Marcene (Strivens) Rigsby, 64, of Walterboro, SC, passed away Thursday, September 7, 2017 at Colleton Medical Center in Walterboro.  Her memorial service will be 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Thelen-Hyke Funeral Home in Redfield, SD.  Reverend Marty Toepke-Floyd will officiate.  Marcene will be laid to rest at Greenlawn Cemetery in Redfield.

Marcene (Strivens) Rigsby was born September 17, 1952 to Don and Lillian Strivens in Plainview, Nebraska. She attended school in Omaha, NE and Faulkton, SD and graduated from Redfield High School in 1970.  She graduated from St. Luke's School of X-ray Technology in Aberdeen in 1972 and worked at St. Luke's Hospital in their X-ray department.

She married Perry Haaland in 1972.  They lived in New Orleans from 1973 to 1977 where she worked at the Oschner Clinic and St. Charles Hospital.  In 1978, she moved to Miami, Florida where she worked as an X-ray and CAT scan technologist at Doctor's Hospital.  She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Miami in 1983.

She married the love of her life, J. Craig Rigsby, on July 10, 1982.  They moved to Walterboro, SC in 1990 and built their home where Marcene resided until her passing.

She was preceded in death by her husband Craig in 1994, her mother Lillian in 2006 and her brother-in-law Larry in 2010.

She is survived by her father, Don Strivens, one brother, Darrell (Kristi) Strivens, sisters Louise (Tom) Auchampach, Lois Bealmear, Doris (Dave) Grunewaldt, Marcia (Kim) Benning and Gloria (Greg) Brosius,15 nieces and nephews and 25 great nieces and nephews.

Marcene's relationship with God was through his creation of beauty and nature.  She loved her family and closest friends Bobbi and Jimmy, and most of all, her nieces and nephews, whom she considered her own children.