Barbara was the second youngest child of the sixteen surviving children of John Winans, Sr. and Leah Harris Armstrong. She married David Leroy Lutz June 6, 1959. They had two sons, Dale Leroy and Michael Paul who was stillborn. She died of a blood clot in her brain when she was just 26 years old. Her sister Joyce and her husband Ed adopted Dale and raised him as their own.

OBITUARY:

CORTLAND- Mrs. David L. (Barbara Armstrong) Lutz, 26, Rt. 3, Cortland, died at 1:20 p.m. Thursday at Trumbull Memorial Hospital, following a 3 week illness.

Born Oct. 8, 1940 in Bazetta Twp., she was the daughter of Leah Harris and the late John Armstrong. On June 6, 1959, she married David L. Lutz, who survives.

A member of West Bazetta Christian Church, she was employed by Ohio Lamp Plant of General Electric Co., in Warren.
Besides her mother of Mecca Township and her husband, she leaves a son, Dale, at home; 10 sisters, Mrs. Clara Webb of Greene and Mrs. Ila Harvey of Mecca, Mrs. Charlotte Lynn of Southington, Mrs. Joyce Guinaugh and Mrs. Doris Knapp, both of Bristolville, Mrs. Leah Phillips of Bazetta, Mrs. Joan Mellish of Poland, Mrs. Jewell Craven of Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Pauline Bonsall of Woodbury, N.J., Mrs. Sharon Rinzella of Mecca; four brothers, John Armstrong Jr.of Champion Township, Charles Armstrong of Mecca, Paul Armstrong of Garfield Heights and Willard Armstrong of Bazetta.

Services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Love Funeral Home. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m.

FUNERAL NOTICE:

Barbara Armstrong Lutz

Funeral Services for Barbara Armstrong Lutz, Rt. 3, Cortland, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Love Funeral Home, Cortland.

The Rev. James Osuga officiated and burial was in Hillside Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Harold Everitt, Louis Palich, Norwood Collier, Duane Williamson, Gohen Mahner and B.D. Faler.