Beckham County, Ok - Obits: Joseph Ritner, 1913 
Saturday, 04 October 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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RITNER, JOSEPH
(5 Jun 1913, Thursday, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Former Victory resident Mr. Joseph Ritner died at his home south and west
of Sayre Monday May 19th.  Funeral services were held at Plainview
Cemetery on Tuesday (Greer County).  Mr. Ritner leaves a wife and three
children to mourn his passing.
Mr. Ritner was known as a "jolly old soul."  His friends were numbered by
his acquaintances.
He served four years in the civil war as a union soldier; afterwards he
was with General Custer's troops.  On the day of "Custer's last battle" he
was assigned to a supply wagon; thereby he escaped the fate of his
comrades.  But he was a witness of the battle.  Many were the tales he
could tell of the war.

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