Louise Dorothy Gjerlow
Spearfish, SD

Louise Dorothy Gjerlow, 93, passed away at Lookout Memorial Hospital, Spearfish on Nov. 11, 2004.

Funeral services will be Saturday, Nov. 20 at 10 AM at the Wesleyan Church, Belle Fourche, with Pastor Pete Bonnichsen officiating. Visitations will be Friday, Nov. 19 from 1 to 7 pm at the Funeral Home of the Northern Hills, Belle Fourche and for one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be at 3 PM, Saturday, at Rosehill Cemetery, Reeder, ND. A memorial has been established to the Wesleyan Church, Belle Fourche.

Louise Dorothy Graff was born on April 13, 1911 to Theobald and Louise (Martin) Graff at their homestead in Twin Township, Harding Co., SD. She grew up there and attended a rural school near the homestead. Louise grew up helping with farm chores and fieldwork at an early age, her father being bed ridden.

She was married to Reinhard Hermann in 1930 and they lived in the Gascoyne, ND area doing farm work and later lived in Idaho and Washington. They returned to her parents place, later purchasing it to farm and ranch. In the mid 1950¡¦s they moved to Spearfish, SD.

Louise married Sigurd Gjerlow in 1957 and they lived at Reeder, ND. There she continued and enjoyed the hard work of rural life, hauling bales, working in his scap metal business and farming. Sigurd passed away in 1977 and she then lived in Bowman, ND until moving to Belle Fourche in 1986 and loved to volunteer at the Nursing Home and join her weekly ¡§lunch bunch¡¨. Due to declining health she moved to Spearfish in 1994 and has resided there since.

In addition to her husbands, she was preceded in death by one son, Eugene Hermann in 1997, her parents, 4 sisters; Esther Robbins, Martha Finck, Rachel Mitchell and Lydia Maychrzak.

Surviving are her daughters, Delores Warrick of Spearfish, Darlene Lindeman of Pahrump, NV, brother, Ted Graff of Seattle, WA, 11 grandchildren, 20 great grand children and four great great grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Funeral Home of the Northern Hills, Belle Fourche and Evanson Jensen Funeral Home, Hettinger, ND, Eldon Jensen Family Funeral Homes of Caring"¥.