Submitter:  Nadine A. Hardin

Name:  Albert E. Peltz

South Bend Tribune:  November 28, 1937

Surnames mentioned:  Peltz, Bean, Swanson, Schubert, Horning,

South Bend Tribune, Sunday, November 28, 1937.

Article:  Albert E. Peltz Taken by Death:  Two Month's Illness Claim Head of Local Firm”.

Two months illness claimed the life at 6:30 p.m. Saturday of Albert Edward Peltz, aged 74, of 1806 Kessler boulevard, president of the Peltz-Kaufer Company, Inc.  He died in his residence.

Mr. Peltz was born in Chicago June 26, 1863, and came here 45 years ago from Canada.  He was married in 1881 in Walkerton, Ontario, to Alice Bean, who survives.  Mr. Peltz was first affiliated with Jacobson, Peterson, & Co., and later with the firm of Jacobson, Peterson, Peltz & Kaufer.

Surviving are his widow; four sons, G. E. Peltz, I. T. Peltz, and William Peltz, of South Bend and O. C. Peltz, of Bourbon, Ind.; three daughters, Mrs. N. T. Swanson, Mrs. Theodore Schubert and Mrs. John Horning, all of this city; 22 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren; and two brothers, William Peltz, of Detroit, Mich., and Henry Peltz, of Boston, Mass.

Mr. Peltz was a member of the Masonic fraternity, afllilated with St. Joseph Lodge, No. 45, F. & A. M. and the Scottish Rite here; with the South Bend Commandery, Knights Templar, and with the Shrine of Fort Wayne, Ind.  He was a member also of the Traveler's Protective association and the Modern Woodmen of America, and was one of the organizers of the South Bend Credit association.

The body will lie in the A. M. Russell chapel until noon Monday when it will be removed to the residence to remain until the funeral there at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Rev. Charles Tupper Raillie, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will read the rites and interment will be in Highland cemetery.  Rites at the grave will be in charge of the Masonic fraternity.