Melville Ekroth, 63, of Winner, SD passed away on Friday, December 14, 2018 at the Winner Regional Health Care Center in Winner. Funeral will be held on Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 2:00PM at the First Christian Church in Winner. Burial will follow in the Winner City Cemetery. A visitation will be held one hour prior to funeral service.
It's easy to say that Melville Ekroth Jr. survived by his sister, brother, and numerous others including four human grand-babies and five "fur" babies, but it seems more important to say the hard things. These are the things that not everyone may have known. Dad got two extra daughters, Glory and Betsy, when his own daughters reached fifth grade. He sat through seven seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer , twice, to appease his grown adult daughter. After Melissa's daughters were born, he would drive five hours down to them just to spend the night with the babies and drive back the next day to be back home for the cows. Many nights, Dad came to town with a calf in his pick-up to both keep an eye on it and to be home with his babies. He marveled at the things his son could capture with a camera and complained about not having hard copies to show off. Mel may have been the man running from Grossenburg's and Runnings covered in an inch of mud, but he was more than that and the hole left by his absence will be felt for a long time.