Memorial services were held September 10 at 10 a.m. at the Hosanna Restoration Church in Highmore, with Pastor Roger Day officiating. Interment of ashes ill be at a later date at the Ree Heights Cemetery.
ZeEtta K. Nation was born February 20, 1913, on a farm near Arroll in Texas County, Missouri, to John and Margaret (Franks) Nation. The Nation family moved to Illinois Township in Hyde County in November 1919, and moved to Ree Heights in 1927.
Zee attended high school at Ree Heights until her junior year, when she contracted scarlet fever and rheumatic fever, which nearly took her life.
She married Walter Frank Blaseg June 28, 1933 at the Presbyterian parsonage in Miller. To this union three children were born, Verlin Frank, Robert Walter and Marla Jean.
Zee was talented, capable lady whose job history included setting type at the Ree Heights Review newspaper; selling homes at the Anderson Trailer Sales in Ft. Pierre; running the Ree Heights Café; being caretaker at the Ree Heights Auditorium; and managing a Laundromat at Mitchell. Above all, she was a homemaker.
She was an active member of the Ree Heights Church and the Ree Heights Auxiliary. She helped with 4-H groups, Sunday School and Bible School. She was known for her crafts and for always being willing to give a hand with anything needed.
Zee is survived by her son, Verlin (Edith) of Wolsey and her daughter, Marla (Rem) McGeorge of Highmore; grandchildren, Robert Blaseg of Huron, Roberta Ransom of Parker, Paul Blaseg of Wolsey, and Justin (Joy) McGeorge of Highmore; three great-granddaughters, Natashia and Brittany Ransom of Parker, Rose McGeorge of Highmore, and one expected grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter; a son, Robert; seven brothers, Levi "Lee", James, John Jr. "Jeff", Leonard "Fritz", Clifford "bud", Ward and Frances "Frank"; four sisters Correine "Code" Riddle, Mabel Skogman, Dora Bennett and Minnie Phillips.
Miller Press, Miller, Hand, South Dakota, September 10, 2003
Courtesy of Barb Jones.
Memorial services were held September 10 at 10 a.m. at the Hosanna Restoration Church in Highmore, with Pastor Roger Day officiating. Interment of ashes ill be at a later date at the Ree Heights Cemetery.
ZeEtta K. Nation was born February 20, 1913, on a farm near Arroll in Texas County, Missouri, to John and Margaret (Franks) Nation. The Nation family moved to Illinois Township in Hyde County in November 1919, and moved to Ree Heights in 1927.
Zee attended high school at Ree Heights until her junior year, when she contracted scarlet fever and rheumatic fever, which nearly took her life.
She married Walter Frank Blaseg June 28, 1933 at the Presbyterian parsonage in Miller. To this union three children were born, Verlin Frank, Robert Walter and Marla Jean.
Zee was talented, capable lady whose job history included setting type at the Ree Heights Review newspaper; selling homes at the Anderson Trailer Sales in Ft. Pierre; running the Ree Heights Café; being caretaker at the Ree Heights Auditorium; and managing a Laundromat at Mitchell. Above all, she was a homemaker.
She was an active member of the Ree Heights Church and the Ree Heights Auxiliary. She helped with 4-H groups, Sunday School and Bible School. She was known for her crafts and for always being willing to give a hand with anything needed.
Zee is survived by her son, Verlin (Edith) of Wolsey and her daughter, Marla (Rem) McGeorge of Highmore; grandchildren, Robert Blaseg of Huron, Roberta Ransom of Parker, Paul Blaseg of Wolsey, and Justin (Joy) McGeorge of Highmore; three great-granddaughters, Natashia and Brittany Ransom of Parker, Rose McGeorge of Highmore, and one expected grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter; a son, Robert; seven brothers, Levi "Lee", James, John Jr. "Jeff", Leonard "Fritz", Clifford "bud", Ward and Frances "Frank"; four sisters Correine "Code" Riddle, Mabel Skogman, Dora Bennett and Minnie Phillips.
Miller Press, Miller, Hand, South Dakota, September 10, 2003
Courtesy of Barb Jones.
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