08/10/2020 - Myrtle Maxine Trent

Funeral services for 88-year old Myrtle Maxine Trent of Hot Springs, SD,
will be Monday, August 10, 2020, at 10:00 AM at Prairie View United Methodist Church in Smithwick, SD.

Committal services will follow at Hillside Cemetery near Oelrichs, SD.

Visitation will be held Sunday, August 9, 2020, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at Chamberlain McColley's Funeral Home in Hot Springs.

Online condolences may be left at chamberlainmcolleys.com

Myrtle Trent was born August 25, 1931, in Asp, NE, the first of six children born to Elisha (Pete) LeLaCheur and Fern (Evans) LeLaCheur, and passed away August 6, 2020, in Hot Springs.

As a small child, her parents moved to South Dakota where she attended school at the McClelland School in Custer County until her parents moved to Hot Springs in December 1942. Through the years she also attended school briefly in Riverton, Wyo, and Newell, SD, before graduating from Hot Springs High School in 1949.

Myrtle married Dewey Trent on March 25, 1950 in the Methodist parsonage in Rapid City, SD. They lived in Oelrichs until March 1955 when they moved to the ranch northwest of Oelrichs where Dewey farmed and ranched and worked for Lorenz Brothers in dirt moving construction. In March, 1962 they moved back to Oelrichs when Dewey became the Standard Oil agent for the area. Dewey purchased the oil business from Standard in 1976. They were blessed with three sons, Melvin, and twins, Ronald and Donald.

Myrtle was a devoted wife and mother, supporting her sons in all school activities and later her grandchildren. When Dewey entered hospice in Rapid City in January 2012, she spent only the first night at home then "moved" into his hospice room until his passing in December 2012.

In the fall of 2013, Myrtle broke her hip, and moved from her home in Oelrichs to Pine Hills Assisted Living in Hot Springs, SD. After her third bout with cancer in November 2018, she moved in to the Seven Sisters Living Center in Hot Springs, where she resided until her death.

Myrtle was a member of the Oelrichs United Methodist Church (later Prairie View United Methodist Church) and was active in the United Methodist Women. She served for many years as secretary-treasurer for the Pioneer Cooperative Grazing District, treasurer for the City of Oelrichs, as well as bookkeeper for Trent Oil Company until the business closed in 2011.

Myrtle's hobbies included ceramics and crocheting. Family and friends were often gift recipients of her creative work. With her first diagnoses of cancer in 1996, she started collecting angel figurines and enjoyed telling who had given her which angel. She also had numerous photo albums of family members, which she would proudly show off to visitors.

Myrtle was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Dewey, sisters, Joyce Lorenz and Betty Stevens; brothers Roscoe LeLaCheur and Frank LeLaCheur; grandson Brandon Trent; and an infant great grandson.

Myrtle is survived by her sons, Melvin (Mary) Trent of Rapid City, SD; Ron (Cindy) Trent of Oelrichs, SD; Don Trent of Houston, MO; brother Donnie LeLaCheur of Coffeyville, KS; grandsons, Justin Trent, Kenneth Trent, Kevin Trent, Casey Trent, Devon Trent; granddaughter Angela Trent; seven greatgrandchildren, numerous relatives and a host of friends


Arrangements have been placed in the care of Chamberlain McColley's Funeral Home in Hot Springs, SD.