Carol Powers, 77 of rural Wagner

Mass of the Christian Burial will be 10:30 am Saturday, April 25, 2009 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Wagner, with burial in the St. John Catholic Cemetery, rural Wagner, SD. Visitation will be at the Crosby-Jaeger Funeral Home in Wagner from 9 am to 5 pm Friday, followed by a 7 pm Rosary-Wake at the church.

Carol Maxine Powers, daughter of Ludwig Theodore and Margaret Ann (Deurmier) Schulz, was born November 3, 1931 at Hollingsworth Hospital in Avon, SD. She went peacefully to be with her Lord and Savior on April 22, 2009 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Wagner after a lengthy battle with cancer. Carol attained the age of 77 years, five months and 19 days.

Carol attended rural Choteau Creek #9 School through the eighth grade. She graduated from Delmont High School in 1949. Carol attended Notre Dame Teaching Academy in Mitchell for two years and transferred to and graduated from Southern State Teacher's College in Springfield, SD in 1952. She was a teacher at rural Lakepoint School for two years, rural Choteau Creek School for one year and rural Rouse School for two years. Carol then quit teaching to be a full time mom and to own and operate a dairy farm with her husband Rook.


She married Clifford Claude (Rook) Powers on June 10, 1951. Together they farmed south of Dante, SD form 1951 to 1963. They moved to the Powers' Homeplace in 1963 and continued farming until 2003.

Carol was a member of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Dante. She was a lifetime member of the VFW Auxiliary Post 7319 in Wagner and a member of the Assumption Altar Society.

Carol will be remembered for her love of gardening, bowling and her loving care of her grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Thankful for having shared her life her husband Rook; her six children: Jackie Peters and special friend Terry Andersh of Avon, Janet and husband Stan Nedved of Wagner, Jim and wife Jeanne of Sioux Falls, Angela and husband Bryan Nagel of Springfield, Jerome and wife Heidi of Wagner, and Lori and husband Michael Hollis of Brooklyn, NY; 20 grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren; six sisters: Margaret Heisinger of Parkston, Elaine Guthmiller of Tripp, Ione Fideler of Delmont, Marilyn Nelson of Piedmont, Wilma Elliott of Sanborn, IA and DeVeta Thury of Parkston; and many nieces, nephews and friends.

Carol was preceded in death by her parents; son Douglas on October 5, 1996 and his wife Jan; her grandmother Louisa (Bollinger) Deurmier who helped raise her; and three sisters: Mae Ferber, Charmaine Gremmert and Judy Walz.