Walter Otto Hitz
Service this Thursday for Walter Hitz
Walter O. Hitz, a resident of Niobrara County for over 70 years, died Friday at the Veteran's Hospital at Hot Springs, S.D. after a short illness. Funeral service was being held this Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 at Peet Chapel.
Walter Otto Hitz was born at Hosmer, S. D., May 13, 1899 to Christofher Herman and Marie Bolt Hitz. He came to Wyoming with his parents when a small child and grew to young manhood on a ranch five miles northeast of Lusk.
He enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1942 and after his discharge returned to Lusk to engage in ranching with his brother until his brother retired from the windmill and pump business. When his brother retired, Walter took over the business until his retirement in 1969. In 1974 he sold the ranch and moved to Lusk.
The Rev. Robert Boutwell is conducting the funeral. Minerva Watson is organist, and Mark Lohr is singing "Beyond the Sunset", "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" and "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning".
Casket bearers are Orval Allen, Edward Hale, Kenneth Gropp, Gordon Gropp, Rex Heth and Roy Turnbull.
Honorary bearers are Judson P. Watson, Joe O'Brien, Ernest Hansen, Robert Scott, Gilbert Brinckerhoff and Jim McAllister.
Hitz is survived by a sister Margaret Haight of Lusk.
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