Thutt, B. Frank (1873-1961)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1961 Jul 20 p. 1

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LONG-TIME PHYSICIAN AT ELIDA, OHIO CALLED BY DEATH

Bluffton, Ohio. — Dr. B. F. Thutt, 87, practicing physician at Elida, Ohio for many years before his retirement seven years ago, died July 6 at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Edgar L. Schumacher in Cleveland.

Dr. Thutt was president of the Farmers Bank of Elida. He formerly served on the Bluffton College Board of Trustees, and at one time taught at Goshen College.

Funeral services were held at Amherst, O. and in the First Methodist Church of Elida.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1961 Aug 31 p. 10

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Doctor Practiced in Ohio Community Nearly 50 Years

From a tribute written by Mrs. Lydia Shank, Goshen, Ind.

A LARGE gathering of community residents took place at the First Methodist Church, Elida, Ohio, on July 9 when funeral services were conducted for Dr. B. Frank Thutt, widely known and respected physician there for nearly half a century.

Dr. B. F. Thutt in his office. He died July 6 at Amherst, Ohio where he had lived in retirement the past few years.

The funeral brought together a wide variety of people, many of them former patients of Dr. Thutt, in tribute to one who had served them well. Relatives and friends, some of whom had not seen each other for half a century, gathered to show their respect and appreciation.

Born Sept. 19, 1873, at Bluffton, Ohio,the son of Peter and Mary (Steiner0 Thutt, H. F. Thutt attended public school in Hancock County, Ohio, and taught school there for six years. He received his A. B. degree from Ohio Northern University in 1902, after which he did a year of graduate study at the University of Chicago.

He taught science at Goshen College for two years before entering medical school at the University of Toledo. He began his practice at Elida in 1910, and received his 50-year honor pin last year from the American Medical Association.