Joe Ritzie

Submitted 18 October 2025 by Carol Sanman

Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 3 April 1951, page 5

RITZIE-Requiem High Mass will be sung at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St Stephen Church for Joe Ritzie, 214 E. 10th street, Newport, 77-year-old veteran driver for the Keller Hay & Grain Co., Newport, who died Monday at his home. Prayers will be said at 9:30 a.m. at the Radel Funeral Home, Newport. Burial will be in St. Stephen Cemetery.

Mr. Ritzie, who had worked for the firm for 35 years, was a native of Alexandria. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, and the Holy Name Society of St. Stephen Church.

He leaves his widow, Mrs. Anna Ritzie; two daughters, Sister Mary Matthews, La Junta hospital, Cal. and Mrs. Margaret Well beloved, Newport; a son, Hal Ritzie, Mt. Washington; two stepsisters, Mrs. Margaret Johnson and Mrs. L.S. Schaeffer; both of Bethel, O.; a stepbrother, George Ritzie, in Ohio and 4 grandchildren.


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