Lynnette Marie (Haug) Hintze, 68

Lynnette Marie (Haug) Hintze passed away on March 17, 2025, at the age of 68 in Houston where she was recovering from a bone marrow transplant after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.

Lynnette was born in Moorhead, Minnesota, to Joyce and Gustav Haug. She was the second oldest of four children and grew up on a dairy farm in Hawley, Minnesota.

On July 15, 1977, Lynnette married Josef Potisk, who tragically passed away two years later.

After graduating from Minnesota State University-Moorhead in 1979, her journalism career started at the Becker County Record-Tribune in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. She went on to work at the Oil Patch Hotline in Williston, North Dakota, in 1981 before becoming an editor at the Richmond County Leader in Sidney, Montana, in 1983.

That’s where she met her husband, Timothy Hintze. They were married on June 12, 1982, and had two daughters they raised in Sidney before moving to Whitefish in 1991.

Her newspaper career in the Flathead Valley began at the Hungry Horse News before moving to the Daily Inter Lake in 1995 where she became the features editor and had a biweekly column, “As I See It,” where she wrote about her Midwestern upbringing, raising her children, making sauerkraut, canning vegetables and her love for the Norwegian staples: lutefisk and lefse.

Dedicated to her faith, Lynnette was an active church member for decades, most recently at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Columbia Falls, where she was a handbell ringer, choir member, women’s group secretary and part of the quilting group. She also volunteered for Meals on Wheels and Soroptimist International of Whitefish.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Gustav and Joyce Haug and her first husband, Josef Potisk. She is survived by her husband of 42 years, Timothy Hintze; her brothers, Arlen Haug, Rodney (Sharon) Haug and their three sons, Daniel, Christopher and Evan Haug and her youngest brother Wayne (Becky) Haug; her children, Heather (Will) Hintze, Deanna (Rob) Mackin and her grandchildren, Marlena and Tristan.

The service for Lynnette will take place at 11 a.m. on Monday, March 24 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Columbia Falls.