NOT A RELATIVE - for children's first name to protect them.

Donald “Dick” Krog 86 of Wessington Springs was called to heaven on Friday afternoon Sept. 5th, 2008 at Sanford Hospice Cottage in Sioux Falls. Dick suffered a stroke at his home on Saturday morning Aug. 23, 2008. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm Tuesday Sept. 9th, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church with Rev. John Paulson officiating. Interment will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday Sept 8th from 5-9 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church with a prayer service at 7:30 pm.
Donald “Dick” Krog was born on April 14, 1922 in Buffalo Coo. to Eaner and Esther (Farrington) Krog. Dick received his elementary education at Rural Prairie Bell in Jerauld Co. and graduated from Wessington Springs High School in 1940.
While in high school he met his pretty little blond girl friend from Alpena. After graduation he joined the CC Camp and was stationed in Custer, SD, where he spent one year and then he came home in the fall of 1941. Dick worked for his uncle Ed Krog and Raymond Younie until spring. At this time Dick and his sweetheart were only a mile apart, where she was doing housework for neighbors. Dick often rode his horse over for a visit.
In the early spring, Dick, went to Long Beach, CA. with friends. He worked at the Douglas Aircraft Airplane Factory. After some time he had enough money saved to buy a diamond and sent home to Pearl and asked her to marry him. Pearl flew to California in June 1942 to marry the love of her life on Aug. 2, 1942 in, Yuma, AZ. Were the temp was 119.
Dick and Pearl spent the winter in California working various jobs. The following spring they returned to South Dakota to farm near Pearl’s family. Farming was poor so they moved back to California and worked in the shipyards. Later they moved back to South Dakota farming and ranching in Buffalo Co. where they raised wheat, corn, oats, hogs, cattle, sheep, and a few buffalo and four children.

They farmed and ranched until 1998 when they moved to Wessington Springs, where Dick enjoyed gathering with family and friends to play cards, getting in his pickup and checking out the countryside. He loved watching game shows.
He leaves behind his wife Pearl of 66 years 1 month and 3 days, his four children _ Sulzle of Sioux Falls, _ Krog and his friend Toby of Sioux Falls, _ Krog and his wife Patricia of Sioux Falls and _ Whitehead and her friend Diego of Wessington Springs; 13 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, 2 step grandchildren and 5 step great grandchildren; five sisters Doris Keyser and his husband Buck of Wessington Springs, Jean Schwiesow and her husband Leamon of Madison, Margaret Nielson and her husband Harold, Verna Thum and her husband Gary both of Wessington Springs and Velma Schabot of Woonsocket; one brother Lowell Krog and his wife Nyla of Miller; five sisters-in-law Edna Brandenburg and her husband Harold of Huron, Leona Hansen and her husband Russell of Wessington Springs, Verna Koerner and her husband Leo, De Schaffer, and Lila Kludt and her husband Doc all of Huron; three brothers-in-law Ole Teveldal and his wife Liz, Leonard Teveldal and his wife LuElla both of Wessington Springs and Ivan Teveldal of Tulare.
He was preceded in death by his parents, father and mother-in-law, 5 brothers and sisters, two sons-in-law and one great grandchild.
Funeral arrangements were announced by the Basham Funeral Home in Wessington Springs, SD.