Nancy Elizabeth Monk, age 96, of Elkton, died Monday, February 14, 2005, at the Flandreau Medical Center in Flandreau, South Dakota. Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M. Thursday, February 17, 2005, at the United Parish of Elkton, with interment in the Elkton City Cemetery. Visitations will be from 5-8 P.M. Wednesday at the Eidsness-Zink Funeral Chapel in Elkton. Nancy Elizabeth (Hammer) Monk was born June 6, 1908, in Brookings County to Fred and Emma (Brommerich) Hammer. She attended school in the Elkton school system. On January 19, 1927, she was united in marriage to Walter Monk. Four sons and three daughters were born to this union. They lived most of their lives on a farm in Pipestone County where she enjoyed gardening, yard work, fishing, and raising her family. In 1958, they retired into Elkton, where she was an active member of the Peace United Church of Christ and ladies aid. She also loved to play bridge in her bridge club. Her husband, Walter, died in 1982. In her later years, she moved out of her large home in Elkton into an apartment, and still later to Ridgeview Estates in Pipestone. The last couple of months, she was a resident of Riverview Manor in Flandreau. Grateful for having shared her life are two sons: Walter and his wife Edythe, and James and his wife Peggy, both of Pipestone, Minnesota; two daughters: Lorna Burke of Willow Lake, South Dakota, and Jean Knutson and her husband Jacob of Mission Hill, South Dakota; 16 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; and 29 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband; two sons, Paul and Fred; a daughter, Bonnie Erks; a son-in-law, Daryl Burke; and a grandson, Daryl Duane Burke, Jr.