As I think back, we had a very stable life and whatever we did it was always together as a family.”Įsther attended Augustana Academy in Canton, SD, before returning to graduate from Philip High School. I would crawl up on the bed and go to sleep listening to the music. She wrote that, “People didn’t travel very far at that time so the church was the hub of social activities, and since Mama played the piano and Daddy played drums everyone would sing and dance. Esther was a prolific writer and poet, capturing many events during her life including the memory that she, “grew up in The (Great) Depression, but by the time she was old enough for it to have much of an impression on her things were starting to get better”. She went to grade school at Plainview School. She grew up near Hilland with her parents and two sisters (Ilene and Jeanette) and one brother (Donald). Esther was confirmed in the Lutheran Church June 20, 1943, by Pastor Dale Simons. Later the family joined the Lutheran Church at Hilland, SD, and were members there until it closed in 1969. She was baptized in 1929 at the Presbyterian Church at Hardingrove, SD.

Ferguson was born November 26, 1928, to Harold and Martha (Edwards) Ferguson in Philip, SD, at the Enin Hospital.

Interment will follow at the Masonic Cemetery in Philip.Įsther L. Saturday, May 20, at First Lutheran Church in Philip with Pastor Cindy Bisser officiating. Friday, May 19, at Rush Funeral Home in Philip.įuneral services will be held 2:00 p.m. Esther Knutson, age 94, of Philip, South Dakota, died on Monday, at Monument Health Hospice in Rapid City.

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