Services for Herman Knock will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, at First Reformed Church in Sioux Falls, S.D., with burial at Delaware Reformed Cemetery, Lennox, S.D. Visitation begins at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at George Boom Funeral Home in Sioux Falls with the family present from 7 to 8 p.m.
Herman E. Knock, 91, Hills, formerly of Sioux Falls, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at Tuff Memorial Home in Hills.
Herman Knock was born to Harm and Fenna (Niggendyker) Knock on March 16, 1910, in Dempster, S.D. He grew up on the family farm.
He married Gertie Hyronimus on March 3, 1937, in Worthing, S.D. The couple built a country store and gas station six miles south of Lennox, S.D., which they owned and operated until 1946. They moved to Sioux Falls where he worked in the shipping department at Manchester Biscuit Company until it closed in 1958.
He then worked for R-B Tank Company in Sioux Falls making redwood stock tanks. He retired from R-B Tank in 1972 but still sold tanks part-time from his home until moving to Tuff Memorial Home in Hills in the early 1990s. He was elected King of Tuff Memorial Home this past spring.
Mr. Knock was a member of First Reformed Church in Sioux Falls.
Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Elnora "Ellie" and Sheldon Sandager, Hills; five grandchildren, Elizabeth Sandager and her husband, Tadashi Ide, Japan, Robert Sandager and his wife, Dawn, Eugene Sandager and his wife, Shirley, Michael Sandager and his wife, Nancy, all of Hills, Jo Wulf and her husband, Floyd, Luverne; 13 great-grandchildren; one sister, Clara Westerman and her husband, Jabbo, Chokio; and two sisters-in-law, Joyce Knock, Clear Lake, S.D., and Louise Knock, Marietta.
Mr. Knock was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Gertie, on April 19, 1985, three brothers, Abraham, Nicholas, and Freddie, and three sisters, Lizzie Marsh, Maggie Iwerks and Anna Lumberg.
George Boom Funeral Home, Sioux Falls, is in charge of arrangements.