Martin Rasmussen age 86, rural Hazel, died in a care center at Yankton on Tuesday afternoon, December 27, 2016
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 11:00 AM with visitation beginning at 9AM in the Furness Funeral Home Chapel at Clark with The Reverend Mindy Ehrke officiating. Dorothy Fuller will be the pianist. Burial will be private.
A luncheon will follow services in the Furness Funeral Home reception area.
He was born in Vienna, SD on January 7, 1930 to Martin Lawrence, Sr. and Nellie Johanna Spilde.
He was raised around Vienna and Garden City as a youth and graduated from the eighth grade. Once in a while he’d quote a line from “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer that he was made to memorize in school and then he’d say “and I don’t even like trees!”
Later he was sent to live with relatives in Illinois or Minnesota, or he’d stay with the folks he was sent to work for.
He met his future bride at her folk’s place in Watertown, SD when he went there to buy a horse from her dad. Martin was trying the horse out when it started bucking and headed towards a clothes line where Frances was hanging sheets. She flopped a sheet at the horse to stop it coming because she didn’t want to have to re-do all that laundry because some guy couldn’t ride a horse! Martin was bucked off.
He married Frances Emma Hanks on June 14, 1949. And they held hands all their lives together.
Martin has seen a great deal of change in this world during his life. He lived through an era unmatched in technical development. From working with a horse and plow to tractors that can guide themselves, from cars you hand crank to start to those with remote starters, from phones you cranked to those you carry in your pocket, from woodstoves to microwaves – an ever changing world taking him farther from his youth and leaving him yearning for things that can never be again.
Martin worked many different jobs throughout his life. He was a farm hand, a ranch hand, and a fireman in the Air Force. He also worked for Boeing in Washington, for the Watertown Rendering Company, laid brick for the train depot, and plumbed, wired and roofed various buildings in Watertown. He set up trailer houses around this state and worked a lot of years in grain elevators in Oregon and South Dakota. And he drove semi-truck for a while after retiring because that was something he always wanted to do.
While he held many jobs in many states, the one he truly wanted to have been good at was being a Dad. He never thought he was. He remarked many times that he wished he had been better. He tried very hard to change himself, but he was a good dad. He did the best he was able and like all parents, had to learn the job as his children grew. Mistakes were made- that’s part of life. He loved all his children dearly and was proud of the people they had become. The best thing any father can do for his children is to love their mother and that he did.
Martin truly and deeply loved his wife Frances who proceeded him in death but never left his heart. Also proceeding him in death were his parents and siblings Gertrude Rasmussen, Lillian Burt, Leslie Rasmussen, Helen Puro, Roy Rasmussen, Ruth Alexander, Harold Rasmussen and Leland Rasmussen.
He is survived by his ten children; Beverly Tubb, Nunda, SD; Leland Rasmussen, Fayetteville, NC; Kay Wolke, Salem, OR; Dianne McRoden, Sturgis, SD; Dolly Rasmussen, Hayti, SD; Susan Wilson, Milwaulkie, OR; Reuben Rasmussen, Hubbard, OR; Darlene Rasmussen, Hazel, SD; Steven Rasmussen, Nashville, NC; Sally Tyson-Hall, Portsmouth, VA; and his sisters Nellie McLean and Joyce Miscke of Grand Rapids, MN.
He was my friend and my protector and I will miss him. But I know there will come a day when I will get to once again say, “Hi Dad!”
- Furness Funeral Home
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 11:00 AM with visitation beginning at 9AM in the Furness Funeral Home Chapel at Clark with The Reverend Mindy Ehrke officiating. Dorothy Fuller will be the pianist. Burial will be private.
A luncheon will follow services in the Furness Funeral Home reception area.
He was born in Vienna, SD on January 7, 1930 to Martin Lawrence, Sr. and Nellie Johanna Spilde.
He was raised around Vienna and Garden City as a youth and graduated from the eighth grade. Once in a while he’d quote a line from “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer that he was made to memorize in school and then he’d say “and I don’t even like trees!”
Later he was sent to live with relatives in Illinois or Minnesota, or he’d stay with the folks he was sent to work for.
He met his future bride at her folk’s place in Watertown, SD when he went there to buy a horse from her dad. Martin was trying the horse out when it started bucking and headed towards a clothes line where Frances was hanging sheets. She flopped a sheet at the horse to stop it coming because she didn’t want to have to re-do all that laundry because some guy couldn’t ride a horse! Martin was bucked off.
