The family is asked to meet at the church at 10 a.m. on Saturday.
Violet was born on Jan. 28, 1928, in Long Lake to Fred and Maggie (Rath) Leicht. She attended country school and lived on the farm. Violet loved to ride her pony, Pearl, and had a picture of her on the pony close by to remind her of those by-gone days.
Violet married Harold Oscar Fischer on Nov. 10, 1946. They lived in Long Lake on the Fischer family homestead, where they raised their four children. The farm was one mile north of Long Lake, where they lived until moving to Leola in 1975. While in Leola, Violet managed the Village apartments, worked on the Green Thumb Program at the school, worked at the Legion Club and the grocery store.
Violet was a member of St. James Lutheran Church in Leola and the American Legion Auxiliary, first in Long Lake and then later in Leola.
She moved from Leola to Henderson, Nev., in September 2010 to be closer to her daughter, Sharmain and her family, and to avoid South Dakota's winters.
Violet died on Monday, April 15, 2013, at Del Mar Gardens Nursing Home in Henderson, Nev., where she had been residing since June 2012.
Survivors include her children, Sharmain Mykleby (Dan) Bounds of Henderson, Nev.; Randy Fischer of Houston, Pa.; and Nancy Fischer (Roger Taylor) of St. Cloud, Minn.; sisters-in-law, Virginia Rath of Whitewood, S.D.; Darlene Sandmeier of Huron, S.D.; Olivia Schock and Elsie Geffre of Aberdeen, S.D.; 13 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren; cousins, nieces, nephews and many friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Harold; daughter, Paulette Waddell; three sisters, Leona Hoffman, Olive Rath and Alice Haupt; two sons-in-law, Merle (Bill) Waddell and Gordon Mykleby.
Honorary casketbearers will be her grandchildren. Memorials to St. James Lutheran Church are preferred rather than flowers.
The family has reserved a block of hotel rooms at the Ramada Hotel in Aberdeen, and we will be gathering at the hotel on Friday and Saturday nights.
Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, 1111 S. Main St., Aberdeen, is in charge of arrangements.
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