Cynthia Stoltz, 93, of Mitchell, formerly of Alexandria, died on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011, at Avera Brady Home in Mitchell. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, January 21, at St. Mary of Mercy Catholic Church in Alexandria with burial at St. Mary of Mercy Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the church one hour prior to the funeral service at 10:00 AM. Arrangements are under the direction of the Will Funeral Chapel.
Cynthia Josephine Jarding was born on March 15, 1917, at Emery, SD to Carl and Anna (Arend) Jarding, and attended St. Martins School in Emery. On Sept, 20, 1938, she married Frowin Joseph Stoltz at Emery. Cynthia was a homemaker and kept a warm and loving home for their daughter and five sons as Frowin worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps at Nemo, SD, and then managed grain elevators at Plankinton and Kaylor before the family moved to Alexandria in 1945. Her husband preceded her in death on Dec. 29, 1991. Cynthia moved to the Avera Brady Home in Mitchell in 2007.
She is survived by four sons: Donald and wife, Jane, of Sioux Falls; James and wife, Madeline, of LeSueur, MN; Terry and wife, Cathy, of Alexandria; and David and wife, Barbara, of Hartford; a daughter, Patricia Tyx and husband, Frank, of Buffalo, NY; 17 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; two sisters, Helen Marie Sieverding and Eleanor Kueter of Sioux Falls; two brothers, Louis of Sioux Falls and James of Humboldt; sisters-in-law Viola Mohr of Mitchell, Sr. Dominic Stoltz of Aberdeen, and Phyllis Jarding of Sioux Falls; and a brother-in-law, Marvin Bawdon of Sturgis.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Frowin; her son, Roger; brothers Joseph, Tony and George; and sisters Mary Elizabeth Mallinger, Lillian Hentges , Janet Kivimaki, and Dorothy and Phyllis (in infancy).