Funeral services for Marvin R. Hauck, age 69 of Elgin, will be held at 10:30am Tuesday, March 13, at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Elgin with Pastor Jerry Lee officiating.

Burial will be in Peace Lutheran Cemetery at Heil with full military honors afforded by the George W. Snook American Legion Post #246 of Elgin.


A family service will be held at 7:00pm on Monday evening at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Elgin.


Special music will be provided by Annette Roth and Marcy Haase.


Serving as casket bearers are Calvin Diehl, Paul Sayler, Tim Boehm, Butch Hohbein, Rick Hohbein, and Kerry Fitterer. All of his co-workers at BNSF Railroad are considered honorary bearers.


A memorial has been established.


MARVIN R. HAUCK was born August 26, 1937 at Elgin, ND to Odell and Martha (Miller) Hauck. He attended grade school at Heil and graduated from Elgin Public High School in 1956. He enlisted into the US Navy on January 29, 1957. He attended photography school while in the Navy and was discharged on January 28, 1963. He returned to the Heil area where he began working on road construction projects.


Marvin was united in marriage to Leona Bentz on June 28, 1963 at Elgin. They had two children, Roxanne and Gerard. He continued to work on construction and then moved his family to Minneapolis, MN where he was in photography as a film processor. He also attended Dunwoody Industrial Institute in Minneapolis which pertained to his job. Marvin then moved back to Elgin where he managed "Marv's Standard" service station. Five years later he began working on the BNSF Railroad in southern North Dakota. He worked on the railroad for 23 years until retiring in 1998.


He enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, playing with his pet cat, "Patches,"fishing with his grandsons and fishing buddies especially Al, watching and tending to birds especially Blue Jay's, card playing, reading history books and watching the history channel, and enjoyed kidding around with people.


He was a member of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and George W. Snook American Legion Post #246.


Marvin passed from this life on Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at the Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin.


Grateful for having shared his life are his wife, Leona, Elgin, ND; 1 daughter and son-in-law, Roxanne and Todd Cook, Billings, MT; 1 son, Gerard Hauck, McAlester, OK; 5 grandchildren, Brandon Rivinius and his wife Jessica, Billings, MT; Kayla, Brittany, Michael, and Brian Hauck, McAlester, OK; 1 brother and sister-in-law, Delmar and Peggy Hauck and family, Rapid City, SD; his mother-in-law, Lenora Bentz, Elgin, ND; 4 brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Edgar and June Bentz, Highmore, SD; Ervin and Eleanor Bentz, Bismarck, ND; Milbert and Claudia Bentz, Mott, ND; Marvin and Audrey Bentz, Minneapolis, MN; 5 sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Gertie Ottmar, Elgin, ND; Ardella and Vernon Veitz, New Leipzig, ND; Erma and Arlan Bachmann, Bismarck, ND; Dorothy and Emanuel Will, Elgin, ND; Elaine Roth and friend Mike Haslid, Elgin, ND; numerous nieces, nephews, and a host of friends.


He was preceded in death by his parents, 1 sister Luella Goich, and 1 brother Duwayne Hauck, 2 brothers-in-law, Reiny Bentz and Ervin Ottmar.