Obituary - William Horton Kutch

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Service for Horton Kutch Held Friday

The Wellington Leader - Funeral services for Horton Kutch, 79-year old county pioneer, were conducted at 11:00 a.m. Friday, October 17, in first Baptist Church. The Rev. Roy Collins officiated and burial was in Memorial Gardens.

Pall bearers were Tom Birchfield, Walter Camp, Dennis Holland, Tommy Lewis, Joe Tarver, Bob Hightower, Kenneth Hudson and Carthel Lewis.

A retired farmer who had lived almost his entire life in Collingsworth County, Mr. Kutch died at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 14.
His father, the late D. L. Kutch, was one of the earliest settlers in the Southeast Panhandle, coming in 1885, before the organization of the county. Both his father and father-in-law, Mr. Kelley, who also lived here prior to 1890, were among those who worked for the county's organization.

Horton Kutch was born January 29, 1896 at Archer City, as his parents, still Collingsworth County residents, were en route to Jacksboro to visit relatives.

Mr. Kutch grew up in the Kelley community and attended school there, in Wellington and also Jacksoboro. Years later he was to serve as a trustee of the Kelley school.

After a number of years, both the Kutch and Kelley families moved to Wheeler County, and it was while they were living there that he and Miss Della Kelley were married. At that time the couple returned to the Kelley Community to farm.

He moved into Wellington after he retired from farming a few years ago.
Survivors are four sons, Clay Kutch of Saratoga, Calif., Don Kutch of Fayetteville, North Carolina, Thomas Kutch of Rule, and Hugh Kutch of Simi Valley, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Marion Vinson of El Paso, Mrs. Truett Holland and Mrs. Carl Schumate of Wellington; six sisters: Miss Ethel Kutch of Glendale, Calif., Mrs. Claude Cox of Wheeler, Mrs. Ray Sudano of Burbank, Calif., Mrs. Cecil Poe of Sweet Home, Oregon, Mrs. Inez Iuliano and Mrs. J. C. Hilton of West Point Calif.; 13 grandchildren and one great great grandson.