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Thursday, January 15, 2009 NEWS rapidcityjournal.com TODAY'S OBITUARIES Rita Anderson, 82 Belle Fourche Lucille Boreson, 90 Winner Barbara England, 70 Winner Kathryn Kozel, 90 Pierre Milan Gilbert Mattson, 54 Custer Dorothy Plocek, 94 Mott, N.D. Frances A. Red Feather, 54 Pine Ridge Norma Schanzenbach, 78 Selby Floyd Vincent Simunek, 80 Hot Springs Frances A. Red Feather PINE RIDGE Frances A. Red Feather, 54, Pine Ridge, died Tuesday, Jan.

13, 2009, at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Survivors include a son, Martin J. Red Feather, Pine Ridge; six daughters, Holly Red Feather, Amanda Red Feather, Candace Red Feather and Jennifer Warrior, all of Pine Ridge, Elizabeth Parham, Omaha, and Andreana Red Feather, Sioux Falls; three brothers, Lawrence Red Feather, Robert Red Feather Sr. and Quincy Red Feather, and two sisters, Lucille Red Feather and Teresa Red Feather, all of Pine Ridge; 21 grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren. A two-night wake will begin at noon today at Billy Mills Hall in Pine Ridge.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at the hall, with Charles McGaa officiating. Burial will 1 be at the Red Feather Family Cemetery in Pine Ridge. Sioux Funeral Home of Pine Ridge is in charge of arrangements.

Floyd Vincent Simunek HOT SPRINGS Floyd Vincent Simunek, 80, Hot Springs, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, at his home. Survivors include his wife, Darlene Simunek, Hot Springs; 10 children, Belinda Gunvohrdahl, Burke, Steve Simunek, Kelly Simunek and Floyd Jr. "Chris" Simunek, all of Hot Springs, Diane Harris and Scott Simunek, both of Orlando, Perry Simunek, Gillette, Sandy Portz, Pierre, Marcia Kazmer, Spearfish, and Lori Simunek, North Hollywood, four sisters, Margaret Spinar, Rapid City, Mary Berry, San Clemente, Bernadine Forseyth, Los Angeles, and Delores San Juan Capistrano, 17 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Wake services will be at 7 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 19, at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Hot Springs. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan.

20, at the church, with the Rev. Peter Kovarik officiating. Burial will follow at Evergreen Cemetery in Hot Springs. McColley's Chapels of the Hills in Hot Springs is in charge of arrangements. An online guestbook is available at www.mccolleys chapels.com.

Barbara England WINNER Barbara England, 70, Winner and formerly of White River, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, at Winner Regional Healthcare Center Long Term Care Facility. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. CST Friday, Jan.

16, at Mason Funeral Home in Winner. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at White River Community Events Center. Burial will be at White River Cemetery.

Milan Gilbert Mattson CUSTER Milan Gilbert Mattson, 54, Custer, died Sun- day, Jan. 11, 2009, at his home. Survivors include his wife, Pamela Mattson, Custer; his parents, Clarence and Myrtle Mattson, Hill City; three sons, Daniel Mattson, Gillette, and Shaun Mattson and Cole Mattson, both of Custer; two brothers, Clarence Mattson, Mattson, Gillette; and three Spokane, Terry sisters, Roberta Burnham, Sand Point, Idaho, Evonne Cameron, Phoenix, and Tina Briggs of Montana. A celebration of life memorial will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan.

18, at 25156 Little Italy Road in Custer, with the Rev. Terry Mattson officiating. McColley's Chapels of the Hills in Custer is in charge of arrangements. An online guestbook is available at www.mccolleys chapels.com. Today's services Averi Miracle Bunch 1:30 p.m.

at Oak Ridge Cemetery near Deadwood Brooks Ann DuBray 2 p.m. at American Horse School in Allen Mary Lee Eisenbraun 2 p.m. at St. Bernard's Catholic Church in McLaughlin June Kellogg Norman 11 a.m. CST at Presbyterian Church in Onida Mable A.

Povandra 2 p.m. at Fidler-Isburg Funeral Chapel in Spearfish William Ressl 1 p.m. at Behrens-Wilson Funeral Home in Rapid City Ivan Joseph Stedillie 1 p.m. at Christian Life Center in Belle Fourche Dorothy Plocek MOTT, N.D. Dorothy Plocek, 94, Mott and formerly of Spearfish, S.D., and Lemmon, S.D., died Wednesday, Jan.

