Funeral services for Sam Hintz, age 94 of Lemmon, will be 2:00pm Wednesday, April 11, at the Prince of Peace Chapel of the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon. Pastor Jerry Erickson will officiate with burial in the Cedar Creek Prince of Peace Cemetery northeast of Lemmon.


Special music will be provided by Carolyn Erickson. Serving as casketbearers are Mitchell Eisenbarth, Ethan, Robert, Jesse, Danny, and Larry Hintz.


SAM HINTZ was born February 10, 1913 in Garden City, Canada to Fred and Karoline (Renke) Hintz. After Sam was born the family returned to North Dakota where they settled on a farm 12 miles south of New Leipzig in the Fleek Community. Sam attended a local country school and at an early age began helping his parents on the farm. During WWII, he went to the west coast where he worked in the shipyards. While there, he met Elva Cullison and they were united in marriage in February of 1944. In 1946, they moved to North Dakota and in January 1947 purchased the Loren Jennings place northeast of Lemmon in Adams County, ND. They continued to farm there for over 60 years. For the past year Sam has been in failing health. He passed away on April 6, at the West River Regional Medical Center in Hettinger.


Surviving family members include his wife Elva, 3 sons and daughters-in-law, Harold Hintz, Seattle, WA; Kenneth and Mary Hintz, Abbotsford, WI; Warren and Charlotte Hintz, Lemmon, SD; 2 daughters and son-in-law, Connie Quartier, Goldbar, WA; Bonita and Perry McKeon, Valdosta, GA; 10 grandchildren, 4 great grandchildren, 1 brother, Daniel Hintz, Butte, MT; 2 sisters, Ida Holton, Portland, OR; Erma Fogerty, Granada, MS.


He was preceded in death by his parents, 2 sons, Samuel and Randall, 5 brothers, Henry, Gottfried, Fred, Reinhold, Alex; 3 sisters, Edna Doolen, Selma Sweet, and Louise Eisenbarth.