Ingebert Fauske, rancher and farmer and long-time resident of western Jackson County, died July 24, 1998, at the age of 90 years, 1 month and 16 days.  He was born June 8, 1908, to George and Constance (nee Solie) Fauske on the Fauske homestead, Quinn, South Dakota.

He attended Augustana College, Sioux Falls, and graduated from South Dakota State University, Brookings in 1937, with a degree in Agricultural Economics, Agronomy and Rural Sociology.  He married Paula Kraft in June 1937, at Quinn.

After graduation, he served five years as Extension Agent for the US Indian Service on the Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico and Arizona, and as Assistant Supervisor for the Farm Security Administration in Perkins and Harding Counties.  After which, he returned to the farming and ranching operation on the Fauske homestead in western Jackson County.

Throughout his lifetime, Fauske was active in various farm, community, governmental and educational affairs.  He was Charter President of the Golden West Telephone Cooperative in Wall, and continued to serve as President for 17 years.  In addition, he was Vice-Chairman of SD Association of Telephone Cooperatives.  He was appointed as the SD Governor's representative to the Federal Public Lands Law Review Commission.  He was also a past member of South Dakota's first State Board of Education, South Dakota State University Advisory Council, and South Dakota State University Agricultural Advisory Committee.

He was a member of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wall and served as past chairman of the congregation and as an elder.

Grateful for having shared his life are his beloved wife, Paula of 61 years; seven children, Norman Fauske and his wife, Lorraine of Wall; Esther Schrunk and her husband, Robert of Marshall, Minnesota; David Fauske and his wife, Donna of Wall; Barbara Swanson and her husband, Robert of Englewood, Colorado; Mary Tweden and her husband, Dale of Highlands Ranch, Colorado; Karen Lamback and her husband, James of Schenectady, New York; and Paul Fauske of Aurora, Colorado; his brother Sig Fauske of Borger, Texas; his sister, Ann McMahon of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; his sister-in-law, Mary Ann Fauske of Sioux Falls; 19 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; 12 nieces and nephews; and a host of other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and one sister.

Services
Tuesday, July 28, 1998
10:00 a.m.
First Lutheran Church
Wall, South Dakota

Officiating
Pastor Ray Greenseth

Music
Lisa Fauske and Kathy Clark - Organists
Steve and Wanda Goodrich - Vocal Duet
First Lutheran Church Choir

Music at Cemetery
Vernon Kraft - Paul Goldhammer - Eddie Eisenbraun
Norman Eisenbraun - Dan Dartt - Dennis Sieler
Walter Schaefer

Ushers
Jim Pahl - Norman Eisenbraun

Active Pallbearers
Robert Schrunk - Mark Fauske
Timothy Fauske - Anthony Hurd - Jonathan Hurd
James Lamback - Lyle Jarvis - Kenneth Jarvis - David Purvis
Bradley Purvis - Jerry Fauske - Wesley Fauske

Interment
Wall Cemetery
Wall, South Dakota