STRUB, William "Bill" Dell Rapids - William "Bill" Strub, 97, died Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2000, at the Terrace Manor Nursing Home in Dell Rapids. He was born Oct. 9, 1903, in Remsen, Iowa. He grew up and attended school in the area. He moved with his family to Dell Rapids in 1921. He married Dorothy Drummond on Oct. 27, 1927, in Dell Rapids. The couple lived in on a farm east of the town, then moved to another farm in 1946. His wife died in 1982. He lived on the farm until 1999, when he moved to the Terrace Manor Nursing Home. He was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church and the Dell Rapids Gun Club. Survivors include a sister, Leaf Sitzmann of LeMars, Iowa many nieces and nephews and special friends, Mel and Dolores Fiegen of Dell Rapids. Funeral Mass begins at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary Catholic Church in Dell Rapids with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation begins at noon today at Kahler Funeral Home in Dell Rapids with a wake service at 7:30 p.m. Contributed by Candi Horton - Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) - December 15, 2000       October 21, 1921 Rock county Herald contributed by Gary Boomgaarden Alfred Acheson Al Acheson, for many years a resident of and prominently identified with the affairs of Springwater township (Rock county Mn), died August 23, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Sarah Cochran, at Janesville, Wis. His death was sudden and was due to heart failure. The Herald is indebted to a friend for the following particulars in regard to his life, although refrences to the period of his residence in Rock county are lacking. "Alfred L. Acheson of Colton, SD died very suddenly of heart failure on Tuesday morning August 23, at 8:30 at the home of his sister, Mrs. Sarah Cochran, at Janesville, Wis." "He was the next to the youngest of ten children born to Mr and Mrs Wm. Acheson. He was born at Coldenham, Orange county, New York, on August 22, 1852. When eight years of age he came with his parents to Rock county, Wis. At the age of twenty one he took up a homestead near Garretson, SD. "In 1884 he was married to Claudia M. Pierce, and in 1900 they moved to his farm west of Colton, where Mrs. Acheson died on May 12, 1905. "For the past six years he had made his home at Long Beach, Calif. during the winter, spending the balance of his time at home and with relatives at Janesville, Evansville and Broadhead, Wisconsin." "He is survived by four children, Vera and Claude of Hay Springs, Neb., and Steve and Mabel, of Colton, SD. His daughter, Daisy, died on May 13, 1916. Also two sisters survive him. Mrs. Mary Harper of Broadhead, Wis. and Mrs. Sarah Cochran, of Janesville, Wis.; and one brother David Acheson of Evansville, Wis. He was buried in the Colton cemetery on August 26, 1921.     HOME ©2008 Genealogy Trails         Background courtesy of http://www.christiangraphics.org/