September 23, 1920 – August 22, 2020
Duayne Robley, formerly of Timber Lake passed away August 22, 2020 at the Central Nebraska Veterans Home in Kearney, NE one month shy of his 100th birthday.
Duayne Wesley Robley, 99, was born September 23, 1920 in Mount Vernon, SD to Lee and Elsie (Taplin) Robley. He grew up on a ranch south of Timber Lake.
He was a cowboy until the fall of 1939 when he went to Washington State and worked at various jobs until the fall of 1941. He started cooking in a small diner, then cooked at the Army Hospital in Vancouver until war broke out in 1941.
He joined the Navy on Dec. 21, 1941, and married Marie Tate on Dec. 23, 1941. Three children were born to this union. He cooked at the naval base in Astoria, OR, then transferred to the USS Charleston and was stationed in Alaska. He was honorably discharged from the Navy on Oct. 5, 1945.
He eventually moved to Deadwood and bought a small café in 1948, which he ran until 1968. He then went to work as a federal meat inspector in South Dakota, Minnesota and Idaho. He retired in September of 1974 after knee surgery left him unable to work.
After being divorced, he met Lucille Carlson and they were married Oct. 27, 1981.
He lived in Nebraska and enjoyed hunting, fishing and watching rodeos as he had participated in them in his younger days. They lived in Lucille’s home until he was unable to do so and he lived several years in the Sutton Community Home, then in the Grand Island Veterans Home until a new veterans home was built in Kearney.
Lucille passed away April 1, 2019.
It was Duayne’s wish to be buried in the National Cemetery in Sturgis with the Color Guard from the Deadwood VFW.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Lucille; his parents; a son, Robert; and his sisters, Lois Warnock and Hazel Egger.
He leaves to mourn his passing his daughter, Janice (Dick) Harrison of Rapid City; son, Ronald of Deadwood; stepchildren, Connie (Rollie) Johnson and JoAnn (Mark) Brown of Sutton, NE and Dennis (Charlotte) Carlson of Hastings, NE; and a host of grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, nieces and nephews.