Corinne Hauge, 78, of Mitchell, died Saturday, April 2, 2016, at Prairie View Care Center in Woonsocket.
Funeral services were Tuesday, April 5 at First Lutheran Church in Mitchell. Visitation was Monday evening, April 4 at Will Funeral Chapel. Burial was in Graceland Cemetery.
Corinne Hauge was born March 8, 1938, in Hurley to Otto and Minnie (Spaet) Luebbert. She began her schooling in Hurley. The family then moved to Yankton, where she graduated from Yankton High School. Corinne attended Concordia College in Seward, Neb., and received her teaching certificate. She started her teaching career as a parochial school teacher in Freeman.
She was united in marriage with Dennis Hauge on June 14, 1959, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Yankton. The couple made their home in Yankton until 1963 when they moved to Mitchell, where Corinne was a homemaker and raised their family. In 1979, she graduated from Dakota Wesleyan University with a bachelor’s degree in teaching. Corinne taught for 20 years at Letcher Public School before retiring.
Corinne was a member of First Lutheran Church in Mitchell and was involved in many church activities throughout the years, including teaching Sunday school, volunteering with the Altar Guild, delivering church bulletins, and delivering Meals on Wheels. Corrine enjoyed sewing, gardening, canning and baking.
Grateful for having shared her life are her husband, Dennis Hauge of Mitchell; two daughters, Susan (Patrick) Higgins of Fairfax Station, Va., and Laura (Shannon) Ahartz of Henderson, Nev.; and three granddaughters.
Corinne was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Richard Luebbert; and a sister, Gertrude Polster.