Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rutz, Henry C. 1947
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, December 2, 1947
Henry Rutz, 51, for more than 18 years an employee of the Ionia county road 
commission and thirteenth on its list of employees in point of service, died 
at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday of what was believed to have been a skull injury 
resulting from a fall Monday afternoon.

Rutz was reported by fellow employees to have fallen from a truck load of sand 
near the Hayes farm north of Muir about 3:30 p.m. Monday as he attempted to 
step from the box of the truck to the cab.  Fellow workers said Rutz fell head 
first to the gravel highway striking on his head.  Knocked unconscious he was 
brought to the road commission office but had recovered consciousness.

After preliminary examination at the road commission office Rutz was taken to 
the office of Dr. Edmund S. Socha where he later collapsed.  He was removed to 
the Ionia Memorial hospital where he died.

Rutz was seriously injured and suffered a skull fracture last April when he 
was thrown from a county road commission road scraper near Portland.  Coroner 
Harry Myers said a post mortem would be held to determine cause of death and 
to determine if the previous injury could have caused him to fall Monday.  
Rutz had been an employee of the road commission for 18 years, eight months 
and 12 days.  For several years he was a truck driver but for the past year 
since his accident at Portland he had been assisting drivers.  At the time of 
the Monday afternoon accident Rutz was a member of a sanding crew which was 
sanding icy spots on the Hayes road.  The fall was from four to five feet.

Coroner Myers said an inquest was to be held Tuesday afternoon.

Henry C. Rutz was born February 25, 1896 at Grand Rapids and came to Ionia in 
1923 working for three years for the Ionia Ice company and on March 20, 1929, 
became a road commission employee.

As a veteran of World War I he was a member of the Ionia American Legion.  
During the war Rutz served with Company L, 18th infantry, being discharged 
September 24, 1919, after serving in the American army of occupation in 
Germany.  He saw action in several major offenses and at one time was a German 
prisoner but escaped.  His last action was in the Argonne offense.  He was 
also a member of the Ionia Elks.

Surviving are his wife, Katherine; a son, Charles, of Belding; two daughters, 
Mrs. Norman Sebring of Charlotte and Mrs. Loren Tingley of Belding; five 
sisters, Mrs. Anna Kuhn, Mrs. Herbert Timmerman, Mrs. William Cross, Mrs. 
Elmer Beyer and Mrs. Orville Hull, all of Grand Rapids; and four grandchildren.

Funeral services are to be conducted from the Myers Funeral home Thursday 
afternoon at 2 p.m. with Dr. Paul L. Stewart of Ionia officiating.  Interment 
will be in Highland Park cemetery.


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