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Dorothy Gene HAMILTON FRITZ

Rogers City (Rogers) Cemetery
Benton County,
Arkansas

November 14, 1915 - September 4, 2005

*Obituary
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
Tuesday, September 6, 2005

NORMAN, Okla. — Dorothy Gene Ritz, 89, of Norman died Sept. 4, 2005, in Norman. She was born Nov. 14, 1915, in Bentonville to Ocie Robinson and Eugene Hobbs Hamilton.

She grew up in Rogers, and stated teaching at the age of 19 after two years of college. She taught for 10 years in the Rogers public schools, taught six years at Arkansas Tech, and at Oklahoma University she worked with prospective student teachers. She retired from the university in 1981.

At the university she was involved with Delta Kappa Gamma and the women's group, PEO. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and was a volunteer at church and with the Laubach Literacy Program.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Alphonse Joseph Fritz, to whom she was married Jan. 30, 1957.

Survivors include her cousins, Ethel and Tom Curry, Paul and Margarett Griffin, Dan and Mary Cowling, all of Little Rock, John and Marie Coleman of Senatobia, Miss., Wanda and Bill Yarbrough of Sharpsburg, Ga., A.C. Beck of Carrolton, Texas, and Louis Beck of Bentonville.

Graveside services will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday at Rogers Cemetery.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Primrose Funeral Service in Norman.

Visitation will be from 8 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Contributed on 11/12/14 by wfields55
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Submitted: 11/12/14 • Approved: 11/13/14 • Last Updated: 11/16/14 • R1051246-G1051245-S3

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