Died Friday, February 3, 2012 at Avera St. Benedict Health Center in Parkston. Mass will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, February 10, 2012 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Wagner, with Father Joseph Forcelle as celebrant. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. A Rosary/Wake will be held 7:00 p.m. Thursday at the church. Visitation will be Thursday from 1 PM until 5 PM at the Crosby-Jaeger Funeral Home in Wagner.

Viola L. "Toots" Soukup was born January 30, 1913 at Wagner, South Dakota, the daughter of John and Eva Mae (Eddy) Fincke. She died Friday, February 3, 2012 at Avera St. Benedict Health Center in Parkston. Toots attained the age of 99 years and four days.

Toots attended Wagner High School. She was united in marriage to Albert Soukup on February 6, 1939 in Wagner. Together they farmed south of Wagner until they retired in 1975 and moved into Wagner.

Toots was a member of St. John's Catholic Church, Catholic Daughters and Altar Society. She did a lot of volunteer work and volunteered at the Good Samaritan Center in Wagner for many years.

Toots will be remembered for her love of quilting, embroidering, baking and cooking. She was known for her potato salad, potato dumplings, kolaches, long johns and donuts.

Thankful for having shared her life are her four children: Francis and wife Louann Soukup of Wagner; AJ and wife Nancy Soukup of Springfield; Christine and husband David Taylor of Noel, MO; and Kate and husband Ed Bader of Burleson, TX; 20 grandchildren; 29 great grandchildren; two sisters-in-law: Marthann Peters of TX and Mary Fincke of Belvidere, IL; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Toots was preceded in death by her husband, Albert on January 29, 1997; parents; sister, Mabel Fincke; and four brothers: Clarence, Arthur, Leonard and Ollie Fincke.