Clinton Tysdal |
| Posted 2009-09-08 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ September 20, 2006, p. A10. Clinton Tysdal, 80, of Sturgis, S.D., died Tuesday, Sept. 12 at the Fort Meade VA Hospital. Visitation will be Thursday (Sept. 14) from 8 a.m. until noon and will resume at 3:30 until 5:00 p.m. at the Kinkade Funeral Chapel in Sturgis and one hour prior to services on Friday at the church. Wake and Christian prayer services will be Thursday (Sept. 14) at 7:30 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Mass of Christian burial will be Friday (Sept. 15) at 11 a.m. with Father Arnold Kari officiating. Burial will follow at the Black Hills National Cemetery with military honors provided by the Sturgis Veterans Honor Guard. Memorials have been established to benefit the Enning Fire Department, St. Anthony's Church in Red Owl and the Red Owl Community Hall. Clinton Allen Tysdal was born April 28, 1926 at Vale, S.D., to Edmund and Bessie (Baldwin) Tysdal. He was raised in the Vale and Red Owl communities. Clinton graduated from Sturgis' St. Martins Academy in 1944. In 1945, he joined the U.S. Navy and served in the Pacific on a destroyer escort as quartermaster until his honorable discharge in 1952 at San Diego. He spent several months in San Diego before returning to South Dakota. Clinton married Lucille “Nunny” Simons at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Red Owl on April 20, 1949. They were blessed with two children, a son Wade and a daughter Wendi. They ranched at Red Owl for 46 years and moved to Sturgis in 1995. Clinton's passions included his Angus cattle herd, team roping and rodeo. He traveled the local roping and South Dakota Rodeo Association circuits for decades, and his horse followed him to Arizona to spend many winters roping there. He was a past director of the South Dakota Stock Growers Association. He was also a member of the Sturgis VFW. He was a community leader, highly respected by all and was always interested in giving a helping hand to the young ranchers that were just starting out. Clinton and Nunny spent 20 winters in Wickenburg, Ariz., where they have many special friends. Survivors include his wife Nunny of 57 years of Sturgis; son Wade Tysdal and his wife Sharon of Rock Rapids, Iowa; daughter Wendi Kranz and her husband Jeff of Kranzburg, S.D.; grandchildren Travis (Kasey) Tysdal of Ravenna, Neb., Beth Ann of Wall, S.D., and Trent Tysdal of Rock Rapids, Iowa; Kyle and Denise Kranz, both of Kranzburg, S.D.; two great-grandsons, Alex and Brendon Clinton Tysdal; special family friends Danny and Bobby Ann Arneson of Red Owl; Melvin Arneson of Enning and Lee Ann Trainor of Faith. Survivors also include seven brothers Pat, Tony, Ole, Pete, Jim, George and Johnny Tysdal; five sisters Betty Sund, Sally Munger, Mary Jane Lenhard, Sandra Begley and Candice Tysdal; also numerous nieces and nephews. Clinton was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers Russell, Joe, Rudy, Jerry and Michael. |
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