Gloria J. Kelly

Gloria Joan Pipal was born June 9, 1939, at Black Hills General Hospital in Rapid City, the daughter of Ernest A. and Marcella (Shull) Pipal. She was raised on the family homestead twenty miles southwest of Wall, South Dakota. Gloria attended eight years of grade school at the rural Quinn Table and North Star Schools, graduating from Wall High School in 1957.

Gloria was united in marriage to Donald M. Kelly on June 9, 1957, at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in Quinn. They ranched in the Wall and Quinn area and they were also engaged in various businesses involving tourism.

Gloria was a twenty-five year member of the Wall Volunteer Ambulance Service, constantly on call, making many ambulance runs and also serving as the treasurer. Her greatest passion was her service to others, most importantly her husband, children, grandchildren, and many others who lived with the Kelly’s during their school years.

Gloria was a member of the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Wall.

Grateful for having shared her life include her husband Donald Kelly of Wall; two sons Dr. Pat Kelly and his wife Carla of Bowman, North Dakota, and Jason Kelly and his wife Brooke of Anchorage, Alaska; one daughter Dawn Richter and her husband Troy of Quinn; eleven grandchildren, Kaitlyn, Megan, and Erin Kelly, Paiton Kelly, Dalton, Kelsey, Trey, Cameron, and Taylor Richter, and Jordan and Colton Kelly; a brother Ernest "Butch" Pipal and his wife Linda of Wall; a sister Betty Alishouse and her husband Glenn of Wall; a daughter in-law Kiya Kelly of Wall; two girls that were like daughters to Gloria, Susie Cuppy of Mitchell, and Stevie Kjerstad of Quinn; special friends Glenda Knapp and Lucille Holsether; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Gloria was preceded in death by a daughter Kristy Kelly; two sons Kim Kelly and James Kelly; a grandson Jori Dean Kelly; and her parents.

Visitation was held 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Friday, February 4, with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. all at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Wall,

Mass of Christian Burial was held 10:00 a.m. Saturday, February 5, at St. Patrick’s with Father Leo Hausmann as celebrant.

Interment was in the Wall Cemetery.

A memorial is established to the Cheyenne River Breaks 4-H Building in Wall.

MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL
10:00 a.m. Saturday, February 5, 2005
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Wall, South Dakota

CELEBRANT
Father Leo Hausmann

MUSIC
Rita & Gene Patterson
Tom Carmichael – Vocalist
"In The Garden"
"Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"

LECTOR
Melanie Shull

ALTAR SERVERS
Bill Shull – Mary Shull

USHERS
Jim Bloom – Kevin Alishouse – Tom Shull

PALLBEARERS
All Wall Volunteer Ambulance Members

HONORARY PALLBEARERS
All Relatives and Friends in Attendance

INTERMENT
Wall Cemetery
Wall, South Dakota

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes!"

And that is dying.

Henry Van Dyke

Service Details

MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL
10:00 a.m. Saturday, February 5, 2005
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Wall, South Dakota

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