FUNERAL FOR ALGER LEADER TO BE SUNDAY
(Special to The Lima News)
ALGER, Feb. 17 - Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Alger Methodist church for John Fred Kirts, 50, business man and civic leader who died Friday of a heart attack.
Kirts, operator of the Kirts general store for 21 years before his death, was president of the Alger Savings bank and a member of the Hardin-co board of education. He had served formerly on the Alger board of education and was a member of the Ada Masonic lodge and the Alger Methodist church.
Surviving are his widow, Gladys; four daughters, Dinah and Laura Louise, at home, Mrs. Donna Huston of Homer, Mich., and Mrs. Phyllis Bamburg of south of Ada; a granddaughter; two brothers, Burt of Harrod and Owen of Cleveland, and a sister, Shirley Ann Kirts of Alger. His father, J. W. Kirts, died two months ago.
Rev. Hiram Holdridge will conduct the services and burial will be in Alger cemetery.
The body was removed Saturday afternoon from the Hanson funeral home to the residence to remain until 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, February 18, 1945)
(Special to The Lima News)
ALGER, Feb. 17 - Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Alger Methodist church for John Fred Kirts, 50, business man and civic leader who died Friday of a heart attack.
Kirts, operator of the Kirts general store for 21 years before his death, was president of the Alger Savings bank and a member of the Hardin-co board of education. He had served formerly on the Alger board of education and was a member of the Ada Masonic lodge and the Alger Methodist church.
Surviving are his widow, Gladys; four daughters, Dinah and Laura Louise, at home, Mrs. Donna Huston of Homer, Mich., and Mrs. Phyllis Bamburg of south of Ada; a granddaughter; two brothers, Burt of Harrod and Owen of Cleveland, and a sister, Shirley Ann Kirts of Alger. His father, J. W. Kirts, died two months ago.
Rev. Hiram Holdridge will conduct the services and burial will be in Alger cemetery.
The body was removed Saturday afternoon from the Hanson funeral home to the residence to remain until 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, February 18, 1945)
FUNERAL FOR ALGER LEADER TO BE SUNDAY
(Special to The Lima News)
ALGER, Feb. 17 - Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Alger Methodist church for John Fred Kirts, 50, business man and civic leader who died Friday of a heart attack.
Kirts, operator of the Kirts general store for 21 years before his death, was president of the Alger Savings bank and a member of the Hardin-co board of education. He had served formerly on the Alger board of education and was a member of the Ada Masonic lodge and the Alger Methodist church.
Surviving are his widow, Gladys; four daughters, Dinah and Laura Louise, at home, Mrs. Donna Huston of Homer, Mich., and Mrs. Phyllis Bamburg of south of Ada; a granddaughter; two brothers, Burt of Harrod and Owen of Cleveland, and a sister, Shirley Ann Kirts of Alger. His father, J. W. Kirts, died two months ago.
Rev. Hiram Holdridge will conduct the services and burial will be in Alger cemetery.
The body was removed Saturday afternoon from the Hanson funeral home to the residence to remain until 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, February 18, 1945)
(Special to The Lima News)
ALGER, Feb. 17 - Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Alger Methodist church for John Fred Kirts, 50, business man and civic leader who died Friday of a heart attack.
Kirts, operator of the Kirts general store for 21 years before his death, was president of the Alger Savings bank and a member of the Hardin-co board of education. He had served formerly on the Alger board of education and was a member of the Ada Masonic lodge and the Alger Methodist church.
Surviving are his widow, Gladys; four daughters, Dinah and Laura Louise, at home, Mrs. Donna Huston of Homer, Mich., and Mrs. Phyllis Bamburg of south of Ada; a granddaughter; two brothers, Burt of Harrod and Owen of Cleveland, and a sister, Shirley Ann Kirts of Alger. His father, J. W. Kirts, died two months ago.
Rev. Hiram Holdridge will conduct the services and burial will be in Alger cemetery.
The body was removed Saturday afternoon from the Hanson funeral home to the residence to remain until 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
(published in The Lima News, Sunday, February 18, 1945)
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