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- [S888] Social Security Death Index 1935 - Current, (www.ancestry.com).
Name: Paul Dietz
Last Residence: 43756 Mc Connelsville, Morgan, Ohio
Born: 27 Apr 1913
Died: 10 Oct 2009
State (Year) SSN issued: Ohio (Before 1951)
- [S927] Obituary.
McCONNELSVILLE - Paul C. Dietz, 96, of Oakwood Drive in McConnelsville died Saturday (Oct. 10, 2009) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Zanesville.
He was born April 27, 1913, in Marietta, son of John and Carolyn Anna Cisler Dietz. He had sold life insurance for many years and had owned the Dietz Insurance Agency in Beverly for many years. He was vice president of Summit Acres Nursing Home in Caldwell. He graduated from Marietta High School. He was a member of the Beverly Presbyterian Church; 50-year member of Mount Moriah Lodge 37, F&AM; Marietta Shrine Club and Morgan Shrine Club; Scottish Rite Valley of Cambridge; and the Ohio Gun Collectors. He had been president of the Lions Club and a member of the National Railroad Historical Society. He was instrumental in the development of the Oliver Tucker Museum and was a member of the Lower Muskingum Historical Society. He developed Dietz Shopping Center in Beverly, one of the first in the area. He was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed gardening, grafting trees, playing horseshoes and checkers, and making knives. He also loved playing the piano.
He was first married to Carolyn Kilmer Dietz on Sept. 1, 1937. She died on Jan. 1, 1983. He then married Nora Gates Dietz on Dec. 25, 1983. He is survived by his wife, Nora; four stepchildren, Willard Gates and friend, Dana, of Indianapolis, Linda Mosier and friend, Mark Weaver, of McConnelsville, Robert Gates and wife, Esther, of McConnelsville and Diana Fritz and husband, Dr. Walter Fritz, of Knox, Ind.; three grandchildren, Dana Dietz and wife, Tami, of Beverly, Hope Schott and husband, Brad, of Beverly and Holly Eschmeyer and husband, Tony, of Devola; daughter-in-law, Monica Dietz of Beverly; seven great-grandchildren, nine stepgrandchildren and several stepgreat-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Carolyn; his parents; a son, Paul N. "Noble" Dietz; brother, John Thomas Dietz; and an infant sister, Linda Dietz.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at McCurdy Funeral Home in Beverly with the Rev. Tom O'Connor officiating. Burial will be in Beverly Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday with a Masonic service to be held at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Donations may be made to the Beverly Volunteer Fire Department or the M&M Fire Department.
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