7, 2009, at Good Samaritan Nursing Center in Mott. Survivors include a son, David Plocek, Thunder Hawk, S.D.; four daughters, Betty Haase, Lemmon, Joyce Burk, Dallas, Texas, and Dorothy "Dottie" Neuharth and Mary Lou Ray, both of Summerfield, four brothers, Albert Fried, Mott, Ted Fried, Meadow, S.D., Bert Fried, Sturgis, S.D., and Herb Fried, Shadehill, S.D.; three sisters, Bertha Cooper, Bison, S.D., Lillian Bohnet, Bismarck, and Ruth Friez, Glendale, 12 grandchildren; 18 great and one great-great-grandchild. Visitation will be from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan.

16, at Good Samaritan Nursing Center in Mott, and from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

A memorial has been established to Good Samaritan Nursing Center in Mott. An online guestbook is available at www.evanson jensenfuneralhome.com. Kathryn Kozel PIERRE Kathryn Kozel, 90, Pierre, died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009, at Golden Living Center in Pierre. Survivors include her husband, Robert Kozel, Pierre; one daughter, Roberta Frasch, Pasco, two brothers, Sam Smith and Hugo Smith, and one sister, Mary Vincent, all of Pierre: two grandchildren; and three great -grandchildren.

Services will be at 10 a.m. CST Friday, Jan. 16, at Feigum-VanLith Funeral Home in Pierre. Burial will follow at Riverside Cemetery in Pierre. An online guestbook is available at www.feigumvan lith.com.

Norma Schanzenbach SELBY Norma Schanzenbach, 78, Selby, died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009, at the Bowdle Hospital. Survivors include one son, Jay Schanzenbach of Box Elder. A family service will be at 7 p.m. today at UCC Church in Selby.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 16, at the church in Selby. Burial will be at Selby Memorial Gardens. Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge is in charge of arrangements.

Lucille Boreson WINNER Lucille Boreson, 90, Winner, died Monday, Jan. 12, 2009, at Winner Regional Healthcare Center Long Term Care Facility. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. CST Sunday, Jan.

18, with a 7 p.m. prayer service, at Mason Funeral Home in Winner. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 19, at United Methodist Church in Winner.

Burial will be at Winner Cemetery. Photos by Kristina staff Emily Weber, 5, and her grandfather, Bill Weber, welcome home Emily's father, Lt. Col. John Weber, on Wednesday at the Rapid City Regional Airport. SOLDIERS: Ceremony scheduled for Feb.

20 at Camp Rapid. From Page A1 Fifteen soldiers, including Weber and Lakner, spent 1 nine months in Afghanistan with the South Dakota Army National Guard Embedded Training Team "Coyote One." The team was stationed in northern Afghanistan to train and mentor Afghan police and army forces. Ten soldiers from the team returned to South Dakota last week, and another soldier was scheduled to arrive Wednesday in Sioux Falls. Two soldiers volunteered to extend their deployments by three and nine months. "It's good to have him home safe and sound," Lakner's daughter, Candee, said.

"He's a hero to all of us." For Weber, a full-time Guard employee and the team's commander, 2008 marked his first deployment in a 23-year career. During the deployment, Weber, his wife, Meredith, and two children, Joe and Emily, 'Coyote One' deployment I Conducted more than 500 combat patrols, traveling more than 50,000 miles throughout Afghanistan. 1 Oversaw the graduation of more than 400 Afghan National Police DEATHS ELSEWHERE Clyde Charles HOUMA. La. Clyde Charles, the first inmate to use a federal civil rights law to sue for DNA testing that not only cleared him of a Louisiana rape conviction but also sent his brother to prison for the same crime, has died.

He was 55. Charles died Jan. 7 of natural causes at his home on Shrimper's Row, relatives told The Courier newspaper in Houma. They said his health problems included diabetes that required dialysis. Charles was first inmate to sue under the federal Civil Rights Act to get his DNA compared to DNA samples held as evidence, said Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, a legal center Rita Anderson BELLE FOURCHE Rita Anderson, 82, Belle Fourche, died Tuesday, Jan.

2009, at her home. Survivors include a son, the Rev. Almer "Andy" Anderson, Belle Fourche; two daughters, Arnette Anderson, Billings, and Donna Anderson, Butte, a sister, Mary Ann Prouty, Rolla, N.D.; eight grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald, in 1976. Visitation will be from noon to 8 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 16, at Kline Funeral Chapel in Belle Fourche, and for one hour before services, which will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at First Baptist Church in Belle Fourche. Burial will be at Holy Cross Cemetery in 1 Butte.

