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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271413
Title: Phyllis I. Hitz
Date: 3/9/1937-1/26/2025
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Inscription/Marks: 3/9/1937
Summary: Phyllis Ida Hitz, 87, of New Rockford, ND, passed away January 26, 2025, at the Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd, New Rockford. Mass of Christian burial was held at St. John’s Catholic Church, New Rockford. Burial was in St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery, Bremen, ND. Phyllis was born to Herbert and Alma (nee Kanwischer) Zander in New Rockford, ND, on March 9, 1937. She attended high school in New Rockford. On October 8, 1956, she married Louis Hitz. In the years that followed, she and Louie settled into their farming life on their homestead outside of New Rockford. Phyllis was a loving and adoring mother to six children, grandmother to eleven grandchildren, and great-grandmother to two great-grandchildren. Phyllis spent many wonderful hours cooking, gardening, traveling, and helping Louie on the farm. After Louie’s retirement from farming, they spent their winters in Bullhead City, AZ, where they enjoyed spending time with a group of other retirees they met there. Phyllis is survived by sons, Jeffrey Hitz, of New Rockford, ND, and Bruce (Nancy) Hitz, of Panama City Beach, FL; daughters, Karen (Rodney) Thompson, of West Fargo, ND, and Kristi (Paul) Jurek, of Red Oak, TX; grandchildren, Carrie, Nick, Tabitha, Tiffany, Thomas, Nathan, Benjamin, Charlotte, Sean, and Samuel; great-grandchildren, Corbin and Remick; brother, Merle Zander; and sisters-in-law, Lois Zander and Julie Zander. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; sons, Mark and Shawn Hitz; grandson, David Hitz; brothers, Kenneth, Howard, and Terry Zander; sister, Lois Jean Amundson; brother-in-law, James Amundson; sister-in-law, Eileen Zander; and daughter-in-law, Marjorie Hitz.
Red ID: FND_I_78903 Image ID: 520426 Image Notes: FND001 271413

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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