Funeral Services for Leona Deloy, 83, of Lemmon, SD will be Tuesday, October 4, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. at the Calvary Lutheran Church in Lemmon. Rev. Ken Miller will officiate and burial will follow at the Greenhill Cemetery in Lemmon. Visitations will be from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Monday, October 3, at the Evanson Jensen Funeral Home and one hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday morning.

LEONA STUGELMEYER was born to Emanuel and Katherine (Schock) Stugelmeyer on June 20, 1922 at Ashley, ND. When she was four years old, her family moved to McLaughlin, SD. She attended Roosevelt Elementary Country School.


Leona grew up helping on the family farm and cooking at a very young age for threshing crews. She worked for many years at the D & E Café in Pierre, SD. Leona moved to Lemmon, SD in 1964 and for a short time was a partner with her brother Earl in the Dairy Dip. Most of her life was spent doing waitress work.
Leona truly enjoyed spending time with her family which meant a great deal to her. During her lifetime she was fortunate enough to live in and enjoy many different cities including San Francisco and Chicago. For the last year and a half, she resided in the Five Counties Nursing Home in Lemmon, where she passed away on Friday morning, September 30, 2005.


Grateful for having shared her life are her daughter, Punky (Francis) Hulm, of Lemmon; grandchildren, Carrie (Brad) Derschan, Dawn (Scott) Kelly, all of Lemmon, SD and Shane (Trixie) Hulm, of Rapid City, SD; great grandchildren, Britnai and Adam Derschan, Kuger and Klae Kelly and Abbie Hulm; two brothers, Earl (Anita) Stugelmeyer, Lemmon and Mel (Linda) Stugelmeyer, North Plains, OR; one sister, LaVerna Klein, Missoula, MT; sisters-in-law, Adeline Stugelmeyer, Salem, OR and Sylvia "Snooks" Stugelmeyer, Laurel, MT. Preceding Leona in death were her husband, Earl Deloy, her parents, Emanuel and Katherine Stugelmeyer, two brothers, Clarence "Sonny" and Walter "Rusty" Stugelmeyer, one sister, Lorraine Zimmerman, sisters-in-law, Sharon Stugelmeyer and brother-in-law, Adam Klein.