He married Frances Emma Hanks on June 14, 1949. And they held hands all their lives together.
Martin has seen a great deal of change in this world during his life. He lived through an era unmatched in technical development. From working with a horse and plow to tractors that can guide themselves, from cars you hand crank to start to those with remote starters, from phones you cranked to those you carry in your pocket, from woodstoves to microwaves – an ever changing world taking him farther from his youth and leaving him yearning for things that can never be again.
Martin worked many different jobs throughout his life. He was a farm hand, a ranch hand, and a fireman in the Air Force. He also worked for Boeing in Washington, for the Watertown Rendering Company, laid brick for the train depot, and plumbed, wired and roofed various buildings in Watertown. He set up trailer houses around this state and worked a lot of years in grain elevators in Oregon and South Dakota. And he drove semi-truck for a while after retiring because that was something he always wanted to do.
While he held many jobs in many states, the one he truly wanted to have been good at was being a Dad. He never thought he was. He remarked many times that he wished he had been better. He tried very hard to change himself, but he was a good dad. He did the best he was able and like all parents, had to learn the job as his children grew. Mistakes were made- that’s part of life. He loved all his children dearly and was proud of the people they had become. The best thing any father can do for his children is to love their mother and that he did.
Martin truly and deeply loved his wife Frances who proceeded him in death but never left his heart. Also proceeding him in death were his parents and siblings Gertrude Rasmussen, Lillian Burt, Leslie Rasmussen, Helen Puro, Roy Rasmussen, Ruth Alexander, Harold Rasmussen and Leland Rasmussen.
He is survived by his ten children; Beverly Tubb, Nunda, SD; Leland Rasmussen, Fayetteville, NC; Kay Wolke, Salem, OR; Dianne McRoden, Sturgis, SD; Dolly Rasmussen, Hayti, SD; Susan Wilson, Milwaulkie, OR; Reuben Rasmussen, Hubbard, OR; Darlene Rasmussen, Hazel, SD; Steven Rasmussen, Nashville, NC; Sally Tyson-Hall, Portsmouth, VA; and his sisters Nellie McLean and Joyce Miscke of Grand Rapids, MN.
He was my friend and my protector and I will miss him. But I know there will come a day when I will get to once again say, “Hi Dad!”
- Furness Funeral Home
Martin Rasmussen age 86, rural Hazel, died in a care center at Yankton on Tuesday afternoon, December 27, 2016
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 11:00 AM with visitation beginning at 9AM in the Furness Funeral Home Chapel at Clark with The Reverend Mindy Ehrke officiating. Dorothy Fuller will be the pianist. Burial will be private.
A luncheon will follow services in the Furness Funeral Home reception area.
He was born in Vienna, SD on January 7, 1930 to Martin Lawrence, Sr. and Nellie Johanna Spilde.
He was raised around Vienna and Garden City as a youth and graduated from the eighth grade. Once in a while he’d quote a line from “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer that he was made to memorize in school and then he’d say “and I don’t even like trees!”
Later he was sent to live with relatives in Illinois or Minnesota, or he’d stay with the folks he was sent to work for.
He met his future bride at her folk’s place in Watertown, SD when he went there to buy a horse from her dad. Martin was trying the horse out when it started bucking and headed towards a clothes line where Frances was hanging sheets. She flopped a sheet at the horse to stop it coming because she didn’t want to have to re-do all that laundry because some guy couldn’t ride a horse! Martin was bucked off.
He married Frances Emma Hanks on June 14, 1949. And they held hands all their lives together.
Martin has seen a great deal of change in this world during his life. He lived through an era unmatched in technical development. From working with a horse and plow to tractors that can guide themselves, from cars you hand crank to start to those with remote starters, from phones you cranked to those you carry in your pocket, from woodstoves to microwaves – an ever changing world taking him farther from his youth and leaving him yearning for things that can never be again.
Martin worked many different jobs throughout his life. He was a farm hand, a ranch hand, and a fireman in the Air Force. He also worked for Boeing in Washington, for the Watertown Rendering Company, laid brick for the train depot, and plumbed, wired and roofed various buildings in Watertown. He set up trailer houses around this state and worked a lot of years in grain elevators in Oregon and South Dakota. And he drove semi-truck for a while after retiring because that was something he always wanted to do.
While he held many jobs in many states, the one he truly wanted to have been good at was being a Dad. He never thought he was. He remarked many times that he wished he had been better. He tried very hard to change himself, but he was a good dad. He did the best he was able and like all parents, had to learn the job as his children grew. Mistakes were made- that’s part of life. He loved all his children dearly and was proud of the people they had become. The best thing any father can do for his children is to love their mother and that he did.
