WAGNER John Ramsdell, 99, of Wagner, died Saturday, November 5, 2005, at Avera Yankton Care Center in Yankton, SD.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, November 10, 2005, at the United Methodist Church in Wagner. Burial will be in the ZCBJ Cemetery, rural Wagner with military honors.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. followed by a Prayer Service at 7 p.m. at the Crosby-Jaeger Funeral Home in Wagner.
John William Ramsdell was born December 18, 1905, to William Henry and Augusta (Olson) Ramsdell on the family's homestead southeast of Armour, South Dakota, the third of five boys. John passed away November 5, 2005, at Avera Yankton Care Center in Yankton, SD. He attained the age of 99 years, 10 months and 18 days.
John enjoyed a robust life farming with horses and the early mechanized machinery. He attended school in the Armour area and went into an agricultural program at the University in Brookings. His dad sent him to California to save a fruit ranch and he worked for a time at a tuberculosis sanitarium there prior to moving to Chicago during the 1930s where he worked at the Ford plant before finding his calling in the wholesale meat industry for Armour and Company. He served in the Army during World War II as a meat inspector in the Chicago area. He met Alyce Ferne Gibbs of Newcastle, Nebraska and they were married after the war, when they returned to Wagner and he became the managing partner of Crabb's Frosty Food Locker until he retired in 1971. He farmed into his eighties and was enthusiastic about hunting and fishing throughout his life. After Ferne's death in 1984 he married Marjorie Davis of Beardstown, Illinois, and they enjoyed several years of travel and visiting friends and family until Marge's death in 1993.
John was president of the Wagner school board during the school expansion in the 1950s and was president of the Wagner Chamber of Commerce during the difficult era of the highway routing controversy in the 1960s, representing what he believed to be in the ultimate best interest of both the business and the farming community. He was active in the American Legion, the Izaak Walton League, the boat club, Rotary International and the South Dakota Locker Association. He was proud of the many awards the Locker received over the years with his smoked meat exhibits at the Tri-State and National Locker Convention.
John was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers: Henry and wife Lil of Shannon, Illinois, Harold and wife Esther of Winlock, Washington, Harry and wife Arleen of Avon, and Paul of Wagner; his son, Bruce in 1970; his wife, Ferne in 1984; his wife, Marge in 1993; and his beloved horse, Kaiser and a companion coyote, and many of his hunting, fishing, farming and fixing companions.
John is survived by son, Jack and wife Kathryn (Nedved) and children, Taylor, Autumn and Aden of Springfield, daughter, Stefanie and her daughter, Gaia of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and son, Dale and his daughters, Farah, Soraya, Mona and Tahireh and their mother Fari of Redlands, California; and Paul's wife Mildred and his first wife Eleanor Lippolt, both of Wagner, and Harry's first wife, Helen Rauscher of San Jose, CA.
(Yankton Press & Dakotan, Yankton, SD, November 9, 2005)
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, November 10, 2005, at the United Methodist Church in Wagner. Burial will be in the ZCBJ Cemetery, rural Wagner with military honors.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. followed by a Prayer Service at 7 p.m. at the Crosby-Jaeger Funeral Home in Wagner.
John William Ramsdell was born December 18, 1905, to William Henry and Augusta (Olson) Ramsdell on the family's homestead southeast of Armour, South Dakota, the third of five boys. John passed away November 5, 2005, at Avera Yankton Care Center in Yankton, SD. He attained the age of 99 years, 10 months and 18 days.
John enjoyed a robust life farming with horses and the early mechanized machinery. He attended school in the Armour area and went into an agricultural program at the University in Brookings. His dad sent him to California to save a fruit ranch and he worked for a time at a tuberculosis sanitarium there prior to moving to Chicago during the 1930s where he worked at the Ford plant before finding his calling in the wholesale meat industry for Armour and Company. He served in the Army during World War II as a meat inspector in the Chicago area. He met Alyce Ferne Gibbs of Newcastle, Nebraska and they were married after the war, when they returned to Wagner and he became the managing partner of Crabb's Frosty Food Locker until he retired in 1971. He farmed into his eighties and was enthusiastic about hunting and fishing throughout his life. After Ferne's death in 1984 he married Marjorie Davis of Beardstown, Illinois, and they enjoyed several years of travel and visiting friends and family until Marge's death in 1993.
John was president of the Wagner school board during the school expansion in the 1950s and was president of the Wagner Chamber of Commerce during the difficult era of the highway routing controversy in the 1960s, representing what he believed to be in the ultimate best interest of both the business and the farming community. He was active in the American Legion, the Izaak Walton League, the boat club, Rotary International and the South Dakota Locker Association. He was proud of the many awards the Locker received over the years with his smoked meat exhibits at the Tri-State and National Locker Convention.
John was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers: Henry and wife Lil of Shannon, Illinois, Harold and wife Esther of Winlock, Washington, Harry and wife Arleen of Avon, and Paul of Wagner; his son, Bruce in 1970; his wife, Ferne in 1984; his wife, Marge in 1993; and his beloved horse, Kaiser and a companion coyote, and many of his hunting, fishing, farming and fixing companions.
John is survived by son, Jack and wife Kathryn (Nedved) and children, Taylor, Autumn and Aden of Springfield, daughter, Stefanie and her daughter, Gaia of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and son, Dale and his daughters, Farah, Soraya, Mona and Tahireh and their mother Fari of Redlands, California; and Paul's wife Mildred and his first wife Eleanor Lippolt, both of Wagner, and Harry's first wife, Helen Rauscher of San Jose, CA.
