Amstutz, Ira Vernon (1898-1940)

The Mennonite obituary: 1940 Oct 8 p. 14

Birth date: 1898 Aug 3

text of obituary:

IRA VERNON AMSTUTZ, SON OF JOHN AND SUSAN (STEINER) AMSTUTZ was born near Orrville, Ohio, August 3, 1898, and passed away September 4, 1940, at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Death came quickly and peacefully to this young man, the cause of his death being heart failure.

At the age of two years he moved with his parents to Geary, Oklahoma. In 1908 with the family he moved to Salem, Oregon, where he lived until the mother and father died. In 1916 he, with the other children, returned to Geary. On April 23, 1916, he united with the First Mennonite Church at Geary.

On August 21, 1919, he was married to Edith Stumbo. To this union were born four children, Jerry Lou, Marry Francis, Ira Jr., and Robert Lee, all of whom survive. He also leaves five sisters, Mrs. Celesta Base, Mission, Texas; Mrs. Lydia Funk, Calumet, Okla., Mrs. Pearl Coil, Geary, Okla., Mrs. Elma Payne, Oklahoma City, Okla., Miss Nora Amstutz, Los Angeles, Calif., and four brothers, Wesley, Harvey, Earl, and Dillman of Geary, Milo of Tulsa, Okla., and many other relatives and friends to mourn his departure.

Funeral services were held at Tulsa, Saturday, September seventh, at two p. m. Words of comfort were spoken by Rev. J. W. Porter, on first Samuel twentieth chapter, a part of the third verse. “There is but a step between me and death." Interment in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Tulsa, Okla.

—Mrs. P. E. Frantz