Martin Lloyd HartungLloyd John Hartung was born in Dickeyville, Wisconsin, on August 28, 1916, the second of nine children of Leonard John and Dorothy (Dora) Weber Hartung. He attended Pleasant View Grammar School, Vinegar Hill, Galena, Illinois from 1922 to 1930, and received the Confirmation name, Francis, at St. Francis de Sales Church in Hazel Green, Wisconsin in November, 1928. The next ten years were spent with his family, working on the farm in Hazel Green. Between 1940 and 1952, he worked for the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, both on their farm and as a maintenance man, "a real handy man." For the next two years he worked in Dubuque, saved his earnings and in the summer of 1954 took a trip to Rome before entering the Order.

Lloyd Hartung entered the Order as a novice cooperator brother on October 3, 1954, at St. Peter Martyr Priory in Winona, Minnesota, and received the habit and his religious name of Martin on April 5,1955. A year later he made first profession, then continued in formation and maintenance duties at Winona until August of 1963 when he was assigned to St. Dominic Priory in Oak Park, Illinois where he worked as janitor for both the Priory and Fenwick High School.

Brother Martin was assigned to the Bolivian missions in August of 1964 and en route was sent to the language school of the St. James Fathers in Lima to learn Spanish. He wrote that his lack of education deterred him from learning the language well, especially grammar, and later after several years in Bolivia, that he was still not very proficient in Spanish but that "if a man can bring lots of get-up-in-the-morning-and-go, and an interest in helping the people in a very simple way, more by example than by word, he's bringing enough."

In May of 1972, Brother Martin returned to the States for a home visit and was then asked to assist with the maintenance work at St. Rose Priory and Aquinas Institute in Dubuque, Iowa. His work there included maintenance of the grounds and cars as well as working with the other brothers on the maintenance and repair of the buildings. In 1981, when Aquinas Institute of Theology was moved to its present location at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, Martin remained in Dubuque as caretaker of the facility until the property was sold to Emmaus Bible College in 1984. Once his duties had been taken over by College personnel, he moved to the Priory of St. Thomas Aquinas in River Forest, Illinois, to assist with the care of the grounds and physical plant there.

In late December, 1990, Brother Martin went to Mexico on vacation. On December 23,

while touring the central plaza in Oaxaca, Mexico, he died of a massive heart attack. Following the celebration of a Mass of Christian Burial at the Priory of St. Thomas Aquinas in River Forest, Illinois, he was buried in the Dominican plot at All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on December 29, 1990.