Submitted by: Dan Rich

Milton Ross Ort

About 1905 – Feb. 1944

South Bend Tribune 6/1/1948
Memorial funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Haverstock funeral home, LaPorte, Ind., for Major Milton Ross Ort, world war II hero, formerly of South Bend.

Major Ort interned in Memorial hospital in 1939. Before his graduation from Indiana university medical school, Indianapolis, in 1938, he resided at 224 East Indiana avenue. After his internship he joined the United States army medical corps, going first to the Walter Reed hospital, Washington, D. C., where he served as a malariologist.

Also he was stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., in Central America and in the southwest Pacific.

In February, 1944, in the malaria control hospital on the island, Efate, he died, at the age of 39.

Surviving are his father, Milton F. Ort, and a sister, Miss Catherine Ort, both of Mishawaka.