Albert George Woods, age 34, of Winfred, died Friday, May 22, 2020, at his home. Memorial services will be held at a later date. A full obituary is forthcoming.

Wilbur Gehrels, age 96, of Madison, passed away May 19, 2020, at the Royal C. Johnson Veterans Memorial Hospital in Sioux Falls. Funeral services will be 10:00 AM, Friday, May 22, 2020, at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Wentworth. Burial will follow at the Rose Hill Cemetery at Wentworth. Visitation will be 5-7 PM, Thursday, at the Ellsworth Funeral Home. To protect the health of others, the family kindly respects condolences from a distance if anyone feels they shouldn’t attend. Wilbur...

Lois Moffatt, age 88, of Mount Vernon, WA, died Wednesday, May 6, 2020, in Montana. Per her request, no services will be held. Eva Lois (McBride) Moffatt was born February 16th, 1932, in the high plains of South Dakota to Forrest and Ina Merle McBride, the youngest of four children. She grew up working her family’s Half Box M ranch with her father where they raised Hereford cows. Attended high school in Sturgis, SD, and college in Minneapolis, MN. She was always more at home in...

Steven "Steve" Graham, age 61, of Madison, died Saturday, May 2, 2020, at his home due to metastatic melanoma. A wake service will be held at a later date. Steve was born September 7, 1958 and grew up in Kansas and Ohio. He received his BS from the University of Kansas in 1980 and his PhD in Computer Science in 1988. While at KU he met his co-conspirator, Tammy Powell, and they married in August 1978. Steve worked at various technology companies and start-ups in...

Betty Jean Bast, 95, of Vermillion, SD, entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Private graveside services will be held. She was born November 8, 1924, in Sheldon, IA, to Robert and Anna (Johnson) Fischer.  Betty spent most of her childhood in Milbank, SD, and graduated from Milbank High School in 1943. At the age of 16 she started work as a telephone switchboard operator for Northwestern Bell, and except for ten months spent in the Cadet Nurse Corps, she worked as an...

Alma G. (Hofer) Rames, age 103, formerly of Madison, died Tuesday, March 31, 2020, passed peacefully with loved ones near at the Good Samaritan Society in Canton. Due to the viral pandemic her commital has taken place at Rosehill Cemetery in Scotland, SD and memorial services will be held at a later date at Trinity Lutheran Church in Madison. Alma Georgia Hofer, the oldest of 10 children, was born March 22, 1917 in Olivet, SD to Paul B. and Olive (Walker) Hofer. She graduated from...

Albert Scott Woods, age 61, of Madison, died Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at Ava’s House under hospice care, in Sioux Falls. Memorial services will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church at a later date. Albert was born on July 25th 1958, to Phyllis Jean Hirtes and Albert Woods in Artesia, CA. He attended Santa Fa High School in Santa Fa Springs, CA, where he meet his wife Rachel Gonzales. The couple were married on April 29th, 1978. To this union, three children were born; Jim, Stacy, and...

Clifford Gonzales, age 59, of Madison, formerly of California, died Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at the Madison Regional Health System. Arrangements are pending.

Darlene J. Renner, age 94, formerly of Madison, SD, died Tuesday March 17, 2020 at Majestic Bluffs Nursing Home in Yankton, SD after a short bout with pneumonia. A celebration of life service will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church in Madison at a later date. Burial will be held at Graceland Cemetery in Madison. Due to current healthcare precautions, a private funeral service will be held for immediate family only.  Extended family and friends will be invited to a memorial service at a...

Duane (Dewey) Stanley Hyland, age 69, passed away February 18, 2020 at Madison Regional Hospital surrounded by his loved ones after a brave, 9 year battle with multiple myeloma. Funeral services will be 1:30 PM, Saturday, February 22, 2020, at Grace Lutheran Church at Nunda. Burial will follow at Prairie Queen Cemetery rural Nunda. Visitation will be 5-7 PM, Friday, at the Ellsworth Funeral Home with a prayer service at 7. Duane was born to Stanley Duane and Eunice (Alverson) Hyland on...