Harold Ethelbert Kurtz |
| Posted 2009-05-08 by Pat Wilson |
| KURTZ Jr., Harold Ethelbert Harold Ethelbert Kurtz, Jr. Memorial Services for Harold Ethelbert Kurtz, Jr., age 79, will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 at the University Christian Church, 2720 S. University Drive in Fort Worth, Texas. Interment will be at Greenwood Memorial Cemetery, in the Garden of Love. Bert Kurtz was born September 12, 1924, in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Harold E. Kurtz, Sr. and Mary Louise Collins Kurtz. When he was five, the family moved to Ft. Worth, where he graduated from Arlington Heights High School. He attended Texas A&M and completed his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at Northwestern University's School of Dentistry in Chicago, Illinois in 1947. Following a stroke in December 2002, Dr. Kurtz made his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. He died peacefully November 8, 2003, in Scottsdale. He served in World War II and later in the Korean conflict, as a captain in the United States Air Force; he was a member of the Retired Officers Association. He practiced general dentistry in Fort Worth for over forty years and was a member of the Texas Dental Association for 50 years. He was a member of the First Christian Church where he had served as a deacon. He was a 32nd Degree Mason, a member of Fort Worth Lodge 148 and a 50-year member of the Worth Commandery No. 19, Knights Templar. He is survived by his only brother, Clyde W. Kurtz, M.D. of Greer, AZ; and in Phoenix, 3 nephews, John Andrew Kurtz, David Lawrence Kurtz, William Harold Kurtz; 2 nieces, Margaret Ann Kurtz Swanson, Mary Elizabeth Kurtz Keylon; 6 grandnephews, Austin Kipling Kurtz, David Cole Kurtz, Cameron Andrew Kurtz, Carson Ellis Kurtz, Clayton Lawrence Kurtz and Lucas Kurtz Keylon. Memorials, in lieu of flowers, may be sent to University Christian Church. Published in the Arizona Republic on 11/12/2003. |
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