Darlene (Bauer)
Quashnick
Funeral services for Darlene Quaschnik age 93 of Mobridge,
will be at 10:30 AM, Friday, October 18, 2019 at the First
Baptist Church in Mobridge. Burial will be at Greenwood
Cemetery under the direction of Kesling Funeral Home of
Mobridge. Visitation will be one hour prior to services.
Darlene passed away Saturday, October 12, 2019 Prairie
Heights Healthcare in Aberdeen, SD.
Darlene Malinda Bauer was born at home on the farm near
Zeeland, ND to Christ and Bertha (Pfeiffer) Bauer on May
15, 1926. She was the second child born into a family that
would eventually include five brothers and Darlene, the
only girl. She was baptized on June 6, 1926 at Zion
Lutheran Church in Zeeland and confirmed there on June 23,
1940. She attended grade school in Zeeland graduating from
Zeeland High School in 1945.
At age 19, on December 23, 1945 she married LuVern
Quaschnik in Zeeland, ND. The Lord blessed their marriage
with 69 years together. They made their home in Mobridge
where Darlene worked for a short time at Larson Jewelry
Store and then for MDU for many years until her
retirement.
Darlene loved to golf and play cards, and she and LuVern
spent many years enjoying these hobbies with their
friends. She and LuVern would golf as often as they could,
not only in Mobridge, but also in the winter in Arizona.
Evidence of this could be seen by her dark tan from late
spring until they returned from Arizona.
While not having children of their own, Darlene and LuVern
always opened their home to nieces and nephews and their
friends, especially the ones from Northwestern Lutheran
Academy in Mobridge. One was always greeted with “Come in,
come in!” and “you’re our kids!” She had an ever ready
supply of ice-cream with homemade hot fudge topping,
chocolate chip cookies, fudge, and a vegetable crisper
drawer in her refrigerator full of candy! Their home was
always a haven and one was always welcome. She was a great
cook, an immaculate housekeeper, a great hostess, and a
loving and devoted wife. (She also had a great love for
the little neighbor dog next door and she and LuVern would
give it rides around town in their car).
In their retirement years Darlene and LuVern spent many
wonderful winters in Casa Grande, AZ with their friends
from Mobridge.
Darlene’s greatest love was her abiding love for her
Savior. Her worn Bible and Meditations book were always
open on the end table beside her chair. In her last years
as her memory failed her and LuVern passed away, life
became harder for her, but she was always ready to go home
to heaven to be with her Savior. II Timothy 4:7 would
describe her now. “I have fought the good fight, I have
finished the race, I have kept the faith.” By God’s grace,
she has. She is home.
Surviving Darlene are her brother, Jim Bauer, of Aberdeen,
SD and her sister-in-law, Lila Wockenfuss, also of
Aberdeen and numerous nieces and a nephew.
Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband
LuVern, four brothers- Hugo, Gilbert, Arnold and Tommy and
a sister in infancy.
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