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Eva May Warren

8/31/1918 - 3/30/2013

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Obituary For Eva May Warren

Eva May Warren, 94, Rapid City, died Saturday, March 30, 2013, at Westhills Village Retirement Center, Rapid City. Visitation will be 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at Behrens-Wilson Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Thursday, April 4th at the funeral home, with Pastor Bruce Baum officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. View Cemetery. Eva May Warren was born August 31, 1918, in Manchester Center, VT to Jack and Amy May (Harris) Morgan. After her father returned from service in World War I, her parents farmed near Seroco, Oliver County, ND until they moved to Wasta, SD. They settled in Rapid City when she was in first grade. Eva grew up in Rapid City and graduated from Rapid City High School in 1936. She attended South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Eva was married to Floyd H. Warren on March 14, 1939, just before a South Dakota blizzard. They were married in a double ceremony with Floyd’s cousin, Wayne Warren, and Eva’s sister, Emma Jean. Eva and Floyd ranched south of Rapid City 64 years. They square danced and taught round dances for 43 years in many square dance clubs in the area and were among organizers of the Black Hills street dance held annually outdoors in front of the city auditorium. The dance drew participants and spectators from many surrounding states. Eva was an accomplished seamstress and made custom draperies for residences and businesses in Rapid City for 30 years. She also enjoyed reading, crafts, photography, knitting, rug making, crosswords, playing pool and Wii bowling. She was a member of the CowBelles beef producer auxiliary, Let’s Go Extension Club, bowling leagues, and Green Thumb Garden Club. Eva is survived by one son, Thomas C. and Brenda (Stirling) Warren, Rapid City; one daughter, Janet L. and Richard Bradbury, Rutland, N.D.; grandchildren, Michael S. and Cyndi (Wells) Warren, and their daughter, Maia, Los Alamos, N.M., Randall F. Warren, Sioux Falls, S.D., Curtis W. Bradbury, Bismarck, N.D., and Karri L. (Bradbury) and Mark Springer, their daughter, Samantha, and son, Nathan, Bismarck, ND. She is also survived by cherished nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd, her parents, Jack and Amy Morgan, her sisters, Emma Jean Warren and Lucille Severson. Eva’s Scottish grandmother, who lived her life in Vermont, lived to 10 days less than 94 years. Eva lived in the present time, regardless her age, with endless gratitude for friends and family. Her nine years at Westhills Village looked south toward the ranch where she had lived, loved, and raised her family. She woke early and often spoke of the beauty of the sunrise. Her life spanned an era from dirt roads and the dust of the Depression to the space age. Her mind soared with airplane contrails and she was awed by space travel. She lived to see her grandchildren pioneer in the modern frontiers of astrophysics, biological technology, natural resources biological conservation and archeology.

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