Title: Deborah Hall Hertz
Dates: ca. 1875-1984
Collection Number: MSS 10522
Quantity: .25 feet
Abstract: Papers include scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia associated with Deborah Hall Hertz, her husband, Rev. Rudolph Hertz, and her father Rev. Charles L. Hall, early missionary on the Fort Berthold Reservation at Elbowoods (D.T.).
Provenance: The State Historical Society acquired this collection from Helen Boulton in December 1988. Photographs were separated to photo collection 00734.
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Related Collections:
00734 Deborah Hall Hertz
MSS 10005 Charles Lemmon Hall
MSS 10286 Harold Case
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
From the McLean County Independent, Thursday May 12, 1988
The funeral for Deborah “Dora” Hertz, 98, of Garrison, will be held at the First United Church of Christ in Garrison. She died Sunday May 8, 1988 at the Garrison Nursing Home.
Rev. Steve Holmes and Rev. Charles Maxfield will officiate and burial will be at2 p.m. in Memorial Congregational Cemetery of rural Raub. Pallbearers will be grandsons and great-grandsons, James and Davis Fischer, Bruce Boehrs, and Michael, Don, and Marei Fischer. Thompson Funeral Home of Garrison is in charge of arrangements.
Deborah Hall was born Feb. 4, 1890 to Rev. Charles and Susan Hall at Elbowoods, where she attended elementary school. Her father was the Congregational minister among the Dakota Indians. She moved to Minneapolis to live with an aunt and graduated from high school there. She was a graduate of Congregational Church College, Fargo, and became YWCA field secretary for Indian schools in a four-state area.
She married the Rev. Rudolph Hertz in 1926 at Eagle Butte, S.D. They moved to Santee, Neb., where he was superintendent of the Santee Indian School.
He died in 1953. She worked for Congregational Church Council of Churches in North Dakota.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Andrew (Elizabeth) Fischer of Spearfish, S.D., and Mrs. Ralph (Helen) Boulton of Denver; six grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
BOX / FOLDER INVENTORY
Box 1:
1 Rudolph Hertz scrapbook of clippings from The Congregationalist and Pilgrim Herald regarding the Hall and Hertz families work at Indian Missions in North and South Dakota and Nebraska, 1927-1931
2 Deborah Hall Hertz scrapbook including handwritten and published writings, poems, prayers and cards by Rev. Charles Lemmon Hall 1875-1934
3 Obituary scrapbook, 1960-1982
4 Yankton College material 1954-1964
5 News clippings, 1948-1975, Certificate of Appreciation 1972
6 School memorabilia: Fargo College, Yankton College, Central High School, Minneapolis, Minn. 1910-1953
7 Clippings re: Fort Berthold Mission, Oahe Chapel, Rev. Thomas L. Riggs, 1915-1984
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