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Obituary from Moscow-Pullman Daily News
Arthur August Tietz went peacefully to be with the Lord on Saturday, Nov.5, at North Central Care Center in Spokane, Wash.
Funeral Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at the Grace Lutheran Church in Potlatch, Idaho, with Paston Larry Vleth officiating. Burial will follow at the Freeze Cemetery north of Potlatch, with Potlatch Post No. 10300 participating.
He was born on Aug. 11, 1924, in Steele, N.D., to Mikel and Ottilie Zerbst Tietz. In 1926 the family moved to Glasgyn, Saskatchewan, Canada. He Talked often of hard work and 50 degrees below zero winters.
In 1942 he moved to the Mountain Home District north of Potlatch, working odd jobs until the entered the United States Army in 1943. After being wounded in the European theater he was honorably discharged in 1946.
He met Frieda Reich in Hamilton, Mont., and the couple were married on Jan. 5, 1949 in Missoula, Mont.
The couple made their home at Harvard, Idaho, where they have lived for the past 53 years. Mr. Tietz worked for a time for the U.S. Forest Service and Washington State University before being a self-employed backhoe operator until his retirement. In the mid-1970s, Mr. Tietz was involved with the Onaway water and sewer project.
He enjoyed rasing cattle, enjoyed tinkering and fixing things. he enjoyed the outdoors and drives into the mountains.
He was a member of the Potlatch Post No. 10300 Veterans of Foreign Wars at Potlatch, D.A.V. at Post Falls, Idaho, American Legion at Potlatch.
Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Frieda Tietz at the Harvard home; four daughters, Connie and her husband, David Root of Odessa, N.Y., Carol and her husband, Bert Smith of Princeton, Idaho, Katie and her husband, Jerry Sorensen of Helena, Mont., and Ruthie and her husband, John Carpenter of Harvard, Idaho; seven grandchildren, Joel, Jenelle, John, Shauna, Monica, Heidi and Cody; three great-grandchildren, Paul, Rose Marie, and Carly; and two sisters, Margaretta "Peggy" Emerson, of Spokane, Wash., and Esther Nowack of Potlatch. He was preceded in death by four brothers, Edward, William, Gustave and Adolf; and three sisters, Anna, Emma and Bertha.
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