OBIT: George M. WENTZ, 1916, Lewistown, Mifflin County, PA

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LEWISTOWN MAN IS INSTANTLY KILLED
G. M. Wentz, on Fire Truck, Thrown to Pavement and Skull Crushed

Special to the Tribune.
  Lewistown, December 22. - George M. Wentz, a prominent citizen, was 
thrown from the fire truck of Henderson Volunteer Fire company No. 1, 
when it collided with a telephone pole this afternoon and was instantly 
killed.  The truck had responded to an alarm for a flue fire and was 
dashing east on West Third street when it met an auto coming west at 
the intersection of Valley and Third streets.  The machine was 
traveling in violation of an ordinance requiring all traffic to stop at 
the alarm of fire.
  Schuyler Brought, at the wheel, turned the fire truck sharply to 
avoid colliding with the auto.  It skidded and ran into the pole with 
such force that Wentz was thrown from the seat of the truck and landed 
on the pavement.  He was picked up dead, his skull having been crushed.
  George Wentz was chief of the Henderson company, having three years 
ago succeeded his father, F. H. Wentz, who had been chief since 1872.  
He was 46 years old and is survived by his father, one sister, Mrs. 
Edward Mayberry, his wife and one daughter, Miss Mildred, who is a 
teacher in the Coombs Conservatory of Music, Philadelphia.  He was a 
rising business man prominent in Masonic circles and in the Knights of 
Malta.
  Samuel Burke and Charles Seities sustained minor injuries and the 
truck was badly wrecked.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, December 23, 1916