The funeral service for Elta Mae Breitag, 88, of Aberdeen, SD, will be 10:00am, Monday, January 29, 2024 at Arise Church, with Pastor Joe Hauer officiating. Burial at Green Mound Cemetery, Leola, SD, at 1:30pm. Elta Mae died Thursday, January 25, 2024, at home in Aberdeen, SD surrounded by her loving family.
Visitation will be 4:00-7:00pm Sunday, followed by a prayer service at 7:00pm, at Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, 1111 South Main Street.
Elta Mae Fee was born at home in Cottonwood Community, LA, on November 24, 1935 to Henry & Tressie (Stephens) Fee. While working as a waitress, she met and married her husband, Ronald Breitag, when he was stationed in the Air Force in Lake Charles, Louisiana. They moved to Leola, South Dakota where her husband was from, then Aberdeen and Stratford before moving to a farm north of Frederick. Together they raised six children. They have twenty-one grandchildren and thirty great-grandchildren. Their life was very full and busy.
Mae enjoyed cooking and baking, especially at Christmas, and loved to give to others in any way possible. She enjoyed playing cards with family and Bingo with friends. Mae went to breakfast every morning at Sammy’s and enjoyed picnics of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The thing she loved most in life was being with her family. She loved all her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and always enjoyed seeing them. She was a loving mother to her six children, who lovingly brought her home to spend her last moments before going to be with God. She was well cared for by her grandchildren and is greatly loved and greatly missed.
Family would like to thank her Sanford Care Team, her girls at Bethesda @ Home, and all her friends at the Sherman Apartments.
Grateful for having shared Mae’s life are her children: Richard (Diane) Breitag, Judy (Robert) Husby, Brenda (Douglas) Sanders, Cindy Moyers, Carrie (Ryan) Cordie, and Tammy (Nick) Hemmestad; grandchildren: Sarah Breitag, Steven (Dawn) Breitag, Autumn (Tyler) Faber, Shane (Jenae) Gross, Jennifer (Jeff) Tichi, Ryan (Deserae) Husby, James Husby, Kevin (Mandy) Husby, Christian Sanders, Douglas Sanders, Jr., Christopher (Susan) Stange, Christina (Dale) Petrik, Jessica (Adam) Huber, Jamie (Joe) Rehlak, Tiffany (Joshua) Hickison, Amanda Moyers, Madison Cordie, McKenzie Cordie, Kelso Hemmestad (dec.), Keeley Hemmestad, and Kinlyn Hemmestad; thirty great-grandchildren; and brother-in-law: Harold (Kris) Breitag.
Preceding Mae in death are her parents: Henry & Tressie Fee; husband: Ronald Breitag; siblings: Gertrude Turner, Adele Paker, JT Fee, TJ Fee, Wanda Hoitenga, and Linda Whittington; and grandchild: Kelso Hemmestad.
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