

SERVICE ABOVE SELF
Custer, SD 57730
United States of America

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Rotary International is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to bring peace and stability to the world by providing water and sanitation, disease prevention and treatment, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy, economic and community development, peace and conflict prevention/resolution. One of the major commitments is to eradicate polio from the face of the world. Our motto: Service Above Self.
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Verl married Kathy in 1971 and transplanted her (a native Oregonian) to the farm in eastern SD for eight years. Then they moved back to Oregon where Verl worked in a John Deere dealer organization for 29 years. Verl retired April 1, 2009 and built a home on Emerald Road north of Custer. Verl and Kathy enjoy hunting, fishing in Alaska (and anywhere where the fishing is good), and flying. They were also members of the Custer Lutheran Fellowship. Verl first became a Rotary member with the Newberg Rotary Club in Oregon in 1991. He had received his first Paul Harris Fellow from RI President Bill Huntley in 1994 at the Rotary International Convention in Portland, Ore. Verl and Kathy (a multiple Paul Harris Fellow) have one daughter, Tanya, (a Paul Harris Fellow) who lives in Nampa, Idaho, where she teaches the third grade.


To his wife Ramona, and family, our condolences.


She served on the Boards of many nonprofit organizations in the fields of education, housing, and women’s issues including the Sioux Falls Housing and Redevelopment Commission, South Dakota Housing Development Authority, YWCA, Habitat for Humanity, United Way and Volunteers of America. She also served on the Boards of the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Rotary. She served two terms on the Sioux Falls School Board, worked as a financial services representative for her husband’s business and became President/CEO the Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation in 1995. She retired from that position in 2006. Both the School Board and Community Foundation were works that matched Sue’s passions, and she considered these opportunities two of the turning points in her life.

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