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Donald Maurice WOONSOCKET — Donald E. Maurice, 79, of Woonsocket died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1995, at Queen of Peace Hospital in Mitchell. The funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Church in Woonsocket, with the Rev. Ger ald Thury officiating. Burial will be in St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Cem etery, with military rites. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, with a Scripture service at 8 p.m., at Basham Funeral Service in Woonsocket. Donald E. Maurice was born Nov. 30, 1915, at Emerson, Neb., to Joseph V. and Alvina C. (Dahms) Maurice. They moved to South Dakota in the early 1920s, where he attended the Berlin country school through the eighth grade. They later re turned to Emerson, where he did farm work. He entered the U.S. Army in August 1941, serving in the South Pacific. He was dis charged in July 1945. He then took machinist training at the eee Institute in Minneap olis. He married Florence A. Kolousek on April 19, 1951 at Crow Lake. They lived in Woon socket. He worked for Hinker Well Drilling, then for the San born County Highway Depart ment and then the South Dakota State Department of Transpor tation. He retired in 1980. He was a member of St. Wil frid’s Catholic Church, American Legion Post 29 in Woonsocket, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5548 in Wessington Springs. Survivors include his wife of Woonsocket, four daughters and their husbands, Theresa Mc Kenna of Mercer Island, Wash., Sheila and Thomas Levi of Rose mount, Minn., Glenda and Joel Sproat of Kill Devil Hills, N.C., and Barbara Maurice of St. Louis; six grandchildren; six sis ters, Lorraine Schroeder of Wessington Springs, Lucille McRoberts of Puyallup, Wash., Alice Severson of Redondo Beach, Wash., Elaine Beigh of Woonsocket, Carol Wells of Arte sian and Delberta Caulfield of Willow Lake; and three broth ers, Burdette of Sioux Falls, Cedric of St. Louis and Delwood of Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was preceded in death by his parents. Pallbearers will be Eugene, Craig and Kevin Maurice, Doug Caulfield, Gary Beigh and Mar vin Wells.
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Huron Plainsman
Huron, South Dakota, US
Thu, Mar 02, 1995
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