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Shelby County Democrat
Friday, March 1 1940

RICH

William Rich, 72, former Shelby county farmer, died Saturday night at 9:45 o'clock in the Piqua Memorial hospital following surgery to which he had submitted Saturday morning.

All excepting the past few years of his life had been spent in Shelby Couty where he had followed the vocation of farming.  He moved to Piqua last December.

Surviving William Rich with his widow, Mrs. Julia Catherine Millhoff Rich, are three sons and one daughter, who are Thurman Rich, of Dayton; Albert and Wallace Rich, of Piqua; Mrs. Bessie Bodey, of Piqua.  Fourteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren also mourn his passing with the following sisters and brothers:  Harley Rich and Grover Rich, of Sidney; Bud Rich, of Piqua, and Mrs. Etta Marott, of Columbus.

Funeral services were held on from the Stuber funeral home in Fletcher.  Internment was made in Graceland cemetery in Sidney.

Submitted by Karen Kuntz Williams
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