R ita Stroschine, 97, of Winner, SD passed away on Saturday, July 20, 2019 at the Winner Regional Long-Term Care Facility in Winner, SD.  Funeral service will be held on Friday, July 26, 2019 at 1:00 pm at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Winner.  Burial will follow in the Colome City Cemetery.  A visitation will be held on Thursday, July 25, 2019 at the Trinity Lutheran Church from 6-7 pm with a prayer service beginning at 7:00 pm.

Rita Erna (Amick) Stroschine was born on March 5, 1922 to Charles and Jennie Amick.  She had 3 brothers; Lynne, Ivan and Carroll.  Rita attended Kansas Flats country school through the 8th grade.

On June 4th, 1938 Rita was united in marriage to Carl Stroschine.  To this union 3 daughters were born; Gaye, Jeanne and Connie, as well as a son who died at birth.

Rita was baptized in the fall of 1938, and began confirmation at Zion Lutheran Church in Colome with Pastor Sabrosky in 1938.

Then Carl and Rita moved to Nebraska and Pastor Sabrosky moved to Sioux City, so he mailed her catechism studies and she was confirmed "through the mail".  Since Pastor was serving in the Sioux City area, she was a confirmed member of the Sioux City Church.

Carl and Rita lived in Nebraska until 1946, when they moved back to Tripp County, they purchased some land and farmed with her parents.  She remained on the farm until 1992 when she moved to Winner, eventually moving to the nursing home in January of 2018.

Rita was a member of Zion Lutheran and Trinity Lutheran Churches. Rita's faith was exactly as the Apostle Paul recorded in Ephesians chapter 2 vs 8&9.  For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, not by any works, it is a free gift from God, so that no one can boast.  Rita believed that God loved her so much that He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to seal her eternal salvation through his death on Calvary's cross and His resurrection on the third day.  Rita's faith was as simple as this, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit did everything, and she did nothing to earn her eternal Life in Heaven.

Rita entered into her eternal home early Saturday morning, July 20th, 2019 at the age of 97, at the WRHCC Long-Term Care.

Rita is survived by daughters Jeanne (Roger) Pochop and Connie (Stan) Bicek, 10 grandchildren; Brian Hambek, Pam & Terry Anderson, Don & Naomi Hambek, Tony & Tina Bicek, Sandy & Doug Beck, Karey & Craig Thieman, Jamey & Lisa Stroschine, Myra & Dan Stoney, Mike & Tami Pochop and Sandra Gillispie.  Also, surviving are 27 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her parents, husband Carl, three brothers, infant son, and daughter Gaye and son-in-law Lyle Hambek.

Rita leaves a legacy of strong faith and unconditional love of her family and will be dearly missed by us all.