Funeral services for Kendall Isakson, age 67 of Rapid City, formerly of Prairie City and Hettinger, will be 10:30am Saturday, February 17, at the Hettinger Lutheran Church. Pastor Kathleen Dettman will officiate with burial in the Hettinger Cemetery.


Special music will be provided by Jill Sailer, organist. Serving as casketbearers are Rodney Howe, Berdette Howe, Dallas Isakson, Dylan Isakson, Duane Heiner, and Jim LeFebre. His Cribbage Players and Friends are considered Honorary Bearers.


Kendall Boyd Isakson was born September 14, 1939 in Hettinger, ND to Isak and Hylma (Uglem) Isakson. Kendall was the third of four children. He was raised on a farm southwest of Lodgepole, SD. He attended grade school at the Bealer School and 1957 graduated from Hettinger High School, Hettinger, ND.


After graduation, Kendall worked for several farmers and ranchers in the Hettinger and the Lodgepole areas. He also drove truck for Austad's Inc. of Hettinger and worked for Keith Carr Construction of Prairie City.


In 1974, he was married to Karen Christianson of Hettinger. About this same time he began a construction company building roads, stock dams and building sites in the region. In the 1980s, Kendall moved to the Black Hills and was employed as a long haul trucker hauling cement from Rapid City to Wyoming and Montana. With his health declining in his later years, he retired in Rapid City, SD where he resided until his death. He enjoyed visits from friends and coworkers and especially a game of cribbage or dominos.


Kendall passed away in Rapid City on February 5, 2007


Kendall is survived by his nephews and nieces.


He was preceded in death by his parents Isak and Hylma, 3 brothers Gale, Jerome and Danny, a sister-in-law Carol Lefebre/Isakson and a niece and nephew LeeAnn and Mark.