An online guestbook is available at www.klinefuneral chapel.com. Master Sgt. Phil Lakner was greeted by well as the Patriot Guard Riders, at the 5, talked as often as they could on the Internet using video chat. On Wednesday, the kids greeted Weber with an almost constant chorus of "Dad. Dad, Dad, Dad." "What we did was a challenge, but what she did with the family was even more challenging." Weber said.

"Luckily, we had a lot of family and friends," Meredith Weber said. "I don't think we would have made it without them." Joe stuck close to Weber, excitedly describing his new by the numbers patrolmen while managing logistics for the Afghan National Police School. Mentored two Afghan National Police districts through a professional validation program. specializing in wrongful conviction cases. After Charles was sentenced to life in prison for the 1981 rape of a nurse who identified him as her attacker, he pleaded with authorities to conduct DNA testing against evidence collected in the case.

Although investigators had semen samples from the victim as evidence, the technology to compare DNA samples didn't exist during Charles' trial. Terrebonne Parish authorities agreed to have Charles' DNA tested after Scheck, a former O.J. Simpson defense attorney, filed the civil rights lawsuit in 1999. When the DNA samples didn't match, Charles was soon exonerated and released from prison just before Christmas that year. The investigation then Journal obituary policy The Rapid City Journal offers obituaries as a way to inform friends throughout the area about the death of a person.

If you have questions about the Journal's obituary policy, you may call the Journal's obituary desk at 394-8420 between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. In Our Care: Patrick Tracy: Services will be 1PM, Sat. Jan. 17th at Bethel Assembly of God Church.

William Ressl: Funeral services will be 1PM Thu. Jan. 15th at the Funeral Home. Betty May (Bascom) Karst: Memorial services will be 10PM, Sat. Jan.

17th at the First United Methodist Church. Ella Mann: Arrangements are pending. BEHRENS WILSON FUNERAL HOME CREMATORY SINCE 1879 Rapid by family and fellow Guard members, as the airport. light saber toys and making plans to watch "Star Wars" with Dad. "When are we going to do that?" Weber asked.

"Probably tonight," Joe replied in a heartbeat. Minutes before the flight from Denver arrived, National Guard members, including the state's adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Steven Doohen, began filing up the escalator into the waiting area. Public affairs officer Maj.

Brendan Murphy said it was a show of support for 1 Provided artillery-fire direction control support for the first indirect fire mission conducted by the 4th Kandak, Afghan National Army. I Trained a commando unit of the focused on his brother, Marlo, who was convicted of the nurse's rape in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison. Stanley M. Heng LINCOLN, Neb. Retired Lt.

Gen. Stanley M. Heng, a former commander of the Nebraska National Guard, has died. He was 71. Heng died Monday at a hospice in Lincoln following a lengthy illness, according to a news release from Nebraska National Guard spokesman Lt.

Col. Bob Vrana. Heng enlisted in the Army in January 1956, and began his career with the Nebraska National Guard in June 1960. He was selected as adjutant general in 1987 by then-Gov. Kay Orr and retired in fellow soldiers.

Sgt. Maj. Larry Zimmerman of Rapid City was among those who returned to South Dakota last week and was at the airport Wednesday to welcome back Weber and Lakner. In January 2008, the team was sent off at a ceremony at Fort Meade's Riding Hall gymnasium by friends, family and speakers including Doohen and Gov. Mike Rounds.

During the nine months in Afghanistan, five-man teams were assigned to the northeast, northwest and northcentral regions of the country, Zimmerman said. Before shipping out, the unit spent three months training at Fort Riley, Kan. "Even though I've only been home seven to 10 days, it's a whole new experience. It makes it even more important for me to be here," Zimmerman said. "I was part of it, but it's important to welcome a guy home who's been there 1 for 270 days or more." A larger homecoming ceremony is tentatively scheduled for Feb.

20 at Camp Rapid's Duke Corning Armory, Murphy said. Contact Emilie Rusch at 394-8453 or emilie.rusch@rapidcityjournal.com. Afghan National Army's 209th Corps and conducted the first three air-assault missions in the history of the Afghan National Army. -Source: South Dakota National Guard December 2000. Besides leading the Nebraska Army and Air National Guard, Heng also served as the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency director.

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