PITTS, George Herold^[1]

1909 - 1978  (69 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	PITTS, George Herold
  Birth	20 Mar 1909	Keokuk, Lee, Iowa
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Dec 1978	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
  Burial	2 Jan 1979	Hamilton, Hancock, Illinois
  WAC	7 Apr 2007	SGEOR
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
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  Person ID	I38514	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	PITTS, John Morgan ,   b. 19 Aug 1881, McElroy Creek, Tyler, West Virginia, United States McElroy Creek, Tyler, West Virginia, United Statesd. Aft 1918, Prairie Township, Montgomery, Missouri, United States (Age > 38 years)
  Mother	MILLIKIN, Mary Florence ,   b. 7 Sep 1880, Elvaston, Hancock, Illinois Elvaston, Hancock, Illinoisd. 11 May 1950, Keokuk, Lee, Iowa (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	31 Jan 1906	Keokuk, Lee, Iowa
  Divorce	Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F1255	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	FIEDLER, Margaret Louise ,   b. 18 Jul 1915, Keokuk, Lee, Iowa Keokuk, Lee, Iowad. 11 Mar 2003, Lamar, Barton, Missouri (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	1930	Keokuk, Lee, Iowa
  Family ID	F14271	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  He is listed on the 1920 census of Keokuk, Lee county, Iowa as age 1, so he was born in late 1908 or early 1909. He is living with his mother and step father James S. Fluckey at 1578 Estes Street Then he is listed on the 1930 census, living at the same address and listed as age 21 working with his step father as a auto mechanic. His father was born in West Virginia and his mother is Illinois The Keokuk Daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Saturday, December 30, 1978, page 2A, column x: Harold Pitts ... G. Harold Pitts, 69, of Lawton, Mich., formerly of Keokuk, died Thursday at the Bronson Hospital at Kalamazoo, Mich. He had been ill a short time. Mr. Pitts was born March 20, 1909, in Keokuk, the son of the late John M. Pitts and Mary Millikin Pitts Fluckey. On March 23, 1946, he married Margaret Fiedler in Keokuk. He had been employed by the Beaty Machine Works in Keokuk and later farmed at Hamilton, Illinois. He retired in 1965 and moved to Michigan. Mr. Pitts was well known in the Keokuk area for his music having entertained at clubs and lodges for a number of years. He is survived by his wife, two nieces, Mrs. Willis (Dorothy Jean) Mouton of Gredley, Ill., and Mrs. Ronald (Lyle) Koehler of Steamboat Springs, Colo. Funeral service will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Schmidt-Vigen Memorial Home in Keokuk with the Rev. Terry Halstead officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery at Hamilton. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Monday. He is buried in the Don Carlos Smith Millikin family plot with his wife. Their stone has both of them on one small flat stone on the ground.

  
  

• Sources

  [S741] Law and Chancery Case No. 9165, District Court, Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, (Filed Nov 30,1910).