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The Bismarck Tribune | Posted: Monday, September 9, 2002 12:00 am | (0) Comments
MOTT -- Carol Ormiston Hertz, 65, Mott, died Sept. 9, 2002, at her home. Services will be held at 2 p.m. MDT Saturday at Mott United Church of Christ with the Rev. Michael Nahas officiating. Burial will be in Neuburg Cemetery.
Pallbearers are Carol's nephews, Scott Kjelvik, Joseph and Alexander Ormiston, Karsten, Jason and Aaron Ormiston, John Hertz, John Thompson and Michael and Landusky Hertz. Honorary pallbearers are her friends, Shirley Roth, Carole Watrel, Bonnie Bieber, Ramona Swindler, Laurie Larson, Meridean Sprecher, Pat Olien, Bev Austin, Helen Hagberg, Florence Staudinger and Mary Jo Rebel.
A family service will be held at 7 p.m. MDT Friday at Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home, Mott. Visitation will be held from 1 to 7 p.m. MDT Friday and 9 a.m. to noon MDT Saturday at Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home, and for one hour prior to services at United Methodist Church in Mott.
Carol Ormiston was born Jan. 28, 1937, in LaMoure, the daughter of Josephine Kinter Ormiston and Charles H. Ormiston. She grew up in Edgeley, and graduated from Edgeley High School and Jamestown College. In 1978 she earned a bachelor of arts degree from Dickinson State College.
Carol taught grade school in Edgeley, Bismarck, Havre, Mont., and Mott. In 1957 she married Milton Hertz of Mott. In 1959 the couple returned to Mott to begin farming.
Carol was active in many community activities. She served for several years as chairman of the District 35 Republican Party. She was state president of the Mrs. Jaycees in 1967 and received the Jaycette Key Women Award in 1977. Carol was a past worthy matron of the Order of Eastern Star, and she touched the lives and hearts of many young women as the mother advisor of the Order of Rainbow for Girls.
From the time she was a child, Carol was active in her church, serving as a Sunday school teacher and choir director. She started playing the pipe organ for services in the Methodist church in Edgeley while still in high school, and served as the organist for the Mott United Church of Christ for more than 40 years.
In 1969 Carol and her husband were honored to receive the National Outstanding Young Farmer Award. Carol and Milt were active in many farm groups, most notably OYF.
In 1983 Carol and Milt moved to Vienna, Va. In the eight years she lived there, she was an active member of the White House Volunteers. In addition, she spent four years as an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency.
At the time of her death, Carol was the state president of AARP of North Dakota, a position she had held since 1999. She also was the chairperson of the Graying of North Dakota Coalition, and a six-year member and current chairperson of the Governor's Committee on Aging. Carol was a past member of the AARP Leadership Council and held the posts of health and longterm care spokesperson and women's issues volunteer. While working as the women's issues voluteer, she collaborated with Marilyn Hudson to create Women of Two Cultures, a presentation that chronicled the lives of her Scandinavian ancestors and Marilyn's Native American ancestors. The presentation received a Telly Award in 1997.
Carol's passions were music and reading. She patiently taught her children how to read, and loved to listen to her grandchildren read to her and play piano for her. Carol was also an avid gardener, and her spectacular gardens are proof.
Survivors include her husband, Milton Hertz; and three children, Sidney and Michael Fiergola, Minneapolis, and Shane and Stacey Hertz and Heather Hertz and Stan Blickensderfer, all of Mott. Her grandchildren were the light of her life, and include Charles and Olivia Fiergola, MacKenzie, Sean and Morgan Hertz and Noah and Cade Blickensderfer. She is also survived by her siblings, Kay and Dr. Hugh Fahy, Albuquerque, N.M., H.R. "Bud" and Donna Ormiston, Elbow Lake, Minn., Dr. Charles and Ruth Ormiston, St. Paul, Minn., and the Rev. Lee and Pam Ormiston, Minneapolis; and her nephews and nieces, Elizabeth Firman, Mikki Kjelvik, Anne Ormiston, Hannah Scott, Gloria and Sarah Ormiston, Kathy Hertz, Elizabeth and Margaret Thompson and Victoria Hertz.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Jo Ormiston; her aunt, Mary Kinter; and her nieces, Kristi and Natalie Hertz.
A memorial has been established to the Hertz Scholarship Fund at Dickinson State University.
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1937 - 2002 (65 years)
, d. 4 May 2010, Minnesota, USA