Arlene Larson, Howard

Arlene Larson, 80, Howard, formerly of the Salem and Winfred areas, died Sunday, June 21, 2009, at Avera McKennan Hospital, Sioux Falls.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Ramsey Baptist Church, rural Montrose. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Kinzley Funeral Home, Salem.

She was born on Dec. 19, 1928, at home near Unityville to Fred and Minnie (Wobig) Rueb.

She attended a country grade school and graduated from Salem High School in 1946.

After graduation, she moved to Sioux Falls and worked as a secretary.

On March 9, 1951, she married Kenneth Larson at First Baptist Church in Sioux Falls.

They lived and farmed north of Salem and then in the Winfred area.

They lived on the farm until April 2007, when they both moved into Howard Good Samaritan Center.

She is survived by two sons: Dennis and wife Sheila, Flandreau; and Lyle and wife Vickie, Vadnais Heights, Minn.; three daughters: Joyce Becker and husband Mike, Winfred; Audrey O’Sullivan and husband Bill, Savage, Minn.; and Dawn Hahn and husband Byron, Humboldt; 19 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one stepgreat-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 2008 and her parents.

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