The Funeral Service for Elinor Hoks, age 89 of Elgin, will be held at 10:30 am, Thursday, January 12, 2017 at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Elgin. Pastor Brian Knutson will officiate with burial in Zion Lutheran Cemetery.

Visitation will be on Wednesday from 1:00 to the time of the family service at 5:00pm at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Elgin.

Serving as casketbearers are her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Elinor Martell was born on October 26, 1927 in Elgin, ND, the youngest of 12 children born to Jacob and Christina (Guthmiller) Martell. They lived 2-1/2 miles south of Elgin, until Jacob died and Christina married Fred Schaible, and they moved 1 mile north of Elgin. In 1941 her parents retired and moved into Elgin. She graduated from Elgin High School.

She was united in marriage to Art Alt on May 28, 1944 in Elgin. Elinor worked as a nurse's aide at the Elgin hospital and as a teller at Farmers State Bank. Art and Elinor together operated the hardware store until selling to their granddaughter and her husband in June of 1990.

Art passed away on April 28, 1992. Elinor continued to live in Elgin. On November 25, 1994, she was united in marriage to Emmett Hoks in Appleton, WI. They spent summers in Elgin and the winter months in Wisconsin and Arizona. Following Emmett's death on October 30, 2013, she returned to Elgin and entered Dakota Hills.
Elinor passed away on Monday, January 9, 2017 at the Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin.

She was a charter member of the Elgin Lioness Club, and active in her community and church. She was a excellent seamstress and could sew anything. She had a very creative mind and loved gardening, playing cards and spending time at the cabin.

Surviving family members include her 2 daughters and sons-in-law, JoAnn and Henry Eslinger, Maricopa, AZ; Sandra Schmitz and Marvin Kubousek, Sturgis, SD; 7 grandchildren, Paul (Darcy) Eslinger, Jill King, Kim (Dale) Bren, Patrick Schmitz, Heather (deceased) )Joel Denboer, Casey Alt, Aaron Alt, 7 great grandchildren, Ella and Jonathan Eslinger, Christopher and Nathan Bren, Mason Schmitz, Josh and Madelyn Denboer.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands Art (1992) and Emmett (2013), son Arthur (2014), granddaughter, Heather Denboer (2015), 2 brothers, and 9 sisters.