Nicholas "Nick" Feller
Nicholas "Nick" Feller, age 81, of Wall, S.D., died on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, at the Rapid City Regional Hospital.
Nicholas Duane "Nick" Feller was born March 9, 1935, in Rapid City, the oldest son of Nick and Elsie (Bloom) Feller.
He received his first 12 years of education at Quinn, graduating in 1953 from Quinn High School. After graduation, he worked a few years before going to college at Black Hills State where he graduated in 1959.
Nick married Carlene Freeman in Higgings, Texas, on June 1, 1955, and to this union was born one son, Nicholas Jay, and two daughters, Jana Lea and Marli Marie.
On Oct. 5, 1968, he married Sandra Gail Schroeder in Denver, Colo. They had one son, Robbie Joe.
Nick taught high school business subjects and coached at Interior, S.D., Coalstrip, Mont., and Wall, S.D., from September 1959 through 1978. He was chosen Outstanding Teacher of the Year (in Wall High School) for 1969-70. He was also selected to appear in the 1970 Edition of Outstanding Young Men of America.
Nick went to work as an agricultural loan officer for Rapid City Production Credit Association in the Philip office in October 1978 and continued with them until February 1986. He then went to work for the First National Bank of Philip as an agricultural loan officer and retired from the bank in April of 2001.
Nick was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church of Wall and a member of the Knights of Columbus. He was a life member of the South Dakota Buckaroos and a member of the South Dakota Thoroughbred Association. He was a member of the Wall Rodeo Association for 10 years and was a state director of the S.D. High School Rodeo Association for seven years. He ranched with his brother, James, until 1974 when James passed away. He raised his own thoroughbred racehorses and ran them in South Dakota, Minnesota and Arizona.
Survivors include his wife, Sandy, of Wall; two sons, Nicholas J. Feller and his wife, Robin, Engelwood, Colo., and Rob Feller and his wife, Carey, Sioux Falls; two daughters, Jana Lea and her husband, Scott Jones, Midland, and Marli King of Harrisburg; six grandchildren, Nicholas Jensen Feller, Matthew (Brianna) Jones, Maraya and Christopher King, and Arianna and Aston Feller; two great-granddaughters, Jordyn and Jacey Jones; one brother, Bob Feller and his wife, Janet, Rapid City; several nieces and nephews; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Nick was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, James and Michael Feller; and three sisters, Kathleen Daly, Marilyn Lytle and Linda Hook.
Mass of Christian burial was celebrated Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Wall High School Gym in Wall.
Interment with Buckaroo procession was held at the Wall Cemetery.
A memorial has been established to Juvenile Diabetes Fund.
Arrangements were with Rush Funeral Home of Wall.