Hattie K. (Hammond) Roach
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie K. Roach, 107, of Yankton, S.D., were held Tuesday, April 17 at 1:30 p.m., in the Kostel Funeral Home in Yankton with the Rev. Robert Vessey officiating. Music was provided by Les Suga, organist and granddaughter, Mrs. Bob Roach, soloist, sang, " A Closer Walk With Thee" and "How Great Thou Art". Pallbearers were grandsons, Lee Lunde, Earl Roach, Bob Roach, Larry Roach, Junior Hewer, and Marlowe Rames. Honorary pallbearers were Bill Mason, Kyle Smith, Gary Doran, Vern Mason, Terry Gillette, Charles Mason, Douglas Rames, John Mason and Lloyd Lunde.
Interment was in Riverview Cemetery at Centerville, S.D. Hattie K. Roach, daughter of Steve Hammond and Jenny Sixberry Hammond, was born November 30, 1871, and died April 14 [1979] at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton. She had been a resident of the Shalom Rest Center for the past eighteen months. She was born in a sod house on the Vermilion River, at an old landmark in territorial days called Turner in Turner County. At the time of her death she was the oldest living native in the state of South Dakota.
On September 3, 1891, at the age of 19, she was married to William A. Roach, at the bride's farm home north of Centerville, S.D. To this union nine children were born, four sons and five daughters. They lived in McCook, Yankton, Lincoln and Turner Counties and for thirty years lived on a farm north of Yankton on the James River, farming. They disposed of their farm in 1953, moving to Davis, S.D. In 1963, they moved into Yankton. Mr. Roach died in November of 1963.
She is survived by eight children, Mrs. Oscar (Eva) Mason of Brunswick, Mrs. Linnie Johnson of Perterville, Calif., Harlan (Pat) Roach, Lyle Roach, James Roach and Mrs. Grace Hewer, all of Yankton, Mrs. Eiel (Lorraine) Lunde of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Mrs. Dwight (Eleanor) Rames of Olivet, S.D.; over 100 grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband and a son, Perry Roach in September, 1975.
Obit originally contributed by Dean Hildreth.
