Rapid City Journal from Rapid City, South Dakota • A4

A4 Friday, September 7, 2018 Rapid City JouRnal 00 1 obituaries donald e. brandt, 80 box elder Lester L. mehrer, 73 belle Fourche William a. richards, 89 rapid City Carl riggins, 53 Coeur idaho mark r. rogers, 62 rapid City services Greg Carlson 3 p.m.

at american Legion in rhame, N.d. Barbara J. Cottier 1 p.m. at behrens-Wilson Funeral Home in rapid City Aletha Gauze 11:30 a.m. at black Hills National Ceme- tery near Sturgis Clayton Kjerstad 3 p.m.

at United methodist Church in Wall Iris J. Knapp 10 a.m. at Fu- neral Home in Hot Springs Hazel Kruse 2 p.m. at evanson Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon Barbara Rostad 2 p.m. at Osheim Schmidt Funeral Home in rapid City Barbara Rust 11 a.m.

Cdt at messiah Lutheran Church in murdo Dickie Sassman 11 a.m. at Chamberlain-mcCol- Funeral Home in Custer Donald E. Brandt BOX ELDER Donald E. Brandt, 80, died Sept. 3, 2018.

Black Hills Funeral Home of Sturgis Lester L. Mehrer BELLE FOURCHE Lester L. Mehrer, 73, died Sept. 1, 2018. Services will be at 10:30 a.m.

on Sept. 10, at St. James Lutheran Church. Burial will be at Pine Slope Cemetery. Leverington Funeral Home of the Northern Hills William A.

Richards RAPID CITY William A. Rich- ards, 89, died Sept. 5, 2018. He served in the U.S. Army.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 10, at Kingdom Hall of Witness, 1111 Oriole Drive. Burial will be at 10 a.m. on Sept.

11, at Pine Lawn Cem- etery. Kirk Funeral Home Carl Riggins Jr. COEUR ID Carl A. Riggins 53, died Aug. 23, 2018.

Yates Funeral Home Mark R. Rogers RAPID CITY Mark Rollin Rogers, 62, died Sept. 1, 2018. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. on Sept.

10, at Behrens-Wilson Funeral Home. JOHN ROGERS Associated Press Burt Reynolds, the hand- some film and television star known for his ac- claimed performances in and commercial hits such as and the and for an active off-screen love life which included relationships with Loni Anderson and Sally Field, has died at age 82. In a statement, his niece, Nancy Lee Hess, called his death Thursday although she acknowledged he had health issues. was tough. Anyone who breaks their tail bone on a river and finishes the movie is tough.

And who he Hess noted her kindness and generosity, and thanked of his amazing fans who have always supported and cheered him on, through all of the hills and valleys of his life and The mustached, smirk- ing Reynolds inspired a wide range of responses over his long, erratic ca- reer: critical acclaim and critical scorn, popular suc- cess and box office bombs. Reynolds made scores of movies, ranging from light- weight fare such as the hits Cannonball and and the to more serious films like Longest and Man Who Loved Cat He received some of the film highest and lowest honors. He was nominated for an Oscar for the Paul Thomas Anderson film about the pornography industry; won an Emmy for the TV series and was praised for his starring role in But he also was a frequent nominee for the Razzie, the tongue-in-cheek award for worst perfor- mance, and his personal life provided ongoing drama, particularly after an ac- rimonious divorce from Anderson in 1995. He had a troubled marriage to Judy Carne, a romance with Di- nah Shore and a relation- ship with Field damaged by his acknowledged jealousy of her success. Through it all he pre- sented a genial persona, of- ten the first to make fun of his own conflicted image.

career is not like a regular chart, mine looks like a heart he told The Associated Press in 2001. done over 100 films, and the only ac- tor who has been canned by all three networks. I epito- mize Born in Lansing, Mich- igan and raised in Florida, he was an all-Southern Conference running back at Florida State University in the 1950s. Reynolds ap- peared headed to the NFL until a knee injury and an automobile accident ended his chances. He dropped out of college and drifted to New York, where he worked as a dockhand, dance-hall bouncer, bodyguard and dish washer before return- ing to Florida in 1957 and enrolling in acting classes.

