Darleen BeesonWAGNER — Funeral services

for Darleen D. Beeson, 75 of Wag-ner, will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,December 7, 2011, at the WagnerCommunity Church in ruralWagner.

Visitation will be from 1 to 5Tuesday afternoon at the Crosby-Jaeger Funeral Home in Wagner,followed by a 7 p.m. Prayer Serviceat the church. Burial will be in St.John’s Catholic Cemetery, ruralWagner.

Darleen Delores Beeson, daugh-ter of Ben and Anna (Bren)Houska, was born October 18, 1936on a farm south of Dante. She wasthe second child born to this unionof four children. Darleen died Sat-urday, December 3, 2011 at AveraMcKennan Hospital. Darleen at-tained the age of 75 years, onemonth and 16 days.

Darleen attended South Rouse#5 Country School and was a 1956graduate of Wagner High School.On July 27, 1959, Darleen marriedRichard J. Beeson at AssumptionCatholic Church in Dante. Togetherthey resided and worked togetheron two farms south of Wagner. Thesecond farm is currently and hasbeen the family farm to Darleen’sfamily for over 90 years. Born tothis loving union were nine chil-dren. Richard died October 31,2009.

Darleen was a loving wife,mother and grandmother. Hergrandchildren were the light of herlife. She enjoyed cooking, baking,canning, gardening, reading, herflowers, her cats and Christmaslights. She will be remembered forher tea pot collection.

Thankful for having shared herlife are her nine children: Diane

Hahne of Faith;Dennis of Wagner;Rod (Barb) ofDante; Jo Lynn(Travis) Williby ofColby, KS; Pattie(Jerry) Midden-dorp of Fargo, ND;Ileen of Wagner;Sam (Dick) Moserof Lennox; Chuckand L.J., both of

Wagner; 16 grandchildren; 12 greatgrandchildren; brother, George(Joannie) of Wagner; and sister,Norma (Arnold) Horner of Wagner;and many relatives and friends.

Darleen was preceded in deathby her loving husband; parents;oldest brother and his wife, Lloydand Loretta Houska; her UncleErnie Houska; four sisters-in-law:Arlene and Alice Beeson; and Annand Grace Schmuck; two brothers-in-law; Raymond , Jr. and RonaldBeeson; and her parents-in-law:Raymond Sr. and Grace Beeson.

Darleen was grateful to haveshared all the years of her life withher family and friends. She alwaysfelt blessed to have had 50 years ofloving marriage with the love ofher life, Richard.

Yankton Press & Dakotan

December 6, 2011

Gerald PeitzORLAND, Calif. — Jerry Peitz,

beloved father and grandfather,passed away unexpectedly on hisranch November 29.

He was born on July 9, 1930 inBeaver Creek, Nebraska. Heproudly served his country inKorea with the Army. In 1954 hemarried Irene Koch (Wynot, Ne-braska). They moved to Orland,

California in 1962. He retired fromJohns Manville in 1996.

He is survived by his wife Ireneof Orland, children Mary (Carlson)of Granite Bay, Jerome Peitz ofChico and Dr. Tom Peitz ofTiburon. He leaves seven grand-children as well as brothers Dennisand Art of Yankton, SD.

Yankton Press & Dakotan

December 6, 2011

Hubert ‘Hube’ Gregoire Hubert W. “Hube” Gregoire, 72,

of Yankton, SD for-merly of Wakonda,SD died Sunday,December 4, 2011at the Sister JamesCare Center inYankton from com-plications of LouGehrigs Disease.

Hube was bornin Vermillion, SD toRaoul and Blanche(Seney) Gregoire.He attended Lodi Country Schooland graduated from Wakonda HighSchool in 1957. He attended theUniversity of South Dakota for oneyear and then enlisted in theUnited States Army, serving duringthe Vietnam War.

He was united in marriage toLois Christenson on August 19,1966, in Vermillion. He spent themajority of his life farming with his

brother and best friend Dick. In re-cent years he became an avid JohnDeere collector, collecting antiquetractors, scale model tractors andbuilding custom John Deere toys.He enjoyed drawing, traveling andspending time with family andfriends. He was a member of St.Agnes Catholic Church andKnights of Columbus, the WakondaAmerican Legion, the VermillionEagles Club and a longtime Pleas-ant Valley Township boardmember.

