OBIT: Joseph RITZ, 1910, native of Blair County, PA

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JOSEPH RITZ.

Joseph Ritz, a fireman in the Locomotive Department of the Cambria 
Steel Company, died between 4 and 5 o'clock last evening a the Ritz 
home, No. 12 Wyoming street, Westmont, aged twenty-eight years. Mr. 
Ritz had been ill for a long time with Bright's disease and spent 
several weeks as a patient at the Memorial Hospital, being removed to 
his home about a fortnight ago. The deceased was a son of W. H. Ritz, 
of Altoona, where he was born and reared. He came to Johnstown about 
ten years ago and had since been working for the Cambria Steel Company. 
He is survived by his wife whose maiden name was Bertha Spotz; two 
daughters, Katharine and Dorothy Ritz; his father, a brother, and by 
three sisters, one of the latter being Mrs. Steiner, of the Eighth 
Ward, this city. The remains will be taken to Altoona on the 1:56 train 
tomorrow afternoon for burial.

Johnstown, PA Tribune, Tuesday, 22 November 1910, p. 8