Paul Orris

Paul Orris, age 68, rural Clark, died at his home on Saturday, February 9, 2019 of natural causes.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, February 14, 2019 from 5-7 PM at the St. Paul Lutheran Church at Clark and will continue the next day at the Church after 9AM.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, February 15, 2019 at 11:00 AM in the St. Paul Lutheran Church at Clark with Minister Marion Grimes officiating.  The organist will be Dorothy Fuller.  Casketbearers will be Gregg Stormo, Larry Lynch, and Doug Loomis.  A dinner will follow at the Church.  Burial will be in the spring at Calvary Lutheran Cemetery near Bradley.

He was born Paul David Orris on August 31, 1950 at Watertown, the son of Robert and Clarice (Bergan) Orris.  Paul attended school in Clark, participating in wrestling, graduating in 1968.  Paul helped at the family farm and worked road construction with finishing cement.

Paul was united in marriage to Sandy Wicks at the Crocker Lutheran Church on May 28, 1976.  The couple lived at Castlewood where he worked for a time at Chickasha Mobile Homes at Watertown.  They later moved to a farm site north of Clark in 1996 where he and Sandy built a home, something he was very proud of building mostly himself.  He went to work at Chef-Reddy-McCain Foods in the maintenance department.  Later Paul worked for the county of Clark in the weed department, retiring in 2017 after 29 years of service.

There wasn't much that Paul couldn't fix, he loved tinkering on most anything, and able to fix it.  He enjoyed fishing with the grandkids and taking care of his sheep.  Paul enjoyed looking out the big picture window and watching the hundreds of deer around his place.  Sitting in his chair nibbling on Hot Tamales and eating Kettle Korn were also favorite pastimes.

Preceding him in death were his parents, a brother, Dick and his father-in-law, Austin Wicks along with other family members over the years.

Survivors include his wife Sandy of Clark, sons, Chad (Jenny) Orris of Dakota Dunes and Rob (Baylee Shult) Orris of Clark, grandchildren, Isabel, Eli, Lucy, and Callie and his siblings, Donna Paakkonen of Richfield, MN, Lynda (Byron) Anderson of Saratoga, CA, Jim (Lori Elie) Orris , Loren (Maxine Anderson) Orris, Wayne (Barbara Bays) Orris all of Clark, SD, Helen Jeanne (Jim) Fischbach of Warner, SD.  He also leaves his Mother-in-law, Thelma Wicks of Lake Norden.

Funeral arrangements are with the Furness Funeral Home at Clark where there is an on-line registry at www.furnessfuneralhome.com