Grain merchant.
Born at Hamburg, Ontario on 13 May 1867, brother of Henry Ritz, he came to Manitoba in 1885 and settled at Gretna where he was a general merchant. He moved to Humboldt, Saskatchewan in 1904 then to Winnipeg in 1915 where he worked in the grain industry, including a directorship in the McGaw-Dwyer Elevator Company, until retirement in 1930. He and wife Emma Walker Dawes (1882-1972) had two daughters: Lorene Frances Ritz (1907-1990, wife of David Milliken) and Olga Helen Ritz (1913-2012, wife of Fred Dennison Riley). He was a member of the Masons (Gretna Lodge) and the Wa-Wa Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He died at his Winnipeg home, 353 Oakwood Avenue, on 22 September 1933 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Birth registration [Olga Helen Ritz], Saskatchewan Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Lavene Frances Ritz, David Milliken], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Otto Ritz], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Otto Ritz, here for 48 years, passes at 67,” Winnipeg Tribune, 23 September 1933, page 15.
Obituary [Emma Walker Ritz], Winnipeg Free Press, 22 April 1972, page 39.
Obituary [Lorene Frances Milliken], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 April 1990, page 40.
Obituary [Helen Olga Riley], Castanet.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 January 2024
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