Charles J. Shafranek, 89, of Letcher, died Saturday, April 2, 2016, at Avera Queen of Peace Hospital, Mitchell
Funeral services were 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 6, at Letcher Community Church in Letcher. Visitation was from 9 a.m. until the time of the service. Burial with military rites was in Butler Cemetery in rural Letcher.
Charlie was born on Dec. 7, 1926, to Edna (Parsons) and Charles Shafranek, Sr., at the family farm northeast of Letcher. He grew up in the Letcher area and graduated from Letcher High School in 1945.
After high school, he joined the Army and served in Korea. Following his discharge from the military, he returned to work on the family farm. In the early 1960s, he became a partner in ABC Tractor Salvage with AC and Olen “Bus” Ettswold until a fire destroyed the business and forced his retirement in 2009.
Charlie was a member of the Tormey-Stach American Legion. In his spare time, Charlie enjoyed fishing and helping Andy and Bus with their race cars and spending time with his extended family, Bus and Melanie Ettswold, Angie and Matt Meier, Ellie and Maggie, Andy and Melissa Ettswold, Parker and Wyatt, Jerome Evans, Clara Wise and many other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers, Dale in 2015, and Gerald in 2010.

    Rev. James M. Joyce, 94, of Sioux Falls, died Thursday, March 31, 2016.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 7 at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Sioux Falls with Bishop Paul J. Swain as celebrant. Interment will be at St. Bernard Cemetery in Redfield at 3:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon. Visitation began at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 at George Boom Funeral Home in Sioux Falls with the family present to greet friends from 5-7 p.m. A liturgical wake service followed the visitation at 7 p.m.
James Michael Joyce was born Sept. 23, 1921, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Aberdeen. The son of Raymond and Sabina (née Knox) Joyce, he graduated from high school in Sykeston, N.D., and attended Notre Dame junior college in Mitchell, where he earned a teaching certificate. James then spent one year teaching in a country school before enrolling in seminary at St. Bernard’s preparatory seminary in Sioux Falls before attending St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., where he received his priestly formation.
On March 13, 1948, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Most Reverend William O. Brady, Bishop of Sioux Falls, at Holy Family Church in Mitchell. Upon ordination Father Joyce served as an associate pastor at Sacred Heart in Aberdeen and St. Agnes inVermillion. Later, he was assigned as Priest Secretary, serving Bishop Brady and later Bishop Hoch in this same capacity.
Drawing upon his training and professional experience as an educator, Father Joyce was then assigned to serve on the faculty at Bishop Heelan High School in Sioux City before being appointed superintendent of the newly-constructed Bishop O’Gorman High School.  In 1962, Bishop Hoch charged Father Joyce to begin efforts in Aberdeen to construct the new Roncalli High School while also serving as pastor at All Saints in Mellette.  He went on to serve at St. Agatha in Howard before assignment in 1968 as the pastor at Holy Spirit, Mitchell.
Father Joyce would later serve as pastor at St. Wilfrid, Woonsocket, St. Nicholas, Tea, and Risen Savior, Brandon. In 1984 after the sudden death of Monsignor Delahoyde and while pastor in Tea, Father Joyce was appointed chancellor by Bishop Dudley, an appointment he would hold for three years.  He also served on the Presbyteral Council, the Clergy Education Committee and the Diocesan Building Commission at varying times in his 50 years of assigned ministry. In 1998 and after serving 12 years as pastor in Brandon, Father Joyce retired from active ministry. While in retirement, Father Joyce remained very active with the Marriage Encounter movement.
He is survived by his sisters, Sister Sabina Joyce, PBVM of Aberdeen, and Rose Anne (Edward) Colella of Sioux Falls; and multiple nieces, nephews and their children.
Father Joyce was preceded in death by his parents, Raymond and SaBina Joyce; two sisters, Sister Eleanor Joyce and Bernadine Knapp; and four brothers, Dr. John, Thomas, Raymond and Ronald Joyce.
Memorials may be directed to the Joyce Family Endowment Scholarship at Presentation College in Aberdeen.

    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.