In the 1960s he made dozens of guest-star ap- pearances on such TV shows as Twilight and In the early 1970s, direc- tor John Boorman was im- pressed by how confidently Reynolds handled himself when subbing for Carson as host of Tonight Boorman thought he might be right for a film adaptation of James Dick- novel was an Oscar nominee for best picture and no film made him prouder. In his 2015 memoir Enough About he wrote that would be his choice could he put one of his movies in a time cap- sule. proved I could he wrote. But soon after filming was completed, he made a decision he never stopped regretting. While appear- ing on Tonight with Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, he agreed to her invitation, of- fered during a commercial break, to be the first male centerfold for her maga- zine.

The centerfold would appear on T-shirts, panties and other merchandise and Reynolds began receiving obscene fan mail. Reyn- performance in was snubbed by the movie academy. He starred in such films as Best Little Whorehouse in and three popular and the comedies, with co-stars including Field and Jackie Gleason. In the 1980s, his career was nearly destroyed when false rumors surfaced that he was infected with the AIDS virus, in the height of hysteria over the dis- ease. He had injured his jaw making the 1984 com- edy with Clint Eastwood.

Barely able to eat, he lost 50 pounds and suddenly looked emaci- ated. two years I get a he told the AP in 1990. He eventually regained his health, and in 1988 he married Anderson. But the couple divorced in 1995, with the pair ex- changing insults in print interviews and on televi- sion shows. Reynolds fi- nally paid her a $2 million settlement and a vacation home to settle the divorce.

He rebounded once again, this time with the role of porn movie impre- sario Jack Horner in gie which brought him some of his best re- views. He won a Golden Globe for best supporting ac- tor and received an Oscar nomination. He was dev- astated when the Oscar went to Robin Williams for Will once said that rather have a Heisman Trophy than an he wrote in his memoir. Burt Reynolds, star of film, TV and tabloids, dead at 82 JACK PLUNKETT, actor burt reynolds appears at the world premiere of during the South by Southwest Film Festival on march 12, 2016 in austin, texas. SHARON COHEN AND MARY HUDETZ Associated Press note: This is the second in a four-part series examining the problem of missing and murdered Native American women.

Leona LeClair Kinsey was a fiercely independent woman who could go pheas- ant hunting, serve the bird for dinner, then take the left- over feathers and turn them into an artistic gift. Her daughter, Carolyn De- Ford, remembers how also hunt deer, elk and an- telope and pick mushrooms and huckleberries near their home in La Grande, a rural community in the east- ern corner of the state. was confident in her ability to not need people to do simple things for De- Ford says, recalling how her mother would chop firewood and change her own tires. Kinsey was 45 when she disappeared from La Grande in October 1999. DeFord be- lieves her mother was likely a victim of foul play at the hands of a man she was sup- posed to meet who reportedly was a drug dealer.

His where- abouts are unknown all these years later. Kinsey had strug- gled with alcohol and drugs. A member of the Puyal- lup Tribe, Kinsey worked as a landscaper, a janitor and a motel housekeeper. She had a quirky sense of humor but also very dark and real concept of her daugh- ter recalls. knew there were bad and when her mother was in her early 20s, she was in a physically abusive relationship.

DeFord was 25 when her mother disappeared, and for nearly a decade, when- ever she met someone new, bring her mom up within minutes. was like I wore a nametag, my name is Carolyn. My mom is About 10 years ago, De- Ford held a memorial for her mother, telling other mourners that a day goes by that I miss In recent years, she has become an activist in the missing and murdered Native American women movement, establishing a Facebook page featuring dozens of cases and reaching out to families to say: so sorry that on this journey. I know the chaos that in right now. If anything I can do to help, let me She is still healing herself, but sharing her story, DeFord says, has given her purpose and a chance to raise awareness.

a way to be a voice for women who found theirs was Lakota Rae Renville was so shy as a teen that when she graduated high school she was reluctant to walk across the stage. She was a straight-laced girl who smoke cig- arettes, drink or take drugs, says her sister, Waynette. But her life took a dramatic turn after she met a man on- line in 2003 and moved from South Dakota to the Kansas City area. Lakota, a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe, told her sister that she had a boyfriend who had two jobs, so she need to work. She kept secret most everything else about her life.

