Philip SorensenSIOUX FALLS — Philip Sorensen,
33 of Sioux Falls, passed away onThursday, July 26, 2012, from in-juries sustained asthe result of a tragicaccident.
Philip LowelSorensen, son ofTerry and Cleo(Engen) Sorensen,was born on Janu-ary 2, 1979, in Yank-ton. He was raisedin Sioux Falls, at-tending Bancroft El-ementary, Whittier,and graduating from WashingtonHigh School in 1998. Philip was bap-tized at Spring Valley LutheranChurch and confirmed at HopeLutheran Church. He attendedSoutheast Technical Institute andgraduated with an Associate's De-gree in business and marketing in2001. He worked in sales at UltimateElectronics and then moved to Mon-tana for a position with Orion Foods
before returning to Sioux Falls. Hewas employed with Crimson FireEquipment and Sears, and was cur-rently employed with Syverson Tileand Stone.
Philip loved the outdoors andtime with friends and family. He en-joyed numerous activities includingkayaking, camping, rock climbing,fishing, bicycling, motorcycling,Frisbee golf, golfing, and wakeboard-ing. On the rare occasion he wasn'toutdoors, Philip would spend timetinkering in his shed. He was the"go-to guy" when it came to helpingothers, always generous and givingof himself. In keeping with his givingspirit and desire to continually helpothers, Philip was an organ donor.
Grateful for having shared hislife are his parents Terry and CleoSorensen; sister Megan Sorensen;niece Jayden, all of Sioux Falls, SD;grandmothers Lorraine Engen,Irene, SD, Rosezella Olson, Yankton,SD; and many other relatives andfriends. Philip was preceded indeath by his grandfathers SanfordEngen and Lowel Sorensen.
In lieu of flowers, the family re-quests that memorials be directedto the family for the establishmentof a scholarship fund in Philip'shonor.
Visitation with the family pres-ent will be from 5 to 7 p.m. with aprayer service beginning at 7 p.m.Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at HopeLutheran Church, 1700 South Cliff
Ave. A funeral service will begin at11 a.m. on Wednesday, August 1,2012, at Hope Lutheran Church withburial at the Elim Cemetery, Irene,SD.
For obituary and online registry,please visit www.millerfh.com
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There’s a good reason why you didn’t always play ‘dress up’ with your friends on Saturdays. His name was Dad. With him, even fishing was fun. And while you’ve idolized Dad your entire life, you’ll want to celebrate these times after his death.
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Diane PetersonDiane Peterson, age 71, of
Wakonda, SD passed away sur-rounded by her family at SacredHeart Hospital early Friday, July27, 2012.
Funeral Services will be 10a.m., Tuesday, July 31, 2012 atPleasant Valley LutheranChurch, Vermillion, SD with Rev.Anna M. Peck officiating. Burialwill be in Pleasant Valley Ceme-tery, Vermillion, SD.
Visitations will begin at 5p.m., Monday, July 30, 2012 atthe Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home& Crematory, Yankton, with aScripture service at 7 p.m. Visi-tations will resume one hourprior to the service at thechurch.
Diane (Mary Diane) Denigerwas born October 28th 1940 inYankton to Al and Louise(Keller) Deniger. Diane grew upin Yankton spending much ofher childhood at her GrandmaKeller’s and with GrandmaDeniger in Watertown. Diane at-tended Sacred Heart School andMount Marty College. She grad-uated with a teaching degree.
Diane taught inSpringfield andGayville. She mar-ried John Peter-son May 6th 1967,3 children wereborn to thisunion, Theresa,Meredith andChad.
Diane workedat Wakonda Heritage Manor, Sun-set Manor and Ability BuildingServices, she retired in 2010. Shewas a member of Pleasant ValleyLutheran Church and served onthe Wakonda American LegionAuxiliary.
Diane enjoyed reading“trashy” romance novels, playingcards and board games with herkids and grandchildren. Shewould never turn down an invita-tion for a trip to a casino. AfterDiane retired, she liked to coordi-nate lunch dates with her girl-friends from her farmingcommunity.
Diane is preceded in death byher mother and father, herbrother Robert Deniger, herbrother-in-law, Joe Johnson andher granddaughter, Jordan Peter-son.
Diane is survived by her hus-band John of 45 years ofWakonda; three children:Theresa and David Gustafson ofGreenbrier, AR, Meredith and JeffHunhoff of Yankton and Chad Pe-terson of Quitman AR; Grandchil-dren include Clay and AmandaGustafson and Reid, Kendra andWalker Hunhoff; one brother,Dennis Deniger of Lakeville IN;two brothers-in-law, Sterling (Vir-ginia) Peterson of Wakonda andStanley Peterson of Vermillion;three sisters-in-law, Laura John-son of Platte, Martha Peterson ofVermillion and Arlene (Tom) Ter-mes of Vermillion and manynieces and nephews.
Diane would like everyone toknow that she loved her grand-children and is very proud ofthem.
