Ruben Elwood Lutz

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From FindAGrave:

OBITUARY - Pharos-Tribune, Logansport (IN) - August 20, 1952
REUBEN LUTZ, RETIRED ENGINEER, SUCCUMBS.
Peru, Ind.--Reuben E. Lutz, 66, 586 West Fifth Street, a native of Cass County, passed away at the Peru Nursing Home Tuesday at 1 p.m. after an illness of six years. He was a retired C & O engineer.

He was born in Cass County Jan. 11, 1986, the son of Samuel M. and Anna (Campbell) Lutz. He was married Aug. 12, 1910 to Hazel Cramer, who survives.

Survivors include the wife; two sisters, Miss Iva Lee Lutz, Peru, an Mrs. Thelma Yergen, Aiken, South Carolina. Three brothers and a sister preceded him in death.

Mr. Lutz moved to Peru from Wabash in 1910 and was a member of the First Methodist Church, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Eagles and Mannechoir lodges.

Services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the Eikenberry Funeral Home with #burial in the Falls Cemetery at Wabash. Friends may call at the Eikenberry Funeral Home.

(Courtesy of Friends of Falls Cemetery)

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Census Listings:

1920: Residing 210 West Fourth Street, Peru, Miami County, Indiana. Husband of Hazel; parents of Lucille. Occupation: Engineer - steam railroad.

1930: Residing 685 West Fifth Street, Peru, Miami County, Indiana. Husband of Hazel; parents of Lucille. Occupation: Locomotive engineer - steam railroad (Chesapeake & Ohio RR).

(Courtesy of Friends of Falls Cemetery)

Ruben married Hazel D. Cramer in Aug 1910. Hazel (daughter of Charles Henry Cramer and Leona Mae Haines) was born on 9 Apr 1889 in Wabash County, Indiana; died on 16 Jun 1972 in Peru, Miami County, Indiana; was buried in Falls Memorial Gardens, Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]