Grateful for sharing his life arehis wife Lois of Yankton, three chil-dren; Kim (Rob) Paterick of Cum-ming, GA, Kristel (Pat) Kleinschmitof Peoria, AZ and Kary (Becky)Gregoire of Yankton, two brothers;Bob (Judy) Gregoire of Vermillionand Dick (Louise) Gregoire ofWakonda, two granddaughters; Sa-vannah and Alicia, and five grand-sons; Blake, Nick, Kyler, Mason andJake.

Funeral mass will be 10:30 a.m.Wednesday, December 7, at the St.Agnes Catholic Church in Vermil-lion with burial to follow in the Cal-vary Cemetery in Vermillion.

Visitation will be Tuesday, De-cember 6 at 5:00 p.m. with a prayerservice at 7:00 p.m., all at thechurch.

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Agnes SchancheAgnes M. Schanche, age 91 of

Yankton passed away Friday, De-cember 2, 2011 peacefully withher family at her side at AveraSister James Care Center, Yank-ton, SD.

Funeral services will be 10:30a.m. Wednesday, December 7,2011 at Trinity Lutheran Church,Yankton with Rev. Dave Wilder-muth officiating. Burial will be inthe Yankton Cemetery.

Visitations will begin at 3p.m. Tuesday, December 6, 2011at the Opsahl-Kostel FuneralHome and Crematory, Yanktonwith a 7:00 p.m. prayer service.Visitations will resume one hourprior to the service at thechurch.

Pallbearers will be her grand-sons: Jeremy Guenther, BryanSchanche, Patrick Harty, Gerrit

Guenther, TravisPeterson,Matthew Guen-ther, Tim Peter-son, SamRasmussen, andBrad Schanche.Honorary pall-bearers will beher granddaugh-ters: Michelle

Harty Olsen, Kimberly Alberts,Heather Riediger, Emily Ras-mussen, Katie Guenther, SarahRasmussen, and Kara Schanche.

Agnes Marie Jorgensen wasborn to James and Anna (Nel-son) Jorgensen on September29, 1920 in Yankton, SD the 4thof 6 children. She was raised inYankton attending rural PrairieSchool and graduating fromMount Marty High School. Shemarried Cletus Schanche on Au-gust 28, 1947 at Trinity Lutheran

Church in Yankton and to thisunion 7 children were born. Shewas a farm wife later working atStuelpnagels and as a house-keeper at Sacred Heart Hospital.She helped out on the farm,raised gardens, canned, and wasa wonderful baker. She was avery talented artist in her youthand was able to resume that tal-ent after her family was raised.She enjoyed spending time withher children, grandchildren, andgreat grandchildren.

Survivors are her children:Elaine (LeRoy) Harty, Dave(Kathy) Schanche, DaleSchanche, Joyce (Bill) Peterson,all of Yankton, Carol (Dan) Guen-ther of Wymore, NE, Dorothy(Tim) Rasmussen of Sioux Falls,and Kenny (Tammy) Schancheof Lesterville; 16 grandchildren,11 great grandchildren; herbrother, Ron (Donna) Jorgensen

of Stillwater, MN and nieces andnephews.

She was preceded in deathby her husband, Cletus in 1999,her parents, her sisters, GladysCurry and Carol Pullen and twobrothers, Harold and AlvieJorgensen.

Memorial may be directed tothe Alzheimer’s Association,South Dakota Office, 1000 N.West Avenue, #250, Sioux Falls,SD 57104 and Avera SacredHeart Hospice, 501 Summit,Yankton, SD 57078 or the charityof your choice.

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Mitchell Council To Look At City Hall MoveMITCHELL (AP) — The Mitchell City Council is planning to dis-

cuss a possible relocation of city hall.The Daily Republic reports that the potential move would not

take place anytime soon. It’s related to a study of a next-generationCorn Palace that could use part of the current city hall for anexpansion.

