Mrs. Emma Gardner Kurtz, aged 73, died at her farm home two miles north of Leiters Ford at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Death was due to heart trouble and followed an illness of fifteen months. The deceased was born in Patterson, Ohio on September 16, 1862 and was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Gardner. On March 14, 1888 in a ceremony which was performed in Patterson the deceased was married to Frank Kurtz. Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz have been residents of Fulton county for about forty years, 31 of which was spent near Leiters Ford and the remaining nine years near Kewanna. Mrs. Kurtz was an active member of the Methodist church and the Cloverleaf chapter of the Rebekah lodge at Leiters Ford. Survivors are the husband; son, Darl, Waukegan, Ill.; four daughters, Mrs. Rex Bernard and Mrs. Everett Paul, both of South Bend; Mrs. Clifford Cowen, Mishawaka and Mrs. A. W. Goodwin of this city; six brothers and sisters, Mrs. Hannah Wilmouth, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Rose Cole, Dunkirk, Ohio; Mrs. William Waxler, Patterson, Ohio; John and Ross, Pueblo, Colo., and George, Carey, Ohio, and a number of grandchildren. The funeral services will be held from the Luckenbill Chapel in Leiters Ford at 2 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev. M. W. Crider, pastor of the Leiters Ford Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be at Kewanna.
Mrs. Emma Gardner Kurtz, aged 73, died at her farm home two miles north of Leiters Ford at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Death was due to heart trouble and followed an illness of fifteen months. The deceased was born in Patterson, Ohio on September 16, 1862 and was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Gardner. On March 14, 1888 in a ceremony which was performed in Patterson the deceased was married to Frank Kurtz. Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz have been residents of Fulton county for about forty years, 31 of which was spent near Leiters Ford and the remaining nine years near Kewanna. Mrs. Kurtz was an active member of the Methodist church and the Cloverleaf chapter of the Rebekah lodge at Leiters Ford. Survivors are the husband; son, Darl, Waukegan, Ill.; four daughters, Mrs. Rex Bernard and Mrs. Everett Paul, both of South Bend; Mrs. Clifford Cowen, Mishawaka and Mrs. A. W. Goodwin of this city; six brothers and sisters, Mrs. Hannah Wilmouth, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Rose Cole, Dunkirk, Ohio; Mrs. William Waxler, Patterson, Ohio; John and Ross, Pueblo, Colo., and George, Carey, Ohio, and a number of grandchildren. The funeral services will be held from the Luckenbill Chapel in Leiters Ford at 2 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev. M. W. Crider, pastor of the Leiters Ford Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be at Kewanna.
Family Members
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Minnie Maria Gardner Miller
1861–1919
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Mary Katherine "Kitty" Gardner McMaster
1864–1930
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Rose May Gardner Cole
1866–1936
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Daisy Gardner
1868–1868
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Harry Edmund Gardner
1870–1903
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John Caleb Gardner
1872–1940
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George Gardner
1875–1948
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Bessie M. Gardner Wilmoth
1880–1970
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Roscoe Byron "Ross" Gardner
1883–1955
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Max Llewllyn Gardner
1886–1918
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