Memorials may be sent to theAvera Health Foundation.
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July 30, 2012
Adolf KrcilAdolf Krcil, age 80, of Yank-
ton,and formerly of Avon,passed away Friday, July 27,2012 at his daughter’s home inKearney, NE.
Mass of Christian Burial willbe 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 31,2012 at Sacred Heart CatholicChurch, Yankton with the Rev.Mark Lichter officiating. Burialwill be in St. Leo’s CatholicCemetery, Tyndall, SD, at ap-proximately 12:15 p.m. Tuesdayafternoon.
Visitations will be 3 to 7 p.m.Monday at the Opsahl-KostelFuneral Home and Crematory,Yankton with a prayer servicebeginning at 7 p.m. Visitationswill resume one hour prior tothe service at the church.
Pallbearers will be CollinPetri, Luke Krcil, Don Krcil,Terry Krcil, Tim Krcil andLawrence Furney.
Adolf Rudolf Krcil was bornAugust 5, 1931 near Dante, SD toAdolph and Pauline (Cahoy)Krcil. Adolf attended schoolthrough the 8th grade and thenworked on the family farm. On
November 14,1950 he marriedthe love of hislife, PhyllisRaabe. They livedby Dante, SD for 2years until pur-chasing a farmnear Avon, SD.Adolf and Phyllisfarmed from 1950
to 1984. In addition Adolfworked part time doing con-struction work in Wagner, SDand the night shift at C.R. Indus-tries, Springfield, SD running aforklift. In 1984 they moved toYankton, SD where they man-aged the Village Green Apart-ments. In addition he workeddelivering donuts for Jim Putz(1985); cleaned at Alumax(1985) and in 1987 startingworking at the State Hospital inYankton as a painter. He retiredfrom there in 2004. Also, in 1990Adolf and Phyllis began manag-ing the Carriage House Apart-ments where he remained untilhis death.
Adolf greatly valued his fam-ily friends and faith in God. Hislove and concern for his family
and his tenants was evident ineverything he did. He lovedbeing a “Grandpa” and spenttime with his grandchildren at-tending their events, playinggames (especially cards), fish-ing and giving them that special“Grandpa love” that only hecould give. Adolf and Phyllis at-tended many Polka dances andfestivals and loved travelingthroughout the country. He wasalso a skilled handyman who en-joyed fixing things.
Those grateful for havingshared his life include his son, Alof Yankton; daughter Kathy(Rick) Petri of Kearney, NE andGrandchildren Kaitlin and CollinPetri; Dani, Mikayla and AlexKrcil.
Adolf was preceded in deathby his wife; his parents; broth-ers, Henry and Joe; and daugh-ter-in-law Dorothy (Slama) Krcil.
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Steven McGovern,Son Of Former
S.D. Senator, DiesSIOUX FALLS (AP) — The
son of former South Dakotasenator George McGovern hasdied.
Miller Funeral Home ofSioux Falls released a state-ment Saturday afternoon say-ing 60-year-old StevenMcGovern died Friday after alengthy illness. He was 60.
The funeral home saysSteven McGovern died on hisbirthday under the care ofhospice.
Says sister Ann McGovern,“Steve had a long strugglewith alcoholism. We will allmiss him deeply, but aregrateful that he is now atpeace.”
Funeral arrangements arepending.
O B I T UA R I E S
Kerrey, Fischer Offer Ideas In Wake Of FiresOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The wild-
fires in north-central Nebraska haveprompted the state’s candidates forU.S. Senate to weigh in on proposalsthat could help Nebraska’s farmersand ranchers suffering not onlyfrom the fires, but record drought.
Both Democrat Bob Kerrey andRepublican candidate Deb Fischerhave toured the wildfire areas andcalled on Congress to pass the fed-eral farm bill, which includes disaster assistance for wildfires anddrought.
But they have different ideas about other ways to help. Kerreywants to speed up the process of offering low-interest loans to pro-ducers affected by drought and to expand the crop insurance pro-gram to include grazing land.
Fischer wants to waive conservation program obligations dur-ing severe drought and temporarily suspend weight and length re-quirements on vehicles transporting feed and livestock to disasterareas.
Iowa Town Turns To Internet To Save LeveeHAMBURG, Iowa — When floodwaters from the Missouri River
threatened to wash away the small southwestern Iowa town ofHamburg last summer, residents helped the Army Corps of Engi-neers to hastily build a makeshift levee to save it.
Now, the town of nearly 1,200 is asking for help from across thecountry to keep the levee.
Town leaders have turned to the Internet to make their plea forhelp, building a site — www.hamburglevee.com — to try to raisethe nearly $5 million needed to ensure the levee meets federal cer-tification standards. Short that, the city would have to spend morethan $1 million to tear the levee down.
The website notes that if 1.5 million give just $3 each to the ef-fort, the levee can be saved “for less than a latte.”
