OBIT: George E. "Cappy" FRITZ, 1975, Stoystown RD, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed/proofread by Helen Miller/Nancy Edwards Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ FRITZ George E. "Cappy" Fritz. 86, of Stoystown RD 3, died April 20, 1975, in Somerset Community Hospital. Born Dec 23, 1888, in Quemahoning Township, son of George A. and Sarah (Barnett) Fritz. Preceded in death by parents, and wife, the former Edna Petrikin, a son, Ernest and two brothers. Survived by a daughter, Mrs. Harold J. (Sara) Horner of Somerset, two grandsons, Douglas Horner and Allen Fritz, and three great-grandchildren. He was a brother of Ira C. of Friedens RD 2. A retired farmer and former partner in Fritz Brothers Farms, member of Grace Lutheran Church, Stoystown, Somerset Lodge F & AM, Harrisburg Consistory, Jaffa Shrine, Altoona, Junior OUAM, Somerset County Shrine Club and a former Quemahoning Township school director. Family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday (today) 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Charles R. Deaner Funeral Home, Stoystown, where services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday with the Rev. James R. Ling officiating. Interment, Oddfellow Cemetery, Stoystown. Masonic services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Somerset American, April 21, 1975 [F0965]