Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....Catherine RITTER, 1908 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shawn McGreevy shawnmcgreevy@geatz.com "Evening Times" Cumberland, Maryland, Monday 13 Jul 1908: " MRS. RITTER DEAD-The Widow Of The Late Paul Ritter Passes Away-Mrs. Catherine Ritter, widow of the late Paul Ritter, died at 10 o'clock yesterday at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. George P. Geatz, aged 65 years. The deceased was well-known and respected and leaves the following children: Messrs. Emil Ritter, of Pittsburgh; Jacob and Paul of the firm of Paul Ritter's Sons, Cumberland; Alfred, of Cumberland; Chas. Ritter, Elkins, W. Va.; Mrs. Sebastian Fleckenstein, Mrs. George P. Geatz, Mrs. Walter Hamilton, and Miss Katie Ritter, of Cumberland. Mrs. Ritter came from a prominent German family of Hesse Damstadt, of which she was a native. Her marriage to Mr. Ritter occurred after their arrival in this country. The funeral service will be held at the residence of Mrs. Geatz, 22 Smallwood Street, 10 o'clock Tuesday morning with interment in Greenmont Cemetery. Rev. S. J. Braun, of the Bedford Street German Lutheran Church, will officiate." This file is located at http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/allegany/obits/r/ritter-c.txt