CURTIS JORTH RITES HELD WEDNESDAY

Funeral services were held in Spencer, Iowa yesterday (Wednesday) for Curtis Jorth, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jorth of Spencer.

Mr. Jorth had been a student at the Trinity Seminary here and would have been ordained as minister in the spring. He had been forced to give up his studies and return to his home the fore part of December because of illness.

More than fifty Dana students went to Spencer Wednesday to attend the funeral services.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

Name: Curtis Gerald Jorth
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 5 Mar 1947
Event Place: Spencer, Clay, Iowa, United States
Event Place (Original): Spencer, Iowa, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Marital Status: Single
Ethnicity: American
Race: white
Occupation: Student
Birth Date: 7 Jan 1924
Birthplace: Dickinson County
Death Date: 2 Mar 1947
Death Place: Milford, Dickinson Co., Iowa
Cemetery: North Lawn
Father's Name: Oscar
Father's Birthplace: Clay Co., Ia.
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Beck
Mother's Birthplace: Clay Co., Ia.

Reference ID: 234
GS Film Number: 1255705
Digital Folder Number: 004341408
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B00003-7
System Origin: EASY
Record Number: 95
Citing this Record "Iowa Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XVH9-RXW : 16 January 2020), Elizabeth Beck in entry for Curtis Gerald Jorth, 1947.