Her funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, September 29, 2014 at First Baptist Church in Avon, with burial in the church cemetery, rural Avon. Visitation will be at the church Sunday from 5 to 7, with the family present from 6 to 7. Crosby-Jaeger Funeral Home of Avon is in charge of the arrangements.

Esther Voigt, daughter of E.O.F. and Katie (TerVeer) Voigt, was born August 28, 1926 on a farm near Avon, SD. She died peacefully Thursday, September 25, 2014 at the Good Samaritan Society in Tyndall. Esther attained the age of 88 years and 29 days.

Esther attended Mawhinney Country School through the second grade. As young girl, she lost her eye sight and finished her third grade through high school education at the School for the Blind in Gary, SD.

Esther returned to Avon where she lived with her brothers and sisters. She helped with the farm chores, milked the cows, cooked and cleaned the house and cleaned chickens. Esther never let her lack of sight keep her from "seeing" what needed to be done. She remained on the farm until she suffered a stroke in 2007, and entered the Good Samaritan Society in Tyndall on May 17, 2007.

Esther was a member of the First Baptist Church in Avon.

Esther will be remembered for her enjoyment of playing the piano. She often read in Braille to her nieces and nephews and gave programs to young children about being blind and how she learned to read in Braille.

Thankful for having shared her life are two brothers: George of GSS in Tyndall and Vert and wife Doris of Avon; one sister, Carrie of GSS in Tyndall; and many nieces, nephews and great nieces and great nephews.

Esther was preceded in death by her parents; half brother, Eldon Voigt; half sister, Goldie Lubbers; two brothers: Abe and John and wife, Luella; three sisters: Clara and husband Peter DeBoer, Johanna and husband Emil Weber, and Margaret and husband Russell Hubner; and niece Delilia Weber.