Daryl L. Crane

The funeral service for Daryl Crane, 60, of Mansfield, SD, will be 10:00am, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, with Pastor Bret Bierman officiating. Burial at Riverside Cemetery. Daryl died Tuesday, January 2, 2024, at home. The family requests casual wear for his service.
Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.
Daryl Crane was born August 15, 1963, to W. Maurice and Mary A. (Nash) Crane in Aberdeen, SD. He grew up on the family farm near Scatterwood Lake, rural Mansfield, SD and graduated from Cresbard High School in 1982. Daryl loved farming and lived his whole life on the farm. He enjoyed working on the family farm, as well as working for several area farmers.
Daryl enjoyed fishing and the great outdoors. Watching the geese around the lake was a favorite pass time of his. Daryl liked tinkering and fixing small things.. He was known for being humble and kind.
Grateful for having shared Daryl's life are his mother, Mary, brother Stephen Crane, and several cousins.
Preceding Daryl in death are his father, W. Maurice; his grandparents: Leslie and Vivian Crane and Earl and Edith Nash; his brother Leon Crane; his aunt Dorothy (Orville) Shonrock, and his uncles and aunt: Keith Nash, Oscar Nash, Gordon Nash, Dale Nash, Elmer Nash, and Isabel Means.
In lieu of flowers, the family prefers memorials.
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