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Audrey Balcom Obituary
Audrey Jane Chesney was born Oct. 14, 1924, in Omaha, Neb., to Lee R. Chesney and Rena (Beach) Chesney. She graduated from high school in Lincoln, Neb., in 1943. Audrey married Everett Balcom on March 23, 1946, and they settled in Rapid City.
Audrey was a long-standing member of the First United Methodist Church and the Rapid City Society for Genealogy Research. Her interests included stamp collecting, square dancing, painting and genealogy.
She is survived by her husband of 65 years, Everett Balcom; their four children, Nancy (Randy) Crabtree of Edenton, N.C., Lester (Leslie) Balcom of Wheatland, Wyo., and Barbara (Floyd) Preszler and Carol (Scott) Lawhun, all of Rapid City; 16 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; her brother, Lee R. (Bette) Chesney Jr.; and her sister, Rena Lameyer.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and a grandson, Michael Crabtree.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, May 13, at the First United Methodist Church. Internment is at 10 a.m. at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis.
An online guestbook is available at www.blackhillsfuneralhome.com.
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Susan Green
May 10, 2011
Audrey showed me my very first census of my Dad's mother, whom I never knew, and opened up for me many years of research that many times made my day. She was a wonderful genealogist and I was blessed to have met her. My sympathies to her family. She was a wonderful woman.
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