CLARK Deloris Dee Battest, 95, of Clark, formerly of Doland, died Tuesday, May 28, 2024, at Avantara in Watertown, with family by her side.
Visitation is from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 2, at Furness Funeral Home at Clark, with a prayer service with rosary at 5 p.m. Her Mass of Christian Burial is 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 3, at St. Michael Catholic Church in Clark with the Reverend Richard Baumberger as celebrant. Burial is in Mt. Hope Cemetery of Frankfort.
Deloris Ann Hoffmann was born May 14, 1929, to John and Mary (Feterl) Hoffmann at Wessington. She attended country grade schools and graduated from Wessington High School in 1947. After graduation, she helped her mother at home, became employed at the Bank of Wessington; bookkeeper at the Farmers Union Oil Co. and then moved to Huron to work in the insurance department of the S.D. Farmers Union State Office for five years
On September 27, 1958, Dee married Lloyd Battest of Doland at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Wessington. They lived northeast of Doland for eight months and then moved to a farm east of Doland. They lived on this farm until the fall of 2014 when they moved into Clark.
Dee worked for three years in the insurance department at Doland Security State Bank until she quit to raise their family. In 1978, she began working in the office at the Redfield Livestock Auction for 17 years. She was a member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church of Doland and the Altar Society. Dee was President of the Doland American Legion Auxiliary Unit for 12 years and held many local, district and state offices. She was a lifetime member of the S.D. Farmers Union and was the Spring Township treasurer for several years.
Dee loved her family, flowers, gardening, writing letters, sending greeting cards, helping on the farm and doing chores.
She is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Mary (Andy) Raile of Aberdeen, Donna (Andy) Perrion of Sioux Falls, and Gail (Brad) Temple of Clark, six grandchildren, Anita Raile, Matthew Perrion, Louise (Andrew) Welbig, Daniel (Samantha) Perrion, Jordyn Temple and Jessica Temple, and great grandchildren, Margaret and Boniface Welbig. She is also survived by a sister-in-law, Dee Buckland and brothers-in-law, Richard Battest and Norman Battest.
Dee is preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd, of 57 years, who died in 2016, and her parents, sisters, Sara Ann and Helen, and a brother, Delbert.
Furness Funeral Home of Clark is assisting the family with arrangements and have an online registry at www.furnessfuneralhome.com.
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