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Loretta Metzinger Cunningham

Birth
Letcher, Sanborn County, South Dakota, USA
Death
22 Nov 2009 (aged 94)
Wessington Springs, Jerauld County, South Dakota, USA
Burial
Woonsocket, Sanborn County, South Dakota, USA Add to Map
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#correction by Jay Swenson from some Census forms I looked up her maiden name is Metzinger and her mothers maiden name is VandeVoorde *

Loretta Cunningham, 94, Woonsocket, died Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, at Avera Weskota Memorial Center, Wessington Springs.


Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Wilfrid's Catholic Church, Woonsocket, with the Rev. Jim Friedrich officiating. Burial will be in St. Wilfrid's Catholic Cemetery, Woonsocket.
There will be a 7:30 p.m. prayer service today at Basham Funeral Chapel, Woonsocket.

She was born on Oct. 7, 1915, in Letcher to John and Celina (Metzinger) VandeVoorde.

On Jan. 4, 1932, she married Robert Cunningham in Artesian.

They worked together, painting and shingling around the community.

She is survived by a son, Robert and Ruth Cunningham, Mitchell; a daughter, Carole Funk and husband Lowell, Woonsocket; 10 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, several great-great-grandchildren and a sister, Ann Wacker, Mitchell.

She was preceded in death by her husband, a daughter, Cleone Fenske and husband Ervin; her parents, her stepfather, a sister, Marie; and a brother, Sylvester.
#correction by Jay Swenson from some Census forms I looked up her maiden name is Metzinger and her mothers maiden name is VandeVoorde *

Loretta Cunningham, 94, Woonsocket, died Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, at Avera Weskota Memorial Center, Wessington Springs.


Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Wilfrid's Catholic Church, Woonsocket, with the Rev. Jim Friedrich officiating. Burial will be in St. Wilfrid's Catholic Cemetery, Woonsocket.
There will be a 7:30 p.m. prayer service today at Basham Funeral Chapel, Woonsocket.

She was born on Oct. 7, 1915, in Letcher to John and Celina (Metzinger) VandeVoorde.

On Jan. 4, 1932, she married Robert Cunningham in Artesian.

They worked together, painting and shingling around the community.

She is survived by a son, Robert and Ruth Cunningham, Mitchell; a daughter, Carole Funk and husband Lowell, Woonsocket; 10 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, several great-great-grandchildren and a sister, Ann Wacker, Mitchell.

She was preceded in death by her husband, a daughter, Cleone Fenske and husband Ervin; her parents, her stepfather, a sister, Marie; and a brother, Sylvester.


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