Darleen Bauer age 83, of Mitchell, died Sunday July 1, 2007 under hospice care in Pipestone, MN. Funeral services will be 10:00 AM Thursday at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church. Visitation will be Wednesday from 3 to 6 PM at the Will Funeral Chapel with a prayer service at 6:00 PM. Burial will be in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Artesian, SD. Darleen Alvera Bauer was born to Herman and Alma (Heinrich) Schefsky July 28, 1923 at Forestburg, S.D. She attended country school to the fourth grade and graduated from Forestburg High School in 1940. She continued to live at the family farm to help her parents while her brother served in the Military Service. She then attended school at the South Dakota Beauty Academy in Sioux Falls, S.D. where she worked as a beautician. She also worked as a billing clerk at Sioux Road Equipment in Sioux Falls. On June 25, 1949 she was married to Alfred James Bauer at Sioux Falls, S.D. where they lived until 1954 when they moved to a farm in Beadle County. In 1960 they moved to a farm in Sanborn County. In 1966 they purchased a farm near Forestburg, S.D. where they lived until her husband passed away August 1, 1998. She then moved to Mitchell, S.D. where she resided until her death. She was a member of the Holy Spirit Church and Altar Society and the American Legion Auxiliary. She is survived by three daughters, Judy Zoss and friend Bob Hyatt, Canby, MN, Mary Bauer, Coeur dAlene, ID and Jeralee Moschell and husband, Daniel, Delta Junction, Alaska; nine grandchildren, Karl (Mark) Antony, Marshall, M.N., Danette (Dennis) Smit, Edgerton, M.N., Clinton (Esther) Zoss, Beresford, S.D., Nathan, Andrew, Nicholas, Ashley, Dustin and Daniel Moschell, Delta Junction, Alaska; eight great grandchildren, Aaron, Sara and Jared Antony, Jordyn, Paetyn and Brenalyn Smit, and Samantha and Aschlie Zoss; a sister, Edna (Victor) Olson, Artesian, S.D., and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a brother, Orville Schefsky and five sisters, Velma (Arden) Moore, Freda (Mark) Peterson, Amelia (Walter) Jensen, Elsie (James) Sneesby and Pauline (Bernard) Eining, and a brother Edward and a sister Margaret in infancy, a sister-in-law, Irene Schefsky, five brothers-in-law, Arden Moore, Mark Peterson, Walter Jensen, James Sneesby and Bernard Eining.