Obit: Ritter, Allen (Allan) #2 (1935 - 1951)

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Surnames: Ritter, McCray, Whittemore

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 07/05/1951

Ritter, Allen #2 (10 OCT 1935 - 1 JUL 1951)

At two o’clock Friday afternoon funeral services will be conducted from Griebenow’s Funeral Home for Allen Ritter, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ritter, Withee, who last his life in a drowning accident in Black River Sunday afternoon.

Dr. K. O. Crosby of St. Katherine’s Episcopal Church, Owen, will conducted the final rites and burial will be made at Riverside Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers will be Kenneth Mertens, Bill Krach, Jimmy Alberts, Larry Miller, Larry Hansen and Marlyn Plauman. In charge of flowers will be Marie Durbin, Joan and Barbara Johnson and Justine Kapla, while the flowere crs will be driven by Mrs. Bert Beilfuss and Mrs. Clarence Pyatt. Music during the service will be sung by Misses Harriet and Eunice Marking.

Allan Clarke Ritter was born on Oct. 10, 1935 in Neillsville, Wis. About nine years ago he moved to the Village of Withee (Clark Co., Wis.) with his parents and attended the public school in that village. This spring he was graduated from the eighth grade and was to have entered high school this fall.

Surviving him are his parents and 11 brothers and sisters, Mrs. Blaine (Pauline) McCray, Mrs. Art (Viola) Whittemore, Owen; Gordon, Chili; two brothers, Merlyn and Arlyn serving with the armed forces in Korea; Victor, Alice, Alfreida, Glenn, Pearl and Paul Jr., of Withee.

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