A.L. Bus Korkow, age 83, of 742 Iowa Ave. SE, Huron, died Friday morning, February 9, 2007, at the Violet tschetter Memorial Home. His funeral mass will be at 11:00 AM Monday, February 12, at Holy Trinity Catholic Parish with Father Joe holzhauser officiating. Burial will be at Restlawn Memory Gardens Cemetery with Military Rites by the Huron Veterans Council. Friends may call this Sunday afternoon and evening at the Welter Funeral Home or prior to the mass at the church Monday morning. There will be a Scripture Service at 7:00 PM this Sunday evening at the funeral home with the family present until 8:30 PM. Arnold Lawrence Korkow was born on March 7, 1923, to Otto and Lucy (Cory) Korkow at Yale, SD. In 1929, he moved with his parents to a ranch near Canning, SD, where he grew up and received his education. He lived and worked on the ranch until his entry into the U.S. Navy on January 15, 1944. He served aboard ship in the Pacific Theater at Guadalcanal and Bougainville during World War II. He was honorably discharged on January 8, 1946. He returned to the Canning area and drove truck for a large business concern. On June 14, 1949, Bus married Ruth Ormond at St. Martins Catholic Church in Huron. The couple then lived in Pierre where he continued to work in the same business. In 1954, they moved to Huron and he founded and operated Fair City Transport Company moving transport-size loads of fuel to businesses throughout the region. He sold the business in 1975. Bus then became a realtor and joined his nephews at Korkow and Associates Realty in Huron, where he specialized in farm and ranch sales. He retired in 1988. Bus was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Parish, and a 50-year member of the Knights of Columbus He was a past member of the South Dakota Trucking Association, Farm and Land Institute of the National Association of Realtors, and the South Dakota Association of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. His interests included fishing, pheasant hunting, and visiting the family ranch near Canning. Bus is survived by his wife, Ruth of Huron; 1 daughter, Nancy (Dennis) Wiedmeier of Redfield; 3 sisters, Esther Wilson of Bountiful, UT, Ruth Taylor of Bountiful, UT, and Leona (Carrol) Payne of La Jolla, CA; 1 brother-in-law, Joe Croco of Cheyenne, WY; 2 sisters-in-law, Renetta Korkow of Brookings, and MaryLou Korkow of Hanna, WY; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; 7 brothers, Louis, Clarence, Robert, Erv, Donald, Edward, and Herman; 2 sisters, Adeline Zerbo, and Agnes Croco; 3 brothers-in-law, Fred Wilson, Leonard Taylor, and Joe Zerbo; and 1 sister-in-law, Lafola Korkow.