Elaine Fuhrer | 1929 - 2024
Obituaries-Mobridge / Posted Feb 22, 2024 | 3:58 PM / 162 views
Funeral services for Elaine Fuhrer, 94, of Mobridge will be at 10 AM, Monday, February 26, 2024, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Mobridge. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge. Visitation will start at 4 PM Sunday with a prayer service at 6 PM at the funeral home. Elaine passed away Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at the Walworth County Care Center in Selby.
Elaine (Miller) Fuhrer was born to Charley & Ina Miller of Firesteel, South Dakota on June 1, 1929. She spent her early childhood on the farm with her parents and attended grade school at the Fitzgerald School north of Firesteel. She attended high school in Timber Lake and graduated as Salutatorian of her class in 1948. Following graduation, she taught one school term at a country school north of Firesteel.
Elaine was married to Gilbert Fuhrer on June 26, 1949. They made their home in Isabel, South Dakota. They were blessed with the birth of their first daughter Twila Lynnae on October 4, 1951, their second daughter, Sheryl LaRee was born on November 4, 1953, and their son, Mark Carl Fuhrer on April 5, 1960. While they lived in Isabel, she worked for the Isabel Co-Op Grocery Store, the Siepman locker plant in Isabel and for the Moreau Grand Electric in Timber Lake.
They moved to Mobridge in 1960, she worked for First National Bank, Glader Motors, KOLY Radio, Kohlman, Bierschbach and Anderson CPA’s, DeFoort Distributing and Pederson Sales. She retired in 1996 and found it necessary to care full-time for her husband Gilbert who had Parkinson’s Disease.
Elaine was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Mobridge and enjoyed being in the group of ladies that knit the prayer shawls for shut-ins and those that needed encouragement. She was also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary in Mobridge.
After the death of her husband, Gilbert in 2009, she spent most of her time working in her yard and spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She loved attending the school functions of basketball, volleyball, and the school concerts. She also enjoyed attending exercise classes at the Senior Citizen Center.
Elaine is survived by her son, Mark (Wanda) Fuhrer of Mobridge, grandchildren, Stacey Eisemann, Danika Swanson, Landon Swanson, Carli (Trent) Goetz, and Brady Fuhrer, great grandchildren, Miranda (Levi) Jensen, Madison Eisemann, Michael Lilly, Hunter Brick, and Cole Goetz, great-great grandchild, Jovie Jensen, sons-in-law, John Swanson of Sioux Falls and Ken Keller of Mobridge, sister-in-law, Joyce Miller, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Gilbert, two daughters, Twila Swanson and Sheryl Keller, sister, Dorothy Miller, and brother, Jerry Miller.