Funeral services for Kenneth D. Ashmore, 71, longtime Lemmon High School Educator, will be Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. at the Calvary Lutheran Church in Lemmon. Rev. Ken Miller will officiate. Burial with Full Military Honors by the Brattvet-Green American Legion Post #66 will follow at the Greenhill Cemetery.

A Family and Masonic service by the Lemmon Lodge #151 AF and AM is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Friday evening at the Funeral Home in Lemmon.

KENNETH DALE ASHMORE was born on February 12, 1934 in Lemmon, SD to Robert and Beata (Wolfe) Ashmore. Ken grew up in Lemmon and graduated from Lemmon High School in 1952 and played basketball, football, track and baseball. He also played Jr. Baseball and Amateur baseball. After high school he attended college at SDSU in Brookings, SD for three years where he played football. He left college to serve his country in the Army for two years and returned to college at Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD. Ken continued to serve his country for 24 years in the SD Army National Guard. He graduated in 1959 with a Social Studies Degree and went on to earn his Masters Degree at NSU in History. While there he met Mavis Sides and they were married in 1960. Three daughters were born to this union, Brenda, Christie and Jean. His wife, Mavis passed away from cancer in 1976. Ken started teaching in 1961 in the Lemmon Public High School and was Principal from 1974 to 1977. Ken missed the classroom and the everyday communications with the kids, so he went back to teaching. He retired in 1994 from Lemmon High School. Ken married Alice Gossmann Rieger in August of 1979. He had a passion for the great outdoors and was an avid hunter and fisherman. He also loved the game of golf, the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Vikings.

During his teaching years he was involved in several community organizations and clubs. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge since 1959 and held several offices including Master. He belonged to the West River Shine Club, the Grand River Sportsman's Club, the Brattvet-Green American Legion Post #66 for 25 years and was on the board for the Petrified Wood Park and also helped organize the Widowed Persons Services in Lemmon.
Ken entered the Hillcrest Care Center in Hettinger, ND on January 9, 2004 and six weeks later he transferred to the Five Counties Hospital and Nursing Home in Lemmon. Ken Ashmore passed from this life on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 at the West River Regional Medical Center in Hettinger, ND.

Survivors include his wife, Alice, of Lemmon; three daughters, Brenda Schweitzer, Christie (Bob) Richardson and Jean Ashmore; 2 step-daughters, Barbara Rieger and fiancé Ajith Gunaratme and Diane (John) Wells; 5 grandchildren, Garrett, Grant and Gaven Schweitzer, Riley and Rachel Richardson and 2 step-grandchildren, Meaghan and Zachary Daniel; brother, Robert and Loretta Ashmore, Austin, TX and several cousins.

Preceding Kenneth in death were his first wife, Mavis, his father, Robert Ashmore and mother Bea Miller and step-father, Don Miller.

A Memorial has been established.