(Yankton Press & Dakotan, Yankton, SD, November 9, 2005)
WAGNER John Ramsdell, 99, of Wagner, died Saturday, November 5, 2005, at Avera Yankton Care Center in Yankton, SD.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, November 10, 2005, at the United Methodist Church in Wagner. Burial will be in the ZCBJ Cemetery, rural Wagner with military honors.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. followed by a Prayer Service at 7 p.m. at the Crosby-Jaeger Funeral Home in Wagner.
John William Ramsdell was born December 18, 1905, to William Henry and Augusta (Olson) Ramsdell on the family's homestead southeast of Armour, South Dakota, the third of five boys. John passed away November 5, 2005, at Avera Yankton Care Center in Yankton, SD. He attained the age of 99 years, 10 months and 18 days.
John enjoyed a robust life farming with horses and the early mechanized machinery. He attended school in the Armour area and went into an agricultural program at the University in Brookings. His dad sent him to California to save a fruit ranch and he worked for a time at a tuberculosis sanitarium there prior to moving to Chicago during the 1930s where he worked at the Ford plant before finding his calling in the wholesale meat industry for Armour and Company. He served in the Army during World War II as a meat inspector in the Chicago area. He met Alyce Ferne Gibbs of Newcastle, Nebraska and they were married after the war, when they returned to Wagner and he became the managing partner of Crabb's Frosty Food Locker until he retired in 1971. He farmed into his eighties and was enthusiastic about hunting and fishing throughout his life. After Ferne's death in 1984 he married Marjorie Davis of Beardstown, Illinois, and they enjoyed several years of travel and visiting friends and family until Marge's death in 1993.
John was president of the Wagner school board during the school expansion in the 1950s and was president of the Wagner Chamber of Commerce during the difficult era of the highway routing controversy in the 1960s, representing what he believed to be in the ultimate best interest of both the business and the farming community. He was active in the American Legion, the Izaak Walton League, the boat club, Rotary International and the South Dakota Locker Association. He was proud of the many awards the Locker received over the years with his smoked meat exhibits at the Tri-State and National Locker Convention.
John was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers: Henry and wife Lil of Shannon, Illinois, Harold and wife Esther of Winlock, Washington, Harry and wife Arleen of Avon, and Paul of Wagner; his son, Bruce in 1970; his wife, Ferne in 1984; his wife, Marge in 1993; and his beloved horse, Kaiser and a companion coyote, and many of his hunting, fishing, farming and fixing companions.
John is survived by son, Jack and wife Kathryn (Nedved) and children, Taylor, Autumn and Aden of Springfield, daughter, Stefanie and her daughter, Gaia of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and son, Dale and his daughters, Farah, Soraya, Mona and Tahireh and their mother Fari of Redlands, California; and Paul's wife Mildred and his first wife Eleanor Lippolt, both of Wagner, and Harry's first wife, Helen Rauscher of San Jose, CA.
(Yankton Press & Dakotan, Yankton, SD, November 9, 2005)
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, November 10, 2005, at the United Methodist Church in Wagner. Burial will be in the ZCBJ Cemetery, rural Wagner with military honors.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. followed by a Prayer Service at 7 p.m. at the Crosby-Jaeger Funeral Home in Wagner.
John William Ramsdell was born December 18, 1905, to William Henry and Augusta (Olson) Ramsdell on the family's homestead southeast of Armour, South Dakota, the third of five boys. John passed away November 5, 2005, at Avera Yankton Care Center in Yankton, SD. He attained the age of 99 years, 10 months and 18 days.
John enjoyed a robust life farming with horses and the early mechanized machinery. He attended school in the Armour area and went into an agricultural program at the University in Brookings. His dad sent him to California to save a fruit ranch and he worked for a time at a tuberculosis sanitarium there prior to moving to Chicago during the 1930s where he worked at the Ford plant before finding his calling in the wholesale meat industry for Armour and Company. He served in the Army during World War II as a meat inspector in the Chicago area. He met Alyce Ferne Gibbs of Newcastle, Nebraska and they were married after the war, when they returned to Wagner and he became the managing partner of Crabb's Frosty Food Locker until he retired in 1971. He farmed into his eighties and was enthusiastic about hunting and fishing throughout his life. After Ferne's death in 1984 he married Marjorie Davis of Beardstown, Illinois, and they enjoyed several years of travel and visiting friends and family until Marge's death in 1993.
John was president of the Wagner school board during the school expansion in the 1950s and was president of the Wagner Chamber of Commerce during the difficult era of the highway routing controversy in the 1960s, representing what he believed to be in the ultimate best interest of both the business and the farming community. He was active in the American Legion, the Izaak Walton League, the boat club, Rotary International and the South Dakota Locker Association. He was proud of the many awards the Locker received over the years with his smoked meat exhibits at the Tri-State and National Locker Convention.
John was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers: Henry and wife Lil of Shannon, Illinois, Harold and wife Esther of Winlock, Washington, Harry and wife Arleen of Avon, and Paul of Wagner; his son, Bruce in 1970; his wife, Ferne in 1984; his wife, Marge in 1993; and his beloved horse, Kaiser and a companion coyote, and many of his hunting, fishing, farming and fixing companions.
John is survived by son, Jack and wife Kathryn (Nedved) and children, Taylor, Autumn and Aden of Springfield, daughter, Stefanie and her daughter, Gaia of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and son, Dale and his daughters, Farah, Soraya, Mona and Tahireh and their mother Fari of Redlands, California; and Paul's wife Mildred and his first wife Eleanor Lippolt, both of Wagner, and Harry's first wife, Helen Rauscher of San Jose, CA.
(Yankton Press & Dakotan, Yankton, SD, November 9, 2005)
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