Funeral services for Sandy Evers, 77, of Reliance, will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at the United Methodist Church in Reliance, SD with burial to follow at the Reliance Cemetery in Reliance, SD.

Visitation will be 6:00-7:00 p.m. Monday, April 19, 2021 at the Hickey Funeral Chapel in Chamberlain, SD.

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Sandra (Sandy) Lee Evers passed away at her home in Reliance on Tuesday, April 13th, 2021.  Sandy was born to Harry and Mary (Brammer) Eymer on March 27th, 1944 and grew up on the family farm west of Reliance with her parents and brothers (Bruce and Chris).  Life on the farm was often arduous, and Sandy beat the odds as a polio survivor, having contracted the disease at age 7.  Despite these difficulties, the family farm was the place she loved the most.

Sandy attended school at the one room schoolhouse in Lyman and eventually graduated high school from Kennebec High School in 1962.   After graduation she attended SDSU. At SDSU she met Roger Evers, they dated and were married on July 5th, 1964.  After Roger's graduation from college, the couple moved to Freeport, Illinois and daughter Lisa was born in 1967.  From Freeport they traveled to Columbus, Nebraska, and on to Kimball, Nebraska, before settling in Gretna, Nebraska, in 1970.  To the union a second child, Clinton, was born in 1973. Sandy moved home to the farm in Reliance in 1989 to care for her father, and it is here she remained for the rest of her life.

Sandy was a tireless worker, not only professionally, but also devoting countless hours of her free time and energy to assist family and friends with any project, large or small. Throughout her life Sandy held many jobs and was skilled at flower arrangement as well as many other things.   She loved quilting, crochet, gardening, and animals. One of her proudest accomplishments was restoring an antique doctor's buggy for the South Dakota Centennial parades in 1989.  Everyone agreed it was fabulous. In fact, it seemed that anything she set her mind to she could do.

After moving home, she worked for many years in the office of Dr. Larry Menning in Chamberlain SD, and crossed paths with many people in the community, always trying to be good to them and attend to their needs at the office.  After retirement, she developed a keen interest in genealogy and would spend many hours in front of her computer using software and the internet to help her track down distant branches of the family tree. Sandy was a devoted daughter, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend.  Often putting the wellbeing of others above her own wellbeing, she found joy in her family and always strived to be like her parents whom she adored.

Sandy is survived and will be deeply missed by daughter Lisa Hoffer (Deo) and their son Jacob and daughter Rachel all from Reliance, SD, as well as her son Clinton (Danelle) and their sons Quentin and Zakkary and daughter Aubryelle all from Sioux Falls, SD.  Additionally, she is survived by her brothers Bruce and Chris and their families all from Reliance, SD.

Sandy is preceded in death by her parents Harry and Mary Eymer, as well as grandparents Arthur and Purllue Eymer and Chris and Hilda Brammer.