Funeral services for Fred Richter, age 86, of Timber Lake will be at 2 PM MT Friday, January 24, 2014, at the United Parish in Timber Lake. Burial will be at the Timber Lake Cemetery under the direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge. Visitation will start at 5 PM with a prayer service at 7 PM at the church on Thursday, January 23, 2014. Fred passed away Saturday, January 18, 2014 at the Mobridge Regional Hospital.

Fred Herman Emil Richter was born August 31, 1927 at home in Fredrick, SD to Herman & Hattie (Storm) Richter. As a young child he contracted polio and was sent on a train to Minneapolis for treatments. Fred attended school in Fredrick and then the family moved 16 miles north of Timber Lake in 1935 & he attended country school in Corson County completing the eighth grade. He met Mildred Hieb, they were united in marriage at Timber Lake at the St. Paul Lutheran Church on September 27, 1953. They were blessed with 60 years. They had many years of good times and hardship, but never complained. To this union was born Susan (Jack) Voller, Penny (Mike) Lemburg, Lyle Richter and Cherie (Tim) Leibel, they raised the kids north of Timber Lake on the home place. Fred farmed and ranched here all of his life except in 1969 he worked at the Dewey County Highway Department for a short time then returned to the farm. They lived there until October 30, 1992 when they moved to Timber Lake.
Ranching was Fred's life, he was a good steward of the land, livestock and wildlife. Growing up in the dirty 30s he learned to be very frugal and he could make almost anything out of scraps. Fred was a jack of all trades and often he would put his own work aside to help others.
Fred enjoyed hunting, fishing, trapping, camping, snowmobiling & spirited horses that would cover the ground.
He worked for the Corson County Highway Department on winters that there was a lot of snow, he would take care of his cattle and plow snow late into the nights.
Fred was involved in the SD Stock Growers Assn, he volunteered many years for the Days of 1910 rodeo running the rough stock return gate and a member and officer of the St. Paul Lutheran Church.
Fred is survived by: daughters Susan (Jack) Voller of Mobridge, Penny (Mike) Lemburg of Bison, Cherie (Tim) Leibel of Glencross, son Lyle Richter of Timber Lake; grandchildren; Josh (Karan) Lemburg, Hadley (Nicole) Lemburg, Tigh (Kelly), Tanner, and Hayley Leibel, Jaclyn and Marilyn Richter; great-grandchildren Kendal, Landon, Jaycie, Carter and Brynn Lemburg. Also surviving are two sisters May Torevell and Mary (Gordon) Chalmers; two brother-in-laws Norman (Betty) Hieb and Larry (Darlene) Hieb; sister-in-laws Irene Stoick and Joann Richter.
Preceding Fred in death are his parents Herman and Hattie (Storm) Richter, Wife Mildred (Hieb) Richter, Father & Mother In-Law David & Ida (Dikoff) Hieb, brother Ralph Richter, sister-in-law Leona Cromwell, brother in-laws; Wilfred "Goo" Stoick, Ralph Forest, Glen Torevell and Lawrence Cromwell & Niece Carol Richter.

CASKETBEARERS: Grandchildren
Josh Lemburg ~ Hadley Lemburg ~ Tigh Leibel ~ Tanner Leibel
Hayley Leibel ~ Jaclyn Richter ~ Marilyn Richter

Honarary Bearers are Henry Take The Gun, Larry Jacobs, the Golden Living Center Staff & Residents, the North Country Friends and Neioghbors, and Dr. Josh Henderson.