Leona Storms

A Mass of Christian burial for Leona Storms was held on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Winner, SD. Burial was in the St. Boniface Cemetery in Clearfield, SD. Mason Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Leona Lavern Quick Storms was born March 30, 1928 to Elmer and Juliette (Schultz) Quick in their home in Tripp County, SD. The family moved to rural Hot Springs, SD where she attended grade school. She attended her early high school years in Sturgis, SD before they moved back to the Clearfield area, where she then graduated from Colome High School in 1946.

Leona taught grade school until her marriage to Donald Storms on December 27, 1948, to which seven children were born. She went back to teaching school in 1968, and over a ten year span, spent ten weeks each summer earning her bachelor’s degree in teaching at Southern State College in Springfield, SD. Even though she was gone during the week, she still managed to raise a huge garden and a couple hundred chickens each summer. She also cooked a big dinner every Sunday for the family before she headed back to Springfield for her week of classes. Her mother’s failing health in 1990 prompted her decision to retire from teaching so she could move her mother into their home to care for her.

Leona’s greatest joy was having the grandchildren spend the weekends at the farm with her, and cooking for the large family gatherings.

Leona Storms, age 96, of Winner, SD, passed away on Thursday, September 12, 2024 at the Winner Regional Long-Term Care Center in Winner, SD.

She is survived by her children: Anita, (Ken) Curtis, Dave (Shelley) Storms, Leon (Connie) Storms, Hugh (Toni) Storms, Carmen (Keith) Kaiser, Arnold (Deb) Storms, and Julie (Kent) Hossle; sisters: Rita Carr, Carol Keogh, Connie (Bill) Porter; sister-in-law Sharon Quick; brothers Pat (Cheryl) Quick, and Richard (Karen) Quick; 20 grandchildren and spouses; 37 great-grandchildren; 7 great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; mother and father in-law Leonard and Mabel Storms; husband Donald; sisters and brother-inlaw Marie (Walt) Lamprecht, Donna (Frank) Magers, Donovan (Betty) Quick, Polly (Mel) Oster, Wilbert Quick, Sandy (Lyle) VanMatre and Ivan (Jeanne) Quick; sisters-in-law Mamie (Lloyd) Crane, Clara (Joe) Frank, Gen (Lloyd) Fast, Emerald (Jim) Diez, Cecilia (Raymond) Kartak, Mary (Martin) Jorgensen; and brothers-in-law Leo (Ruth) Storms, Frank Carr, Don Keogh; grandson Chase Edwin Storms and greatgranddaughter Sophia Rae Storms.