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Submitted: 5/29/21 • Approved: 6/4/21 • Last Updated: 6/7/21 • R272271-G272271-S3
Chris "Red" Hargens
August 08, 1923 - November 25, 2020
Chris “Red” Hargens, 97, of Sioux Falls, SD passed away Wednesday November 25, 2020 at Dougherty Hospice, in Sioux Falls, SD.
Funeral Service will be at 10:30 am Tuesday, December 1, at Miller Funeral Home-Downtown, 507 S. Main Ave., Sioux Falls, SD with interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Sioux Falls, SD. This service will be live streamed and you may watch this by going to the funeral home website and clicking on the link.
There will be open visitation from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Monday, November 30, at the funeral home. The family will not be present during this time due to Covid. Masks will be required at both of these events.
Claus Christian Hargens was born in rural Alexandria, SD on August 8th, 1923. He moved to Mitchell, SD at the age of five, and attended school in Mitchell through high school. Upon graduation from high school, he was employed by the telephone company as a construction worker in South Dakota. He married Elizabeth J Dardis in 1943, and that same year he was drafted into the Army during World War II. He served with the 932nd Signal Battalion in the 9th Army in Europe until the end of the war. He was discharged from the Army as a Staff Sergeant on October 22nd, 1945.
Upon returning home after the war, he was rehired by the telephone company and assigned to work in Minnesota as a construction lineman. In 1948 he was transferred to the Engineering Department in St Paul and Minneapolis Minnesota. In 1957 he was transferred as a Project Engineer to Sioux Falls and worked there until his retirement in 1982 as an Engineering Manager. During retirement he contracted telephone engineering projects in various parts of the country. He continued in this manner until early 2000 when his eyesight prevented him from continuing his work. On October 7, 2000 he married Alberta J Adamson. Chris and Alberta spent their years together traveling and enjoying living alternately in Sarasota, FL and Sioux Falls, SD.
Survivors Include: five children, son, John Hargens and wife Joan from Minneapolis, MN, daughter, Christine Andresen and husband Larry from Bellingham, WA, daughter, Mary Torretta and husband Douglas from Sarasota, FL, son, Jim Hargens and wife Colleen from Sioux Falls, SD, son, Steven Hargens from Minneapolis, MN; step-son, Dale Adamson and wife Beth from Sioux Falls, SD, step-daughters, Karen Jarvis and husband Bud from Louisville, KY, Tanya Adamson and husband Al Sioux Falls, SD, Roberta Bruget and husband Jim from Brandon, SD; 31 Grandchildren; and 39 great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his first wife Elizabeth (Betty) Hargens, his daughter Kathy Ballard and granddaughter Theresa Hargens.
Section Maple Leaf- Plot # 534
Contributed on 5/29/21 by 9katz
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