The discussion is on the city council’s Monday night meetingagenda.

City officials say they are running out of space for workers andoffices, so any relocation would also help alleviate that problem.

A development committee says a new larger Corn Palace couldturn around slumping attendance figures for the tourist attraction.

Neb. Library Says Someone Urinated On BooksLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials at the Bennett Martin Library in

Lincoln have removed and destroyed about 150 books after some-one urinated on the biographies bookshelf.

The Lincoln Journal Star says Monday that officials don’t knowwhen it happened, why it happened or who did it, but the smell leftno question. A police report puts the loss at $3,900.

Tammy Teasley of Lincoln City Libraries says she was removingolder, outdated books from circulation on Nov. 28 when she de-tected the odor on the shelves on the second floor in a corner ofthe building.

Teasley says the person was likely intoxicated and found a se-cluded spot in the library. She says the remaining books on thoseshelves will be moved elsewhere.

Teacher On Paid Leave After Students BurnedMAPLE GROVE, Minn. (AP) — A Maple Grove Junior High School

teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave after a sci-ence experiment burned four students, one of them seriously.

District spokeswoman Barbara Olson says Matthew Achor willremain on leave until the school district’s investigation is com-plete. She says the district has no timetable for its investigation.

The Star Tribune reports Achor has been with the Osseo SchoolDistrict since 1985, according to state teaching licensing records.

The incident happened in a classroom last Thursday. Three ofthe four students were treated at HCMC and released that day. A15-year-old boy who was the most seriously burned left the hospi-tal over the weekend.

A telephone message left at Achor’s home Monday was not im-mediately returned.

Ceremony Honors Vets With Holiday WreathsPIERRE (AP) — Veterans were honored with holiday wreaths on

Monday during a ceremony at Pierre’s Capitol Lake.KCCR radio reports that the annual Wreaths Across America

ceremony at the Flaming Fountain is part of a national effort plac-ing wreaths at memorials and grave sites of veterans and fallen mil-itary personnel.

Lt. Gov. Matt Michels says such ceremonies of remembrance areimportant, especially with the 70th anniversary of the attack onPearl Harbor on Wednesday.

Michaels, a Navy veteran, attended the morning service organ-ized by the South Dakota Funeral Directors Association.

South Dakota National Guard Major Kenn Kerfont told the audi-ence that it is important to remember the sacrifices made by thosewho served during all times of the year.

Iowa Veterans Home Fined After FallsBY RYAN J. FOLEYAssociated Press

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa’s nursing homefor veterans has ended a program in whichresidents transported other residents who usewheelchairs around the campus, following abloody accident in which an elderly womanfell face-first into concrete and broke her nose,its top administrator said.

The Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltownreported the Sept. 29 fall by a resident whosuffered from arthritis and dementia to stateregulators and took responsibility for failing totrain her escort. That incident and another inwhich a patient fell out of bed after being leftunattended led the Iowa Department of Inspec-tions and Appeals to cite the home for a majorsafety violation last month and fine it $3,000.

State records show it is the second fine fora serious violation in two years for the home,which is Iowa’s largest nursing home andamong the biggest in the nation for veteransand their spouses. The home is made up oftwo separate facilities: one that provides nurs-ing care for about 500 residents, and a residen-tial care facility where 100 more people livemostly independently.

Under the home’s resident employee escortprogram, Commandant David Worley said Fri-day that about a dozen residents of the resi-dential care facility were employed a fewhours per week at minimum wage transportingnursing home residents in wheelchairs. Hesaid the program had been in place for yearsbut was discontinued after the Sept. 29 fall ex-posed a lack of training among employees andraised questions about safety.

“We hope we never, ever are the cause of aresident getting injured. That’s always ourbiggest concern,” he said. “We want that tonever happen again.”

Asked why the escorts did not have train-ing, Worley said the program was there whenhe took over as nursing home administrator 16months ago “and we just hadn’t followed upon it.”

On Sept. 29, a male employee was transport-ing the woman back from a beauty shop down aramp on the home’s grounds when she put herfeet down, tried to stand up and fell face-firstonto cement, records show. The woman wastaken to an emergency room, where doctorsfound her nose was broken and a major cut onher forehead that required 14 stitches.

