Ella Margaret SEYER

SEYER, BLUNK, LINN, ELLIOTT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/1/2016 at 23:13:32

February 27, 1905 ---- February 24, 2002

Selby, SD --- The funeral for Ella M. Seyer, 96, of Selby will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Selby United Methodist Church. The Rev. Deborah Larson will officiate. Burial will be in Selby Memorial Gardens. Miller Funeral Home of Bowdle is in charge of arrangements. Visitation will be from 5 to 9 tonight at Miller Funeral Chapel in Selby and for one hour prior to the service Wednesday at the church. She died Sunday, Feb.
24, 2002, at Beverly Healthcare Center in Ipswich.

Ella Margaret Seyer was born Feb. 27, 1905, to Henry and Agnes (Blunk) Seyer at Shelby, Iowa. In 1908 the family moved to a farm 5 1/2 miles south of Selby. She attended a nearby rural school before enrollment at Selby High School, from which she graduated in 1923. In 1919 the family moved to the Spring Valley community southeast of Selby. She attended Northern Normal and Industrial School for two years before transferring to South Dakota State University in Brookings. She received her bachelor of science degree in education from SDSU in 1927. She taught high school business and commercial curriculum in Redfield from 1927 to 1943. She worked in Washington, D.C., for the Maritime Commission during summer 1943, then returned to teaching in Montrose, Mich. She then taught school in Eagle Grove, Iowa, for five years. In 1949 she retired from teaching and returned to the Selby-Java area. She cared for her aging father and assisted her brother on the family farm. In 1963, she and her brother retired and moved to Selby. For several years, she worked part-time at the Walworth County Superintendent of Schools office. In fall 1992, they both became residents of Beverly Healthcare Center in Ipswich.

She was named Colonial Manor Snow Queen in 1993 and Valentine Queen in 1996. She helped compile information for the healthcare center's scrapbook. She was a member of Selby United Methodist Church, Selby American Legion Auxiliary and the American Association of Retired Persons, and was a former member of the Idle Hour and Sunshine Homemakers Extension Club.

Survivors include two nieces, Carol Linn of Pierre and Doris Elliott of Parker, Colo.; and four nephews, Ken Seyer of Aberdeen, Marvin Seyer of Ipswich, Fred Seyer Jr. of Las Vegas, and Robert Seyer of Selby. She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and one sister.

Casketbearers will be Thomas Seyer and Terry Seyer, both of Aberdeen; Barry Seyer and Charles Linn, both of Pierre; Thomas Linn of Jamestown, N.D.; and Don Elliott of Parker.

Aberdeen American News -- Aberdeen, South Dakota
February 26, 2002