William Ralph Nitzsche

1904 - 1963  (58 years)

• Name	William Ralph Nitzsche
  Nickname	Ralph
  Born	9 Dec 1904	Rulo, Richardson County, Nebraska
  Gender	Male
  Died	8 May 1963	Pratt, Pratt County, Kansas
  Buried	Turon Cemetery, Turon, Reno County, Kansas
  Person ID	I5486	Rossville
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	William Nitzsche
  Mother	Ina Myrtal Moore Nitzsche Diehl,   b. 1883,   d. 14 May 1961  (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F2128	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Hazel Griffiths Nitzsche Diehl,   b. 17 Jan 1908, White City, Morris County, Kansas ,   d. 20 Aug 1998, Seneca, Nemaha County, Kansas  (Age 90 years)
  Children	1. George Gaylord Nitzsche,   b. 16 Dec 1925,   d. 26 Dec 1999  (Age 74 years)   2. Doris Jean Nitzsche Stankiewitz,   b. Oct 1930
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2016 10:48:14
  Family ID	F1786	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Marie Bush Nitzsche Fearer,   b. 28 Aug 1916,   d. 31 Jan 1990  (Age 73 years)
  Married	27 Jun 1936	Kansas City
  Children	1. Dennis R Nitzsche   2. Larry E Nitzsche   3. Janice Nitzsche
  Documents		Marriage- Bush, Marie-Nitzsche, Ralph Bush-Neitzche [sic Nitzsche] Miss Marie Bush, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Bush, and Ralph Neitzche, son of Mrs. Frank Diehl, were quietly married, Saturday, in Kansas City. Mrs. Nietzche is a graduate of the Rossville grade and high school and grew to womanhood here. Mr. Neitzche has spent most of his life here and has been employed for several years by the Union Pacific. Mr. and Mrs. Neitzche will have their headquarters in Rossville until they are permanently located.
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2017 13:49:29
  Family ID	F2257	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - 8 May 1963 - Pratt, Pratt County, Kansas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents		Obituary- Nitzsche, William 1 In Memory of Ralph Nitzsche, who passed away May 8, 1963: Two years have passed since that sad day when one we loved was called away. God took him home. It was his will. Within our hearts he liveth still. Sadly missed by brothers and sisters.
  		Obituary- Nitzsche, William 2 Electrical shock kills repairman William Ralph Nitzsche 58, of Turon, Kansas, a Rock Island Railroad signal maintainer was killed Wednesday, morning when he came in contact with a 600 volt power line while working up a highline pole on the right-away near US 54 just west of Pratt, Ks. He was dead when they removed his body from the pole. A passing train crew saw him dangling by his safety belt and radioed the report in. Death was said to have occurred approximately an hour prior to this time. Just minutes after his body was placed in an ambulance, another repairman climbed the pole to finish tying off the line that Nitzsche had been working on and he, too touched the “Hot line’’ and the crew standing by had to climb the pole and bring him down. His condition is reported good in the Pratt Hospital. After investigating the accident later, they found that a tree limb had broken and fallen across the wires west of where the accident happened and this caused the wires to be “hot”. Ralph Nitzsche was born December 9, 1904 at Rulo, Nebraska. He lived in Rossville for several years before moving to Turon, Kansas 26 years ago. He worked as a signal maintainer for the Rock Island Railroad for 26 years. He was a member of the Christian Church and Masonic Lodge in Turori. At the time of his death, he had been Scout Master for the Boy Scouts, Troop No. 339 over 20 years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marie Nitzsche and two sons, Dennis R. and Larry E. all of the home; two daughters, Janice of the home, and Doris of San Pedro, Calif.; two brothers, George Diehl, 3115 Minnesota, and Earl Diehl 2540 Amhurst, both of Topeka; and three sisters; Mrs. Ina Marney of Chicago, Mrs. Alice Gentry of 1129 Webster, Topeka, and Mrs. Ruth Martinek, Rossville. Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Turon Christian Church with burial in the Turon Cemetery.

  
  

• Notes

  This one gave me a lot of trouble. I am not 100% sure I have the marriages and children correct, and I hesitated to go ahead and enter them this way, but it seems probable.