OBIT: James Clair WERTZ, 1918, Lewistown, Mifflin County, PA

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GUNNERY SERGEANT KILLED IN ACTION
Lewistown Friends Receive Word That James C. Wertz Was Killed June 2

Special to the Tribune.
  Lewistown, Pa., June 12. - Gunnery Sergeant James Clair Wertz, whose 
name appears among the killed in action list this morning was a son of 
the late Jack Wertz, a locomotive engineer who was killed in a wreck at 
the north end of the railroad bridge spanning the Juniata river between 
here and Lewistown Junction twenty years ago.  The young man was only 
eight months old at the time of his father's death.  Sergeant Wertz 
served an enlistment in the army and enlisted in the navy about a year 
ago and was soon awarded a medal for marksmanship.  A letter received 
from him only a short time ago said he was acting as secretary to the 
captain while on board.  A telegram received by friends here says the 
young man was killed in action on June 2nd.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday morning, June 13, 1918, page 3