Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rittersdorf, Ardith E. (Trann) 1999 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net October 22, 2010, 11:41 pm Ionia Sentinel Standard, 2 Oct 1999 Ardith E. Rittersdorf, 78, of Greenville, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1999, at her home. She was born Sept. 29, 1921, in Portland to Miles and Neva Covert Trann. Ardith graduated from Belding High School with the class of 1938. She was a member of St. Charles Catholic Church, Greenville. She was married Sept. 12, 1942, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Miriam, to Joseph Rittersdorf and he survives with their children Jean and Charles Smith, Karen and Phil Anderson all of Greenville, Barbara and Don Brockway of Belding, JoAnne and Ted Nadwodnick of Gowen, Peggy and Dave Hiler of Greenville, Richard and Rosalie Rittersdorf of St. Petersburg, Fla., Joseph Rittersdorf, Jr. of Flint, David and Becky Rittersdorf of Allegan, Steve and Carol Rittersdorf, Peter and Ruth Rittersdorf, all of Greenville and Mike Fisher of Flint. She is also survived by 27 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren,; one sister, Thelma Russman of Portland and one brother Ray Trann of Smyrna. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother Al Trann and one grandson Kevin Rittersdorf. Funeral Mass will be at 12 p.m. Saturday at St. Charles Catholic Church with Father Fred Brucker officiating. Interment will be in Rest Haven Memory Gardens. Visitation will be Friday from 3 until 4:30 and 7 until 9 p.m. at the Johnson Funeral Home, with a rosary at 8 p.m. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association or Veritas. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/r/rittersd9651nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb