Martha Elizabeth Rixen, age 86, of Mott, ND passed into our Lord's waiting arms on July 15, 2019 at the Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home in Mott.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, July 19, 2019 at 10:30 am at St. Vincent's Catholic Church in Mott with Fr. Augustine Nnadi officiating.  Burial will follow at Sunnyslope Cemetery in Mott.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church on Friday morning.

Martha was born on the farm in Dunn County, ND on May 23, 1933 to Mike and Veronica (Lantz) Hecker and was raised on their family farm north of Dickinson, ND.  She attended country school and graduated from Model High School in Dickinson.  The following summers she worked at a shoe store and during the year taught in country schools before moving to Mott to help take care of her ailing grandmother.  She began working at the Playhouse Theater where she met Richard Rixen and they were married in 1954.

Martha soon got a job at the Hettinger County ASCS office, later called the Farm Service Agency, and spent her career there, eventually becoming its director in which capacity she worked for many years before retiring in 1995.  She entered the Good Samaritan Home in Mott in 2013.

She served on the Board of Directors at the Commercial Bank of Mott, Good Samaritan Home, Cemetery Board and was very active at St. Vincent's and the Altar Society.  Martha was an excellent seamstress and quilter and loved gardening, flowers, crosswords, and kitties.

Martha is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Jerry and Jayne, grandchildren Tanna and Tom (Julie), brothers Edwin (Eva) and Ben, sisters Sister Laura Hecker, Leona (Ken) Barnhart, and Rose Hecker, and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and oldest sister Delores.

In lieu of flowers memorials are preferred to the Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home in Mott, ND.