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Henry Lewis Wirt

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Henry Lewis Wirt

Birth
Death
1974 (aged 85–86)
Burial
Wakarusa, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Henry Lewis Wirt, son of Charles H Wirt & his 1st wife Alma D Waterbury Wirt.
Charles 2nd married Ida Henrietta Carls Wirt

Henry married Apr 1910 in Elkhart Co,IN to Marie Clarissa aka Carrie Marie Ellis Wirt, daughter of Fred Ellis & his wife Agnes Artley Ellis

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Henry L Wirt, 85, Wakarusa Route 1, died at 6:30 am Monday, Jan. 21, at Elkhart General Hospital, where he was admitted on Sunday after suffering a stroke.

He was born in Quincy, Mich, Feb 12, 1888, to Charles and Alma Wirt, and married the former Marie Ellis on April 12, 1910.

Mr Wirt was an employee of the Standard Oil Co for 24 years, retiring in 1943.

Surviving with the widow are three daughters, Mrs Simon (Avenelle) Boorda, South Bend, Mrs Robert (Josephine) Bowlby, Elkhart, and Mrs Dale (Kathleen) Sherk, Bremen; a brother, Charles Tompkins, Elkhart; a half sister, Miss Winifred Wirt, Hammond; 10 grandchildren; and 11 great grandchildren.

Services will be held at 3 pm today, Wednesday, at the Lienhart Funeral Home with the Rev Charles Henderson of the Wakarusa Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Olive Cemetery.

Wakarusa Tribune
23 January 1974
Henry Lewis Wirt, son of Charles H Wirt & his 1st wife Alma D Waterbury Wirt.
Charles 2nd married Ida Henrietta Carls Wirt

Henry married Apr 1910 in Elkhart Co,IN to Marie Clarissa aka Carrie Marie Ellis Wirt, daughter of Fred Ellis & his wife Agnes Artley Ellis

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Henry L Wirt, 85, Wakarusa Route 1, died at 6:30 am Monday, Jan. 21, at Elkhart General Hospital, where he was admitted on Sunday after suffering a stroke.

He was born in Quincy, Mich, Feb 12, 1888, to Charles and Alma Wirt, and married the former Marie Ellis on April 12, 1910.

Mr Wirt was an employee of the Standard Oil Co for 24 years, retiring in 1943.

Surviving with the widow are three daughters, Mrs Simon (Avenelle) Boorda, South Bend, Mrs Robert (Josephine) Bowlby, Elkhart, and Mrs Dale (Kathleen) Sherk, Bremen; a brother, Charles Tompkins, Elkhart; a half sister, Miss Winifred Wirt, Hammond; 10 grandchildren; and 11 great grandchildren.

Services will be held at 3 pm today, Wednesday, at the Lienhart Funeral Home with the Rev Charles Henderson of the Wakarusa Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Olive Cemetery.

Wakarusa Tribune
23 January 1974


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