The male employee told investigators he’dbeen doing the job for three months, but had notraining on the proper use of wheelchairs.

“At the time of the fall, the wheelchair ped-als were not being used and the resident es-cort employee transferring the resident had notraining,” according to the state citation,which is dated Nov. 2. “The facility and/or di-rector of nursing had not provided training toensure residents’ needs were met.”

After the fall, Worley said employee escortswere reassigned to other jobs such as deliver-ing mail and folding laundry. Residents inwheelchairs will now only be transported bystaff employees or volunteers who go throughtraining, he said.

David Werning, a spokesman for the Depart-ment of Inspections and Appeals, said thewheelchair escort program “may well havebeen a case of good intentions that went awry.”He said it was understandable to try to have

residents feel good about helping others, butthe lack of training was problematic.

In the second case, regulators faulted thehome for failing to prevent a patient who hadchronic kidney disease and other ailments fromslipping off the end of a bed on Sept. 25 and hit-ting his or her head on the floor. That resident,whose gender wasn’t specified in the report,bruised the area around his or her eye so badlythat it swelled shut and suffered abrasions tothe elbow and knees.

Veterans home employees blamed a nursefor briefly leaving the resident sitting on theend of the bed while looking for another em-ployee to help adjust the patient’s sling. The pa-tient’s care plan had warned the resident was athigh risk for falls.

Regulators cited the home for a single majorviolation as a result of multiple lesser infrac-tions that constituted “an imminent danger or asubstantial probability of resultant death orphysical harm to the residents of the facility.”

The home paid the fine on Nov. 15, and itssize was reduced by 35 percent to $1,950 undera policy rewarding violators who do not contestcitations, Werning said. He said home adminis-trators had also submitted an acceptable planto address the problems, and regulators wouldcheck whether the measures are in place duringa surprise visit.

“Anytime you get a Class 1 violation it signi-fies there is a significant issue to be corrected,”he said. “Considering the size of the facility,they jumped on it quickly.”

The home was cited and fined $4,500 lastyear for inadequate supervision after a residentwith dementia left the grounds during a recre-ational activity, walked four blocks away andwas spotted trying to hitchhike.

“I couldn’t agree more. And Ihope that the rest of their Repub-lican colleagues come aroundand join Democrats to pass thesetax cuts and put money back intothe pockets of working Ameri-cans,” the president said.

Obama also added, “I knowmany Republicans have sworn anoath never to raise taxes as longas they live. How could it be thatthe only time there’s a catch iswhen it comes to raising taxes onmiddle-class families? How canyou fight tooth-and-nail to pro-tect high-end tax breaks for thewealthiest Americans, and yetbarely lift a finger to preventtaxes going up for 160 millionAmericans who really need thehelp?”

He spoke as Senate Democratsunveiled revisions that cut thecost of the administration’s pro-posal by one-third, to an esti-mated $179 billion. As rewritten,it deepens the current Social Se-curity payroll tax cut and extendsit until the end of 2012, but jetti-sons Obama’s request to give

businesses relief at the sametime.

Republicans were critical de-spite the changes.

“Frankly, the only thing bipar-tisan about this latest politicalgambit is opposition to the per-manent tax hike on small busi-nesses to pay for temporaryone-year tax policy,” said Sen.Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the seniorRepublican on the Senate FinanceCommittee. Republicans oftenrefer to the proposal as a tax in-crease on small business ownersin hopes of recasting Democraticclaims that it would fall on “mil-lionaires and billionaires.”

Advanced by Sen. Bob Casey,D-Pa., the revised proposal alsoscales back the surtax on seven-figure earners that Democratshad originally proposed to coverthe bill’s entire cost, from 3.25percent to 1.9 percent.

Also included are higher feesfor consumers whose mortgagesare from Fannie Mae and FreddieMac, as well as a GOP proposalfrom last week to make sure mil-lionaires don’t receive unemploy-ment benefits or food stamps.

———Associated Press writers Andrew Taylor

and Julie Pace in Washington contributedto this report.

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