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Copper Basin News, Hayden, Arizona September 11, 2013
Obituary
Ida Evangeline ‘Vange’ Renshaw November 27, 1921 - September 5, 2013
Ida Evangeline “Vange” Renshaw was born Nov. 27, 1921 to Oscar David and Ida Marie (Palmquist) Anderson on a farm one
mile north of Unityville, South Dakota. She passed away Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013 in Sioux Falls, SD. She attended Sun
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Prairie No. 6 grade school in McCook County, graduated from Salem High School, and South Dakota State University in Brookings. Vange was active in speech, oratory and drama and was both business manager and editor of the Collegian. She and Robert C. “Bob” Renshaw married in June 1946. She taught English, Literature, and Journalism at Brookings High School. In 1948 they purchased a weekly newspaper, The Elkton Record, which they edited and published for nine years. They moved to Sioux Falls in 1958. In addition to raising three children, Vange was a
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substitute teacher and aide at Sioux Falls public schools, Sioux Falls University, and Hartford school. Her last ten years of employment were in state government as editor and public information officer for Social Services, Labor and Education departments in Pierre. Vange resided at Dow Rummel Village the last year of her life. Vange had been a longtime winter visitor of the Copper Basin area. Grateful for having
shared her life are her three children: Sandy Renshaw (Jim Lindberg), Des Moines, IA, Tim Renshaw, Rapid City, SD, and Sue McComber (Mike), Sioux Falls, SD; three grandchildren, Chris Cornish, Rapid City, SD, Loni McComber, Sioux Falls, SD, and Corey McComber, Sioux Falls, SD; one great-grandchild: Andrea Cornish, Viborg, Denmark; sisters, Lylah (Stan) Swanson, Sun City West, AZ, and Gaylee (Leo) Thorsness, Madison,
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Ida Evangeline ‘Vange’ Renshaw AL; sister-in-law, Laurice (Ernie) Ison, Torrance, CA; and many loving nieces, grandnieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. In addition to her husband Bob, her brother, Clarence “Kay” Anderson preceded her in death. Funeral Services are at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at Oak Hills Baptist Church, 6201 South Lyncrest Avenue, Sioux Falls. Visitation will follow the funeral service, from noon to 2 p.m. at the church All are welcome to celebrate Vange’s life.
Correction In last week’s Copper Basin News, Preston Sanchez was misidentified as Dustin Sanchez. The CBN regrets the error.
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