Obituaries

Curtis Bruce Lee, age 68, of Brookings, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, at the Brookings Hospital. Visitation will be from 5-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 30, at Eidsness Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 1, also at Eidsness Funeral Home with burial in…

Raymond Kurtz, 93, of Brookings, SD (currently residing in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa), passed away on Nov. 23, 2023, at the Pioneer Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, at Eidsness Funeral Home at 11 a.m. A time of…

Kathleen Dawn (Weeks) Fjellestad, age 78, passed away on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at Dougherty Hospice House. She was born Jan. 25, 1945, to Kenton and Dorothy (Rogness) Weeks in Hendricks, MN. Visitation is Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, from 5-7 p.m. at Miller Funeral Home Southside Chapel, 7400 S. Minnesota…

Eileen Ruth (Bauer) Remmele, age 101 passed away on Nov. 21, 2023. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, Nov. 26, at St. Johns Ev. Lutheran Church in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, beginning at 2 p.m. Burial will take place at the Echo City Cemetery following the memorial service.Eileen (Bauer) Remmele…

Janice Pickard, 75, of Dell Rapids, formerly Brookings, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, at the Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Nov. 25, at Bible Baptist Church in Brookings at 11 a.m. A time of fellowship will immediately follow the service.…

Chris Edward Caugherty passed away Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, at Sanford Hospital after a brief battle with cancer. He was 74. Eidsness Funeral Home in Brookings is helping the Caugherty family with arrangements.Chris was born on April 16, 1949 in Pittsburg, California and spent his childhood in the Los Angeles…

Lillian Louise Lambert (91 ) passed after a short illness.She was a resident of Brookings for four years, and of the ULC community for the last two years. Lillian spent most of her life near Morrisville, PA, and was from a family of 14 children. She loved her family fiercely…

Dorothy Jean Markus, 86, of Egan, died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, at Riverview Healthcare Center in Flandreau. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Monday, Nov. 27, at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Flandreau. Visitation will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 26, at Skroch…

A memorial service for Vern Lawrence will be held from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25, at First Lutheran Church, 337 Eighth St. in Brookings. All relatives and family friends are invited to attend and share memories of him.Vern, a Brookings native who graduated from Estelline High School in 1972, died…

Mary Hagan ended her journey at Prairie Lakes Hospital in Watertown on Nov. 15, 2023. No local services are being planned. Mary Virginia Hagan (Degnan) began her journey in St Louis Missouri on Christmas Eve of 1937. She was born of the marriage of Virginia Mamie Degnan (Foster) and William…