Duwayne Allen Wallen

DuWayne A. Wallen, age 85 of Clark, SD died Thursday morning, August 8, 2019 at Prairie View Healthcare Center of Woonsocket surrounded by family.

Visitation will be held Sunday, August 11, 2019 from 4-6 PM at the Furness Funeral Home in Clark and one hour before services at the church.

Funeral services will be held Monday, August 12, 2019 at 10:30 AM at the United Methodist Church of Clark. Pastor Mark Tracy will be officiating. Pianist will be Dorothy Fuller, organist Wanda Bethke, and vocalists will be Roger Nordhus and Rebecca Grassel. Casket bearers will be DuWayne's grandsons and the honorary casketbearers will be his granddaughters. Burial will be in the Clark Center Lutheran Cemetery of rural Clark with full military honors.

DuWayne Allen Wallen was born December 1, 1933 to Justus and Ida (Johnson) Wallen in Garfield Township of Clark County. He grew up on the family farm and attended the country schools of Wallen School, Foster School and Bailey Lake School through 8 ^th grade. He then continued to work on the family farm and for area farmers including Jasper Lura and picked potatoes. DuWayne loved playing Legion Baseball and Amateur Baseball in his younger years.

DuWayne married Delma Jongbloed on February 4, 1956 at Clark Center Lutheran Church of rural Clark. In August of 1956, he was drafted into the US Army.  He was stationed in Germany from January of 1957 to August of 1958. He returned to the farm in the spring of 1959 to farm and retired from that in the late 1980s. In 2005, DuWayne and Delma moved into Clark. DuWayne kept busy helping at Clark Community Oil, Orris Farms, Harold Nipe and for a time was co-owner of Hendry Seed House.

DuWayne enjoyed watching baseball and was a very integral part of the local Legion Baseball program spearheading it for several years. He was a member of the Cagley-Smith Post #60 and the Clark United Methodist Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents, Justus and Ida Wallen, brother-in-law Alan VanSickle and sister-in-law Darlene Jongbloed.

Grateful for having shared his life are his wife for over 63 years, Delma of Clark; his children, Steve (Billie) Wallen of Lake Preston, Sandy (Doug) Herrick of Clark, Penny (Jack) Schulz of Woonsocket, and Mike (Laurie) Wallen of Aurora; grandchildren Brock Wallen, Shawn Wallen, Seth Wallen, Amy Sebeck, Cindy Kauffman, Nathan Herrick, Rebecca Grassel, Alex Warkenthien, Eric Warkenthien, Jordan Schulz, Jeff Schulz, Kristi Schulz, Miranda Wallen, and Trevor Wallen; and 20 great grandchildren. Also surviving are brothers-in-law Bill (Bette) Jongbloed and Stan (Brenda) Jongbloed and sister-in-law Linda VanSickle.

Furness Funeral Home of Clark is in care of arrangements where there is an online registry at www.furnessfuneralhome.com.