Funeral casework for George Martin Stroup, 89, longtime Hazen banker, benefactor and acquaintance of the community, will be captivated at 2 p.m. MDT Friday at English Lutheran Abbey in Hazen. Mr. Stroup died Oct. 10 at his home.

Visitation will be from 3 -7 p.m. today at Seibel Funeral Home in Hazen and one hour afore the account at the church. Burial will be at the Hazen City Cemetery.

After a lifetime of association carelessness as admiral and administrator of the lath for Union State Coffer in Hazen, Mr. Stroup will be remembered by abounding whose causes and needs he agilely and abundantly assisted. Among causes he accurate were breadth libraries, scholarships for aerial academy graduates, the Hazen hospital and the hockey arena.

Mr. Stroup had a constant adulation of the outdoors and accurate a association tree-planting affairs by giving abroad copse every year through the bank. In the aftermost weeks of his life, George was accustomed by the accouchement in his adjacency for a baby esplanade he buried and watered beyond the artery from his home. The esplanade was affectionately dubbed “George’s Lot,” by the accouchement who amidst him back they and their parents put up a assurance in acceptance of his kindness.

He was built-in Aug. 22, 1911, the son of Robert M. and Margaret (Adams) Stroup, on the ancestors address abreast the avant-garde boondocks of Kasmer, arctic of abreast Zap. The ancestors lived in Stanton two years, while the ancient Stroup served in canton offices, and again in Zap, area he organized First State Bank.

George abounding brand academy and two years of aerial academy in Zap and accelerating from Bismarck Aerial School, while briefly alive with an aunt and uncle, Mary and Keller McCord. He abounding Concordia College at Moorhead, Minn., for two years.

He accomplished rural schools for two years afore abutting the Union State Coffer of Hazen, Stanton and Zap in 1934, area he remained alive up until the time of his death. He was in the U.S. Coast Guard for two and bisected years during World War II. He and Enid Haas were affiliated Dec. 28, 1941 at Hazen. His abiding bequest to his ancestors is a lifetime of giving to his community.

He served on the Hazen Academy Board, the Hazen Chamber of Commerce, the Hazen Memorial Hospital lath and architecture committee, the English Lutheran Abbey board, the Hazen City Commission, and the Hazen Esplanade Board. He was a affiliate of the American Legion, the Masonic Lodge and the Shriners.

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