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Annie Mabel "Meme" Mitchell Scheinost
24 Aug 1909 – 17 Aug 1991
| Birth | 24 Aug 1909 |
| Death | 17 Aug 1991 |
| Cemetery | Custer Cemetery Custer , Custer County , South Dakota , USA |
| Added by | Joann Boggs on 09 Dec 2011 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81623058 |
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Services for Annie Mabel "Meme" Mitchell Scheinost, 82, Broomfield, Colo., and formerly of Custer, who died Saturday morning in Denver, will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Custer Lutheran Fellowship in Custer. The Rev. Chuck Hazlett will officiate. Following the services her body will be cremated. Burial will be at 9 a.m. Saturday in Custer Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Emphysema Foundation, 1600 Race St., Denver, Colo. 80206. Correspondence may be sent to her husband, Rudy Scheinost, at 12565 Sheridan Blvd. 206, Broomfield, Colo. 80020. She was born May 24, 1909, in Salem, S.D., the third child of Frank and Bertha Mitchell. She moved to Mitchell at a young age when her father accepted the city attorney position. When he transferred to the Attorney General's office, her family moved to Pierre. Her father later established the highway right of way department for South Dakota and his portrait hangs in the state Capitol. She graduated from Dakota Wesleyan University with a teacher's certificate. She met her husband, Rudolph Edwin Scheinost, in church in Mitchell, S.D. He worked at the Mitchell National Bank. They were married June 8, 1935, in a garden wedding at the home of a family friend in Sioux Falls. The couple moved to Custer in 1937 where he worked in the Custer County Bank and she worked in the Ben Franklin store. The couple had one daughter, Sharyn Eloise, born in 1940. The couple became co-owners of the Ben Franklin store in 1943. They were active members of the Custer community for 46 years. She was worthy matron of the Eastern Star, president of the Daughters of the Nile, state president of the Spanish American War Veterans Organization and president of the P.E.O. After retiring from the Ben Franklin store in 1973, the couple worked for the 1880 Train for six years. In 1986 they moved to Colorado to be near their daughter and her family. There they joined King of Kings Lutheran Church. Surviving are her husband, of Broomfield, Colo.; her daughter, Sharyn Edwards; three granddaughters, Kari Edwards, Shari Edwards and Heidi Edwards-Christopher; and one sister, Margaret Stone. Contributor: Duane Skeel (48892580) • [email protected]
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