Local family businesses span a century
Winter Service sits at its current location on Dakota Avenue shortly after the business relocated there in 1970. Pictured are Dayle Winter and his father, George Winter Jr., representing the third and second generations of the Winter family to carry on the long-standing Wessington Springs business. (PHOTO COURTESY WINTER FAMILY)
Dayle Winter and his wife, Rosemary, are pictured at Sweet Grass Eatery in Wessington Springs. Dayle represents the third generation of the Winter family to operate the long-standing business.
Winter Service’s second location is shown on the lot that now houses the Humm-Dinger convenience store. George Winter Jr. and Dayle Winter operated the shop at this site before moving across the street to its current Dakota Avenue location in 1970. (PHOTO COURTESY WINTER FAMILY).
Dayle Winter (left) visits with longtime friend and fellow repairman Lloyd Kraft inside Winter Service. Winter and Kraft were classmates in the Wessington Springs Class of 1953 and both spent decades operating repair shops in the community. (PHOTO BY CRAIG WENZEL)
George Winter Jr. is pictured at the original Winter Service location on Main Street, where the business opened in 1946. The site now houses True Value Hardware. (PHOTO COURTESY WINTER FAMILY)
A young soldier forged his skills as a blacksmith in the German army during the early twentieth century. Soon after his military career ended, George Winter, Sr., left his homeland to pursue a better life for himself and his descendants and sailed to America.“After landing in the United States, my grandfather headed west with hopes of finding a place where he could blacksmith and shoe ...