Gering Man Killed, 5 Hurt In Rollover CrashMINATARE, Neb. (AP) — One man is dead and another is behind
bars in a rollover crash near Minatare in western Nebraska.Scottsbluff radio station KNEB-AM reports that 21-year-old Tay-
lor Magdaleno, of Gering, died in the late Friday night crash. Inves-tigators say Magdaleno had been one of six men in a pickup thatwent off the road and rolled several times. Magdaleno died afterbeing thrown from the truck.
The five others were taken to a Scottsbluff hospital for variousinjuries. Only one remained hospitalized Saturday, but his injurieswere not believed to be life-threatening.
EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) — Family mem-bers of two missing Iowa girls are strugglingwith the unknowns while law enforcementcontinues searching for the young cousins.
The Des Moines Register reports that lifeis far from normal for the families of 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins and 10-year-old Lyric
Cook. The girls were last seen taking a bikeride in Evansdale on July 13.
Marsha Gilmer-Tullis with the NationalCenter for Missing and Exploited Childrensays the uncertainty about what happened toa missing child can be unbearable for fami-lies. Most of the 800,000 U.S. children re-
ported missing each year are found quickly.Elizabeth Collins’ mother, Heather Collins,
says she sits up at night hoping a police carwill drive up with her daughter.
Dan Morrissey, father of Lyric Cook, sayshe struggles with the unknowns.
BY DIRK LAMMERSAssociated Press
SIOUX FALLS — Broadband Internet accessshould start reaching more rural parts of thecountry after the Federal Communication Com-mission retooled a fund that has traditionallysubsidized rural phone service, the agency’schairman says.
But a South Dakota official says the new $4.5billion Connect America Fund is actually hinder-ing expansion, as companies in the state arebacking off from future fiber optic projects be-cause the companies aren’t sure how muchmoney they’ll get from the government.
The FCC in November adopted a set of re-forms aimed at bringing the $8 billion UniversalService Fund into the digital age. Its goal is to getbroadband to all of rural America by 2020, help-ing states such as South Dakota, where 44 per-cent of the rural population is without high speedInternet, said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
Genachowski said the Universal Service Fund,created in 1997, had become inefficient andwasteful, and it was leaving very large parts ofrural America behind. Its replacement, ConnectAmerica Fund, is an attempt to bring things up tospeed.
“It was a reform that was many years in themaking,” he said. “It was widely recognized forquite some time that the old USF program andonly focusing on telephone service was out ofdate.”
But Chris Nelson, chairman of the SouthDakota Public Utilities Commission, said ruraltelephone companies in the state that had beenexpanding their Internet service through new
fiber optic lines are scrapping future projects be-cause they don’t know how much the feds willhelp pay for the service.
“Rural phone companies are completing theirbroadband infrastructure expenditures this yearbut are making very, very few plans for next yearand literally nothing the year beyond that be-cause of the uncertainty the order has caused,”Nelson said.
Why the uncertainty? Companies are subsi-dized based on a complicated formula that con-siders how many customers are served in howlarge an area. Critics say that the changed for-mula means companies can’t predict up fronthow much money they’ll get back, and are there-fore hesitant to invest.
The Obama administration has identified uni-versal broadband as critical to driving economicdevelopment, producing jobs and expanding thereach of cutting-edge medicine and educationalopportunities.
The new fund, which continues to come froma surcharge on consumers’ and businesses’monthly phone bills, will underwrite the cost ofbuilding and operating high-speed Internet net-works in places that are too sparsely populatedto justify costly corporate investments. It in-cludes a $500 million “mobility fund” earmarkedto help build mobile broadband networks inareas where businesses won’t invest so travelerscan have continuous data coverage.
The FCC announced this past week that Cen-turyLink Inc. has accepted $140,000 in ConnectAmerica Fund money to provide broadband in180 locations in South Dakota. The companymust complete two-thirds of its new broadbandcommitments within two years, and the remain-der by the third year.
West River Cooperative Telephone Companyin Bison serves about 6,300 square miles ofnorthwest South Dakota from Lemmon to theNewell-Nisland area. The remote countryside hasabout one subscriber every two square miles,said general manager Jerry Reisenauer.
Since 2003, West River has been rolling outfiber optic coverage to bring DSL Internet serviceto its customers, but uncertainty over the FCC’sfunding formula is halting expansion that wouldallow it to provide higher speeds in some areas.
“We’ve put our construction on hold,” Reise-nauer said. “We’re trying to understand morefully how the act will impact us.”
FCC officials say the Universal Service Fundhad some flaws, allowing some companies tospend much more per customer than otherproviders and allowing some companies to un-dercharge customers for service.
Families Of Missing Iowa Girls Struggle With Worry
FCC, S.D. Split On Broadband Fund“Rural phone companies arecompleting their broadband in-frastructure expenditures thisyear but are making very, veryfew plans for next year and lit-erally nothing the year beyondthat because of the uncertaintythe order has caused.”
CHRIS NELSON
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