Ada Latta RUTTER

Oklahoma Hornet Waukomis Garfield Co., OK

Thursday 12-20-1928

Submitted by: Kit-Bacon Gressitt

© Glenn

PIONEER PASSES AWAY

Mrs. John A. Rutter, Early Day Resident Here, Dies

We mark the passing of another pioneer in the death of Mrs. John A. Rutter, on Monday Dec. 17, 1928. As a young woman, Mrs. Rutter, then Ada Latta, came from Western Kentucky to Western Kansas. At the opening of the Cherokee Strip she made the run and staked a clain two miles East of Waukomis. Six months later she was married to John A. Rutter, who served as Waukomis' postmaster.

Some 20 years later the family removed to Cuba, later coming back to the states to locate in Tampa, Florida where Mr. Latta died. Since that time Mrs. Rutters has been an invalid and death came as a blessed relief.

Mrs. Rutter was the eldest daughter of B. F. and Martha Ann Latta in a family of seven children. She is survived by three children, Maud, Mrs. J. Walter Gressitt, of Baltimore, Md.; Elery of Havana, Cuba; Captola, a senior at Baylor Medical School at Dallas, Tex.; two children preceded her in death, Vivian, the eldest child who died in early childhood, and Mattie who died four years ago at the age of 24.

Two sisters, Mrs. T. B. Johnson of Pulaski, Va.; and Mrs. A. L. Argo of Minneapolis, Minn. and an older half sister, Mrs. J. A. Dotson of Waukomis, Okla. survive Mrs. Rutter.

Until her health failed Mrs. Rutter's life was a beautiful example of unselfish devotion to loved ones.

Interment was made in the Waukomis Cemetery Tuesday afternoon Dec. 18, 1928.