Bernice L. Ehrichs, 93, died Friday, January 28, 2005, at the Riverview Manor Nursing Home in Flandreau, South Dakota.

Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Flandreau with the Rev. Mary A. Sacco officiating. Burial is at Hillside Cemetery in Egan. Visitation begins at 2 p.m. today with a 7 p.m. prayer service at the Skroch Funeral Chapel in Flandreau. She was born September 4, 1911, in Watertown to Otto C. and Ella Mary (Foss) Bailey. She attended public schools and graduated from Watertown High School in 1929. After high school she worked at the Sioux Falls Clinic for two years. She married Richard W. Jackson of Egan in 1933 and the couple farmed locally until moving to Pipestone, Minnesota, in 1940. They returned to the Egan area in 1943, where they purchased land and fed livestock. Mr. Jackson also traveled extensively as a cattle buyer. After Mr. Jackson's accidental death in 1948, Mrs. Ehrichs and her four children remained on the family's farm just north of Egan. In 1952 she married Raymond Ehrichs of Flandreau. For the next 24 years, they raised grain and hay crops and fed cattle on two farms near Egan. After Mr. Ehrichs retired in 1976 the couple remained on their home farm east of Egan. Mr. Ehrichs died in 1992. She moved into Flandreau in 1993 and lived independently until entering the Riverview Manor Nursing Home in September 2001. Her life centered around family, church and school. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and was a longtime member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Flandreau, the church's WELCA and the Egan Cemetery Association. She served on the Egan Board of Education for 10 years and was active in the local PTA and 4-H club programs. She also enjoyed traveling gardening, baking, cooking, dancing and family activities.

She is survived by three sons, Tom (Mary) Ehrichs of Egan, Warren (Marilyn) Jackson of Egan and Gordon (Anne) Jackson of Madison, Wisconsin; a Jackson daughter, Joanne (Edmund) Burke of Shelbyville, Kentucky; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husbands; a Jackson daughter, Leslie Bisson; an infant son, Gary Jackson; her brother, Orval "Pat" Bailey, and her sister, Esther Bailey.