Two years later, just 22 years old, Lakota was mur- dered. Her badly bruised, naked body was wrapped in a carpet pad, rolled in a blan- ket and dumped in a gravel lot in Independence, Mo. No one has been arrested. Police say Lakota was a prostitute who worked in Kansas City, but Waynette believes her sister was a victim of sex trafficking a growing concern among law enforcement and activists in Indian Country. had to be forced into that line of she says.

would never, ever do For five years, Waynette called the police every week, hoping a new tip or DNA would lead to killer. She did not want her sister forgotten. was Waynette says. had lots of friends and In January 2017, she says, her boyfriend con- tacted her and denied having anything to do with death. Waynette has little hope now that the case will ever be solved.

Lakota was buried on the South Dakota reservation. Her headstone is engraved with an angel. just not the same Waynette says. agonizing to not know who did that, why they did At first, Waynette says she was angry with the world because of murder. Now, she says, breaking into tears, she feels differently, believing that whoever killed her sister deal with this either in this lifetime or the think about her every Rita Papakee told her mother she loved her, then turned and walked into an Iowa casino.

That was in January 2015. She been seen since. Iris Roberts says her daughter, then 41, struggled with a drinking problem but would always call her when she went off with friends. But after she dropped her daughter off at the Meskwaki Bingo Casino in Tama, Iowa, there was nothing. Searchers scoured a wooded area and nearby towns.

A private in- vestigator was hired by the family. Last May 5, on the Na- tional Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Na- tive Women and Girls, the Meskwaki Tribe helped or- ganize a Her walk to raise money for a continued search. think about her every her mother says. pray every night and I pray every morning that going to be found, wherever at. I know I have to take care of her kids.

what keeps me Papakee was a mother of four; her two sons and two daughters range from 11 to 25. She loved to bake snickerdoodle cake was her specialty and go all- out celebrating the holidays with her kids, searching for pumpkins at Halloween, planning New parties for them. Since her disap- pearance, her oldest daugh- ter has given birth to a son. Roberts says her daugh- ter had been in and out of treatment for her alcohol use and later got involved with a man who was using methamphetamines. heard all kinds of rumors, including the possibility she was a victim of sex traffick- ing.

But she has no answers, despite a $25,000 reward for information. Roberts says, to live each day going on, but not knowing where she is and what hap- pened to Tanya Begay The last time Tanya Begay spoke to her mother she had called early one morning in March 2017, saying she planned to travel from the tiny Arizona town of Leupp back to her home near Gallup, N.M. a drive that taken just a few hours, from one part of the vast Navajo Nation to another. A day earlier, Begay had made a stop near Tohatchi, N.M., to visit a home with her boyfriend, marking the last time any of her relatives had seen her, according to a police report. Her mother re- ported her disappearance to officers in at least three different towns, including Gallup, where Begay had an apartment.

first, we were just like, well she probably just went to Phoenix or some- where like says Eliza Toddy, a longtime friend of be But a police report says mother believed she might be in danger. The 37-year-old Navajo woman, whom Toddy de- scribed as has two children. She had been close to her parents, and liked to text or call family and friends frequently before she vanished, Toddy said. Freda Knowshisgun Freda family on Crow Indian Reservation began to worry something truly terrible may have happened when an aunt passed away in the fall of 2016 and she come home. Knowshisgun, a mother of three, always had been known to be especially gifted and bright in her large, tight- knit family, says her older sister, Frances.

But for about a year before she vanished, she had started to come and go from her home, sometimes disappearing for days at a time, as she fell on tough times and hung around with wrong her sister says. In November 2016, her mother reported her miss- ing to police, but officers initially told the family there might be little they could do since Freda was an adult and there was no known crime, according to her sister. seemed like they helping at all be- cause she jumped into the wrong Frances Knowshisgun says. The FBI has since become involved in the search for Freda, but every day that gone, the anguish over where she might be and what may have happened to her weighs on her family. sits on our chest and her sister says.

Haunting stories behind missing posters of Native women VIA AP this combination of images from various law enforcement agencies and organizations shows posters of missing and murdered Native american women and girls as of September 2018. No one knows precisely how many there are because authorities have reliable statistics. but some call it an epidemic, a long-standing problem linked to inadequate resources and a confusing jurisdictional maze. OBITUARIES.