The amendment corrected formatting errors in the introduced version, fixing a hyphenation error ("seventy-5 five" to "seventy-five") and a line break error ("great-7 grandchild" to "great-grandchild"), while removing the bill's technical markup and line numbers to produce a clean enrolled version. These are purely technical corrections that do not change the substance or purpose of the commemoration.
26.1025.15 101st Legislative Session HC8015 2026 South Dakota Legislature House Commemoration 8015 Introduced by: Representative Czmowski Underscores indicate new language. Overstrikes indicate deleted language. A LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATION honoring Alice Simonson of Day County, who is 1 believed to be the oldest citizen of this state. 2 WHEREAS, Alice Simonson was born Alice Bakken in McGregor, North Dakota, on January 3 4, 1918, and moved with her family to Day County, South Dakota, two years later; and 4 WHEREAS, she married Oscar Simonson on June 11, 1938, and had been married seventy-5 five seventy-five years when he passed away; and 6 WHEREAS, she has a son and a daughter, as well as two grandchildren and one great-7 grandchild; great-grandchild; and 8 WHEREAS, she kept detailed farm records tracking income and expenses for the entire 9 time she and her husband farmed, and those records are now housed in a library collection 10 at South Dakota State University and have been digitized for access; and 11 WHEREAS, she has been celebrated for the quality of her sewing, her hand-stitched quilts, 12 her gardening, her canning, and her vivid memories of the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s and 13 the coming of rural electrification; 14 WHEREAS, she has been a lifetime member of Bergen Lutheran Church in northern Day 15 County and later became a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Webster; and 16 WHEREAS, she served on the original board that built Sun Dial Manor in Bristol; 17 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED, by the One Hundred First Legislature of the 18 State of South Dakota, that Alice Simonson is believed to be the oldest living South Dakotan, 19 having spent one hundred six of her one hundred eight years in Day County, where she 20 continues to reside after more than a century of contributing to her community and serving 21 as a witness to the history of this state. 22