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Submitted: 6/11/22 • Approved: 6/12/22 • Last Updated: 6/15/22 • R1436241-G1436241-S3
Unknown - June 29, 1936
*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, July 9, 1936
RITTER, Margaret Alice PAINTER - ANOTHER PIONEER WOMAN
OF COUNTY PASSES ON - Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Alice Ritter, aged 88, and for 60 years a resident of the vicinity in which she died, who passed away Monday afternoon, June 29th, 1936, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.A. Brown, and family, in the Evening Star neighborhood eight miles southwest of Bentonville, were held at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Elm Springs, conducted by the Rev. Irl Bridenthal of Gentry, minister of that denomination, of which Mrs. Ritter had long been a member.
Burial was in the Elm Springs cemetery with the Burns Funeral Home of Bentonville in charge of funeral arrangements.
Mrs. Ritter was born in Tennessee and was a daughter of George and Melvina Armstrong Painter. In 1876 she came with her parents and others to near Pineville, McDonald County, Missouri, about 20 miles north of this place. On June 20th, 1876, she was married to R.L. Ritter at the home of her sister, Mrs. W.B. Barnes of Elm Springs. The Ritter, Barnes and Armstrong family, as well as the Painter families coming from Tennessee to Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri. Descendents of these families are still prominent throughout this section. Mrs. Ritter's husband died at Elm Springs in 1909. Since that time she has made her home with her daughter and family.
Beside her daughter Mrs. Ritter is survived by a son, Robert L. Ritter of Salem, Oregon, and by four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Contributed on 6/11/22 by judyfrog
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