Lauretta Luvaas

Lauretta Luvaas, age 91, Clark, formerly of Bradley, died Monday evening, August 7, 2017 at the Clark Care and Rehabilitation Center.

Visitation will be held Thursday, August 10, 2017 from 5-7 p.m. at the Furness Funeral Home Chapel in Clark and beginning at 9 at the church on Friday.

Funeral services will be held Friday, August 11, 2017 at 10:30 at the Crocker Lutheran Church, Crocker, SD with Minister Marian Grimes officiating. Music will be provided for by Wendy Christman. Casket bearers will be her grandchildren -John Luvaas, Mark Luvaas, Russell Luvaas, Stephanie Jung and Nathan Luvaas. Interment will be at Prairie Hill Cemetery, Bradley, SD.

Lauretta Mildred (Lundholm) Luvaas was born February 5, 1926, to Clarence and Gladys (Frybarger) Lundholm at Bradley, SD. She attended grade school in Bradley and was graduated from Bradley High School in 1944.

On February 13, 1948, she married Gustav Luvaas in Lily, SD at the church parsonage. The couple then took the train to Benton Harbor, MI to live with his sister Nora for a couple of months. They then moved to the farm southeast of Calvary where Lauretta lived for 61 years of her life. While living on the farm, Lauretta loved gardening and baking- making all sorts of canned goods, jams, jellies and doughnuts. She loved to cook for the family gatherings. As a farm wife, Lauretta was always a parts runner for the guys farming and would haul water and lunches to the field. She was a school bus driver for Thorpe School. Lauretta also loved reading, listening to the CB radio and the Ham Radio Scanner, and playing Bingo. Together, Gus and Lauretta enjoyed playing cards, dancing, and traveling taking road trips to wherever the road would go whether it be on snowmobile or by car! Gus died in 1991. In 2009, Lauretta moved into the Wookey Assisted Living Center and in 2014, she moved into the Clark Care and Rehabilitation Center.

Lauretta was a member of the St. Johns Church of Bradley, the Calvary Church near Bradley and most recently, the Crocker Lutheran Church. She was a member of WELCA, the quilting and sewing circle and taught Sunday School.

Blessed for having shared her life are her son, Kenneth (Sally) Luvaas and daughter-in-law, Clara Luvaas, all of Bradley; brothers Clarence, Jr. (Dorothy) Lundholm, of Bradley and Charles "Charley" (Ida) Lundholm of Madison, and sister, Lois (Francis "Red") Stacey of Bradley; 5 grandchildren, John (Hope) Luvaas, Mark (Jessica) Luvaas, Russell (Cate) Luvaas, Stephanie (John) Jung, and Nathan (Amy) Luvaas; and 15 great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband Gus, a son, Glen and granddaughter, Peggy Jo Luvaas (1974) and great-granddaughters Hadley Jo and Paisley Jo Luvaas (2016).