Elsie Metz, 81
Elsie Metz, 81, of Brandon, died Friday, July 12, 2019, at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls. Funeral services will begin at 11 a.m., Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at Brandon Lutheran Church in Brandon. Visitation with family present to greet friends will be from 5-7 p.m., Tuesday, July 16, at George Boom Funeral Chapel in Brandon. Additional obituary will be available on Monday, July 15.
Left to cherish her memory are her children, Curtis (Jean) Metz of Sioux Falls, Brenda (Paul) Scott of Valley Springs, Peggy (Charles) Huffman of Tucson, Ariz., and Kristi (Scott) Swier of Gettysburg; 13 grandchildren, Joshua (Sarah) Pearce, Justin (Sarah) Pearce, Adam Metz, Kristine (Matt) Wiersma, Michael (Lyndsay) Scott, Charles Dustin (Jessica) Huffman, Dezirae (Robert) Anderson, Cassandra (Cory) Jenks, Whitney (Steven) Butt, Riley (Kristine) Swier, Cody (Chelsey Smith) Swier, Kaylee (Jacob) Kemnitz, and Brady (Cameron) Swier; 17 great-grandchildren, Emma, Mila, Owen, and Ava, Chet and Kolten, Douglas, Braelyn, Aven, Mathias, Alexandra, Mara, Elizabeth, and Jacob, and Orah, Brooklyn, and Eliza; brothers, Norman (JoAnn) Blaalid and Dennis (Sandy) Blaalid, all of Yankton; and sisters-in-law, Mary Ann Metz of California, Helen Metz and Marlys Blaalid, both of Yankton, and Jeanne Blaalid of Mitchell.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Laurence “Mick” Metz in 1995; parents, Edward and Esther (Evenson) Blaalid; and brothers, Arthur and Kenneth Blaalid.
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