Martin truly and deeply loved his wife Frances who proceeded him in death but never left his heart. Also proceeding him in death were his parents and siblings Gertrude Rasmussen, Lillian Burt, Leslie Rasmussen, Helen Puro, Roy Rasmussen, Ruth Alexander, Harold Rasmussen and Leland Rasmussen.
He is survived by his ten children; Beverly Tubb, Nunda, SD; Leland Rasmussen, Fayetteville, NC; Kay Wolke, Salem, OR; Dianne McRoden, Sturgis, SD; Dolly Rasmussen, Hayti, SD; Susan Wilson, Milwaulkie, OR; Reuben Rasmussen, Hubbard, OR; Darlene Rasmussen, Hazel, SD; Steven Rasmussen, Nashville, NC; Sally Tyson-Hall, Portsmouth, VA; and his sisters Nellie McLean and Joyce Miscke of Grand Rapids, MN.
He was my friend and my protector and I will miss him. But I know there will come a day when I will get to once again say, “Hi Dad!”
- Furness Funeral Home
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 11:00 AM with visitation beginning at 9AM in the Furness Funeral Home Chapel at Clark with The Reverend Mindy Ehrke officiating. Dorothy Fuller will be the pianist. Burial will be private.
A luncheon will follow services in the Furness Funeral Home reception area.
He was born in Vienna, SD on January 7, 1930 to Martin Lawrence, Sr. and Nellie Johanna Spilde.
He was raised around Vienna and Garden City as a youth and graduated from the eighth grade. Once in a while he’d quote a line from “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer that he was made to memorize in school and then he’d say “and I don’t even like trees!”
Later he was sent to live with relatives in Illinois or Minnesota, or he’d stay with the folks he was sent to work for.
He met his future bride at her folk’s place in Watertown, SD when he went there to buy a horse from her dad. Martin was trying the horse out when it started bucking and headed towards a clothes line where Frances was hanging sheets. She flopped a sheet at the horse to stop it coming because she didn’t want to have to re-do all that laundry because some guy couldn’t ride a horse! Martin was bucked off.
He married Frances Emma Hanks on June 14, 1949. And they held hands all their lives together.
Martin has seen a great deal of change in this world during his life. He lived through an era unmatched in technical development. From working with a horse and plow to tractors that can guide themselves, from cars you hand crank to start to those with remote starters, from phones you cranked to those you carry in your pocket, from woodstoves to microwaves – an ever changing world taking him farther from his youth and leaving him yearning for things that can never be again.
Martin worked many different jobs throughout his life. He was a farm hand, a ranch hand, and a fireman in the Air Force. He also worked for Boeing in Washington, for the Watertown Rendering Company, laid brick for the train depot, and plumbed, wired and roofed various buildings in Watertown. He set up trailer houses around this state and worked a lot of years in grain elevators in Oregon and South Dakota. And he drove semi-truck for a while after retiring because that was something he always wanted to do.
While he held many jobs in many states, the one he truly wanted to have been good at was being a Dad. He never thought he was. He remarked many times that he wished he had been better. He tried very hard to change himself, but he was a good dad. He did the best he was able and like all parents, had to learn the job as his children grew. Mistakes were made- that’s part of life. He loved all his children dearly and was proud of the people they had become. The best thing any father can do for his children is to love their mother and that he did.
Martin truly and deeply loved his wife Frances who proceeded him in death but never left his heart. Also proceeding him in death were his parents and siblings Gertrude Rasmussen, Lillian Burt, Leslie Rasmussen, Helen Puro, Roy Rasmussen, Ruth Alexander, Harold Rasmussen and Leland Rasmussen.
He is survived by his ten children; Beverly Tubb, Nunda, SD; Leland Rasmussen, Fayetteville, NC; Kay Wolke, Salem, OR; Dianne McRoden, Sturgis, SD; Dolly Rasmussen, Hayti, SD; Susan Wilson, Milwaulkie, OR; Reuben Rasmussen, Hubbard, OR; Darlene Rasmussen, Hazel, SD; Steven Rasmussen, Nashville, NC; Sally Tyson-Hall, Portsmouth, VA; and his sisters Nellie McLean and Joyce Miscke of Grand Rapids, MN.
He was my friend and my protector and I will miss him. But I know there will come a day when I will get to once again say, “Hi Dad!”
- Furness Funeral Home
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