George H. Hinds

Ipswich, Lead, SD

1934, 1789, Pactola, F-4,
1935, 792, Roubaix, F-6,

"I was enrolled in Company 1789 at Camp F-4, (Pactola) on April 1, 1934 and was discharged from Company 792 at Camp F-6 (Roubaix) March 31, 1936. So many men left the CCC the summer of 1935 that Company 1789 was disbanded, and the men transferred about October 1 to Company 792.

"At the time of the transfer I was on duty in a fire lookout on Norris Peak. While at Camp Pactola I helped man this station each summer and thinned forest stands during the winter. When the first snow fell in 1935, the fire season was over and I joined the remainder of my company at Camp Roubaix. I was on a porcupine hunting crew from shortly after I arrived at Roubaix until I was discharged.

"Though some people think it was a disgrace to be a CC, none of them were ever in a camp. I am not ashamed of anything I did in the CCC." . . . . . . George Hinds

Services for George H. Hinds, 75, who died Thursday at Northern Hills General Hospital in Deadwood, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Fidler Funeral Chapel in Lead with the Rev. Aron Wilterding officiating. Inurnment will be at Powell Cemetery near Ipswich Wednesday. A memorial has been established. He was born Dec. 13, 1915, at Wakefield, Neb., to Herbert and Inez (Heaton) Hinds. He married Margaret Griffith Nov. 29, 1939, at Ipswich. They moved to Lead in 1955 when he began working for Homestake Mining Co. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Lead. Survivors include his wife, Margaret of Lead; three daughters, Marlene Gisi of Hosmer, Nancy Cartwright of Lead and Sue LaRoche of Fort Pierre; two sons, Harry Hinds of Lead and Tom Hinds of Phoenix, Ariz.; three brothers, John Hinds of Ogden, Utah, Allen Hinds of Aberdeen and Paul Hinds of Carmel, Calif.; two sisters, Edith Whalen of Wichita, Kan., and Grace Carr of Faulkton; 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one brother, six half-brothers, one half- sister and two children in infancy.

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