Margaret and Samuel Lester Rutz

Margaret and Samuel Lester Rutz

Keller, Margaret Rutz (1897-unknown)

Rutz, Samuel Lester (1889 - 1974)

Photograph of two siblings, Margaret and Samuel Lester Rutz, as children.

Margaret and Samuel were born to Jacob H. Rutz (1857-1937) and his first wife, Emma Alice (Feller) (1861-1910) Rutz. They lived in Toms Brook.

Margaret grew up and married Lawrence Keller (1897-1925) in 1923 in Strasburg. The Rev. J.D. Hamaker officiated.

Lawrence was from Maurertown, the son of Frank L. (1868-1900) and Mary Belle (Bauserman) (1870-1942) Keller. Lawrence’s occupation when he married was as a Postmaster.

Samuel Lester Rutz married Mary Etta Rutz (1888-1967). The couple had a son, Lewis Henry Rutz (1911-1991). Samuel worked doing automobile body work for many years and lived in Toms Brook at the end of his life. He is buried in Harrisville, near Toms Brook.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

Undated

Identified in January 2002 by Virginia M. Rutz, daughter-in-law of Samuel Lester Rutz. She had other pictures of him at home.

Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.

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