They began their family and moved with Simon's brothers by train cars to Wellington Colorado where they had purchased what appeared to be a flourishing farm with a dairy and 2 story house. When the family arrived with their 6 young children, all their belongings and animals, they found they had been swindled. The farm was on a dry-land (desert) with no well water and only a 2 room house.
Myrta made the best of things and helped Simon make the farm run until they could move closer to Fort Collins to a better place, the "Plummer Farm" next door to a school on the corner of Vine Drive and what is now Timberline Road.
Her oldest son and his family built and moved into a house nearby, but when she watched a tornado take that house, Myrta had this son's family (who had been safely hiding in a ditch) move in with hers.
This enterprising woman helped work the dairy, kept house, cooked, cleaned and made her family's clothing (including quilts.) She made butter which she sold to restaurants in Fort Collins.
Myrta gave birth to 15 children, the last were twins. All but baby Alice lived to adulthood and married. Myrta succombed to complications of breast cancer when her youngest child was 5 years old. (January 8, 1928) She and Simon had 19 grandchildren.
Myrta's children (and grandchildren) were very close and gathered together to support each other and celebrate family events until the last child had passed away.
"Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her."
They began their family and moved with Simon's brothers by train cars to Wellington Colorado where they had purchased what appeared to be a flourishing farm with a dairy and 2 story house. When the family arrived with their 6 young children, all their belongings and animals, they found they had been swindled. The farm was on a dry-land (desert) with no well water and only a 2 room house.
Myrta made the best of things and helped Simon make the farm run until they could move closer to Fort Collins to a better place, the "Plummer Farm" next door to a school on the corner of Vine Drive and what is now Timberline Road.
Her oldest son and his family built and moved into a house nearby, but when she watched a tornado take that house, Myrta had this son's family (who had been safely hiding in a ditch) move in with hers.
This enterprising woman helped work the dairy, kept house, cooked, cleaned and made her family's clothing (including quilts.) She made butter which she sold to restaurants in Fort Collins.
Myrta gave birth to 15 children, the last were twins. All but baby Alice lived to adulthood and married. Myrta succombed to complications of breast cancer when her youngest child was 5 years old. (January 8, 1928) She and Simon had 19 grandchildren.
Myrta's children (and grandchildren) were very close and gathered together to support each other and celebrate family events until the last child had passed away.
"Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her."
Family Members
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Charley De Los Fritz
1892–1983
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Elsie Louella Fritz Lang
1893–1955
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Vernon C Fritz
1895–1984
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Bessie Marie Fritz Tuttle
1897–1993
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Rodney Harmon Fritz
1899–1996
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Alfred William Fritz
1900–1985
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Ernest Fritz
1902–1992
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Ellis Clay Fritz
1904–1981
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Clark J. Fritz
1906–1999
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Merill Delos Fritz
1908–1978
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Sgt Arlie B Fritz
1909–1983
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Doris O Truax
1911–1998
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Alma M Fritz Mefford
1913–1997
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Alice Fritz
1915–1915
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Alvin Delos "Buddy/Ford" Fritz
1915–2006
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