Irene S. Goben | 1926 - 2022
Obituaries-Mobridge / Posted Jun 25, 2022 | 7:36 AM / 546 views
Funeral services for Irene S. Goben, 95, of Glenham will be at 10:30 AM, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, at Lakeside Bible Church in Mobridge. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge. Visitation will start at 5 PM Tuesday with a prayer service at 7 PM at the funeral home. Irene passed away Thursday, June 23, 2022, at the Mobridge Regional Hospital.
Irene was born in Herreid, South Dakota on December 14, 1926, to John A. and Christina Schaeffer Sieler. She went to country school near Pollock, South Dakota until 1930 when the family moved back to Mound City, where she attended school there from third grade to her sophomore year of high school. She spent her junior year of high school at Java, South Dakota and then her senior year at Herreid and graduated from Herreid High School in 1945. She worked at a restaurant across the street from the train depot in Aberdeen, South Dakota where she met Roy Goben. They were married in Iowa on January 4, 1946 and had ten children during that marriage of 56 years which ended with Roy’s death in 2002.
Roy and Irene moved around to various states of Iowa, Missouri, and North Dakota following Roy’s jobs and finally settled in Mobridge, South Dakota. She worked at the Sereno Café in Mobridge for 10 years before moving to Glenham in 1971. There she worked as a cook at the Glenham school from 1973 until 1983 when the school closed. She then worked for the Wheel Restaurant until her retirement at the age of 78 in 2004. She remained living in Glenham, SD, until the time of her death on June 23, 2022.
She is survived by her children, Sheryl Goben, Cynthia (Hal) Stroot, Dale Goben, Ronald Goben, Robert (Jan) Goben, Gloria (Bob) Vaughn, Mercy (Michael) Bandy, Melanie (Rick) Campbell, Ann (Gary) Campbell. She was also matriarch of twenty grandchildren, thirty-eight great grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy, son, Terrance, and three grandchildren (Helen Beth Goben, Michael Goben, and Brian Goben), the sons-in-law (Dennis Baumann, Gary Campbell and Bob Vaughn), parents, (John and Christina), six brothers (Emanuel, Richard, Arnold, Leon, Lawrence, and LuVern), and six sisters (Martha, Mary, Esther, Lenora, Donna, and Norma).