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- SSDI: #540-12-4475, born 7 Jun 1907, died 16 Jun 1995; Res. 57035 Humboldt, Minnhaha, SD, issued OR (before 1951).
From the Humboldt Journal, Humboldt, South Dakota,Thursday, June 22, 1995:
“Funeral Services held June 20 for Lloyd Ideker:
Services were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 20, 1995 for Lloyd Ideker at East Side Lutheran Church, with burial in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Lloyd Henry “Ike” Ideker, 88, a retired trucker, of Sioux Falls, died Friday, June 16, 1995 at Bethany Lutheran Home.
Mr. Ideker was born June 7, 1907, on a farm near Hartford. He left the farm in 1932 to enter the trucking business. He worked road constructiohn for the state until 1938, and then began work with Nash Finch Co., in Sioux Falls. He was inducted into the U.S. Army on June 20, 1942, where he served four years overseas and was in combat for 35 days. After his discharge on September 6, 1945, he returned to Sioux Falls and continued working for Nash Finch.
In 1955, he toured in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he worked as a truck driver at Elison Air Force Base. He remained there until 1959 when he returned home and continued in the trucking business. In 1960, he purchased a new truck which he used to tow mobile homes on delivery out of Elkhart, IN. He retired in 1973 and returned to Renner.
He married Mary Fromholz in 1977. He later entered Bethany Lutheran Home, where he spent the remainder of his life.
Mr. Ideker was a member of East Side Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls, the American Legion of Renner and the VFW in Sioux Falls.
He is survived by three brothers: Leonard, Ray and Larry, all of Humboldt, and five sisters: Ethel Dean, Vera Adamson and May Sutter, all of Sioux Falls; Eva Elsenberg, Devver, Colo.; and Jeannette Schlevelbein, Phoenix, Arizona.
Minnehaha Funeral Home of Baltic was in charge of the arrangements.”
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