Lyle Hoskins Kutz
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - July 28, 1944
Lyle H. Kutz Given Military Funeral
FIRING SQUAD FROM CAMP HALE AND SELECTIVE OFFICERS OF DENVER ATTENDED.
Lyle Hoskins Kutz was born Jan. 1 14, 1895, in Quincy, Mich. At the ?, age of 10 he moved with the family , to Denver, Colo., where he was liv-' ng when he enlisted in the United | 1 States Marine Corps in 1915. His' term of service with the Marines,' thhirty-eight months, was spent in! Pekin, China, during World War I.i Upon his return from that country in 1919, he came to Gypsum, Colo., where his family had moved. Here he met Ruby M. Nissen of Chicago, whom he married April 13, 1921. They lived in Gypsum until 1923, when they moved to Chicago, and lived there until 9 years later, when they returned to Gypsum to live. On May 1, 1941, Mr .Kutz was appointed clerk to the local Selective Service board, and later was given an appointment with the state Selective Service board as traveling inspector and instructor, which position he was filling at the time of his entirely unlooked for death on July 17, 1944, at his home in Denver. Funeral services were held in the American Legion hut in Gypsum on Thursday, July 20, with Rev. Henry H. Baker of Glenwood Springs, delivering the funeral discourse. Mr. Kutz was very active in American Legion, Forty-and-Eight and the Last Squad activities. For years as adjutant of Eagle River Valley Post 150, American Legion, his interest was very instrumental in keeping the post alive during times when interest of members lagged. He. was accorded a military funeral, a firing squad and bugler from Camp Hale being in attendance to participate in the rites. Pall bearers were all members of Leadville Voiture Local 1132 of the Forty andi Eight—J. 0. Allen, Wm. H. Luby, George A. Strohm, Frank Van Horn, Wayne T. Jones, Ray Angel. As a mark of the high regard of men of the state with whom he worked, Ihe funeral was attended by Lt. Col. Howard E. Reed, state director of Selective Service and Walden E. Sweet, Lesley G. Roeder, Allen Roush and Whitney F. Warden, all of Denver, all men with whom he was associated on the state Selective Service board. During the impressive ceremonies in the hall, Mrs. Lola Borah and Mrs Elmer Lundgren furnished beautiful music. It was one of the most impressive and widely attended funerals ever held in Gypsum, attesting to the high regard in which Lyle was held by his friends and acquaintances. He j|s survived by his widpw, Ruby M. Kutz; two sisters, Ha Stayton of Denver and lone Oleson, Minturn; three brother, Wayne of Gypsum, Vern, of Highland, Calif., Charles, of Minturn: two uncles, Cliff C. Kutz, Denver, Charles Doll, Gypsum ,and numerous neices and nephews. Those from a distance attending the funeral were; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Johnson, sister and brother-in-law of Mrs. Kutz of Wauwatosa, Wis.; and her brother, Orval Dilley, Chicago; Vern Kutz of Highland, Calif; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kutz and Mrs. Ha Stayton of Denver. Lyle Kutz was a loyal, progressive citizen and his untimely death is to be regretted. His widow and family have the sincere sympathy , of a wide circle of frends, not only 1 at home, but from over the state.
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