs, 600 bottles of milk, 2,000 buns, six hams, 12 sheet cakes, one quart of chicken spread and three boxes of apples. Of course, this was in the days of food rationing for the country. Many canteen contributors gave up their sugar rations to donate to the canteen. A Mrs. Hazel Pierpoint, now 91, was the official cake baker for the canteen.

She baked hundreds of angel-food birthday cakes. Because regular eggs were in short supply, she used turkey eggs. The troops sometimes stopped for only 10 or 15 minutes. Canteen workers entered the cars, loaded down with baskets of sandwiches, chicken, cakes and other foods as well as coffee, drinks and magazines. If the troops had a little more time, they could disembark and enter the canteen itself.

There, they would find young ladies and high school girls ready to dance, mail letters and just talk for a few minutes. The high school girls started putting their names inside of popcorn balls they distributed to the servicemen. This resulted in considerable correspondence with servicemen stationed around the world and at least one marrage after the war. Bob Greene, author of "Once Upon a Town," returned to North Platte these many, years later to see what made that town so special. Of course, the canteen was no longer there, and neither was the depot that housed it.

In fact, he learned that passenger trains no longer serve North Platte only freight trains. He found several women, now mostly in their 80s, who remembered working at the canteen and making contributions to it. Both they and the several servicemen he tracked down who remembered stopping at the canteen grew tearfully nostalgic when talking about the canteen. Several of the servicemen said, "It was the best thing that happened to me during my service years." Not many years from now, the people who served the canteen and the soldiers and sailors who stopped there will be gone. But to the honor of North Platte, there was Upon a Town," and it was a miracle.

Walter Higbee is a retired college educator living in Spearfish. Write him at the Rapid City Journal, Box 450, Rapid City, SD 57709. Groundbreaking set for July 10 at Wakpa Sica An American Indian blessing and official groundbreaking ceremoFort Pierre ny will be held for the Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place at Fort Pierre, starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 10. The event will be at the intersection of state Highway 1806 and Fort Chouteau Road, which is one mile north of state Highway 34 going toward Oahe Dam.

A cultural workshop open to the public will be from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. that day at Pierre Indian Learning Center, 3001 East Sully Ave. in Pierre. It will be moderated 1 by Scott Jones, public-relations director for the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, with discussions led by Dennis Sun Rhodes and Dan Feidt of Amerindian Architects and exhibit designers Kate Roberts and John Lindell of Split Rock Studios.

The Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place will be built on land that has been returned in trust to the Sioux Nation tribes by Congress. It is intended to be a place where all people can gather to work for better cultural understanding and improved justice, according to a news release. The Reconciliation Place will also house the Sioux Nation Judicial Support Center, Mediation Center, Supreme Court, and Economic Development Center, as well serving as a place where tribes can gather to interpret tribal history, art and culture. Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen.

Tim Johnson, and Rep. John Thune, sponsored the $18 million effort authorized by Congress and signed into law in December 2000. The Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place will open in the summer of 2004 in conjunction with the bicentennial anniversary of the meeting between the Teton Sioux Brule Band of Lakota and Lewis and Clark, which occurred at this spot in 1804. The Reconciliation Place's cultural center and interpretive displays will tell that story from the native perspective. The facility also will help direct visitors to South Dakota's Indian reservations along the Native American Scenic Byway, according to the news release.

Man wanted for failure to appear A felony warrant has been Felony alert issued charging Randy Lane Schmit with failure to appear after his release on an original Anyone felony charge of fourth-offense observing driving under the influence. Schmit or Schmit is a 40-year-old knowing of his man, 5 feet, 11 inches tall, location is weighing 210 pounds. He has asked to not blue eyes, brown hair, tattoos approach him. on his left arm and scars on Contact the his chin, forehead, arms and Pennington right hand. County SherSchmit is believed to be in iff's Office at the Rapid City or surrounding 394-6117, the Randy Lane He is also known as Rapid City Schmit areas.

Andy Lane Schmit, Randy Police DepartLand Schmidt, Randell L. ment at 394-4131 or the nearSchmit and Randy Lynn est law enforcement agency if Schmit. you have any information. Fit Perfectly Judy Bauer 341-7071 In Our Care: Danielle A. Coggins Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m.

Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Rapid City, S.D. Visitation will be held from 5-10 p.m. Monday, July 8, 2002 st the church. Family and friends memorial services at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the church.

Bradley H. Plymate Services will be held at a later date in Ft. Frances, chrens ORTUARY.