Louise M. Lydic

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Louise M. Lydic, 82, of Chester, passed away on Sunday, November 18, 2012, at the Dells Nursing and Rehab Center in Dell Rapids. Funeral services will begin at 1:00 P.M. Wednesday, November 21, 2012, at St. Peters Lutheran Church, Wentworth, SD. Interment will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, rural Chester. Visitation will begin at 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, with the family present at 5:00 P.M., and a prayer service beginning at 7:00 P.M., at the Minnehaha Funeral Home, Dell Rapids.

Louise Marie Lydic was born on February 11, 1930, to Selmer and Eleanora (Nelson) Granum in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She was baptized on December 3, 1939.

After graduating from Washington High School in 1948, she worked at Morrell’s until her marriage to William (Bill) Lydic on September 7, 1951. They farmed near Crooks, SD, and then moved to a farm near Chester, SD, in 1955. After their retirement they moved into Chester and Louise worked at the library and was a member of Senior Citizens. They later moved to Orchard Hills in Dell Rapids, SD, where she lived until she became a resident of Dells Nursing and Rehab Center in October of 2012.

Louise had been a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Chester where she had taught Sunday School and was a member of LWML and Altar Guild. After the church closed in Chester, she became a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Wentworth, SD.

Louise is survived by her children, Luanna (Llyn) Shuck, Colton, SD, Nancy (Darrel) Presuhn, Madison, SD, and Ken (Dawn) Lydic, Chester, SD. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren, her sister Lavonne Dafoe, Sioux Falls, SD, sisters-in-law Marilyn Granum, Sioux Falls, SD, Mary (Randy) Newcomer, Mitchell, SD, and Patricia (George) Skelton, Casa Grande, AZ, and brothers-in-law George (Violet) Lydic, Denver, CO, LeRoy (Tammy) Lydic, Sioux Falls, SD, along with many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill, her parents, five brothers and one sister, Allen, Melvin (Bud), Edwin (Eddie), Raymond, Orville, and Florence Berke.

Her faith and her family were extremely important to her, as she was to her family. She will be greatly missed.