Horace Hannable Fitch, 98, of Maxwell died Sept. 21, 1998, at Gothenburg Memorial Hospital.

He was born May 31, 1900, to Jessie H. and Alice M. Phillips Fitch in Farnum.

He attended school at Dickens and then pursued Business school in Grand Island, after which he ranched five miles southeast of Dickens.

Mr. Fitch married Eldora Brink on May 1, 1925 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She preceded him in death on Nov. 6, 1981. He then married Florence Smith on March 31, 1982.

In 1976, he relocated to Maxwell after living in the Dickens area for 66 years. He was a member of the Baptist Church in Dickens. He enjoyed music and played numerous musical instruments, traveled overseas, owned and operated his own airplane, fished and hunted, and he fished in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Survivors include his wife; two step-daughters, Phyllis (Jerry) Mead of Denver and Rosalie (Alan) Frost of Colorado Springs; two step-sons, Buster (Donna) Smith of Glenwood Springs, Colo. and Roy (Conna) Smith of Denver; two sisters, Lavonne Miller of Hershey and Genieve Guenthner of Lorton, Va; three grandchildren, Sandra (Augustine) Chengsut of Portland, Or, Henry H. (Kay) Fitch of West Lynn, Or. and Terry L. (Cindi) Fitch of Maxwell; four great-grandchildren, Jason and Eric Nall and Shawn and Sarah Fitch; 3 great-great grandchildren, 15 step grandchildren, 20 step-great grandchildren and a step-great great grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his a son, Milton, his parents, a sister and two brothers.

The North Platte Telegraph, September 23, 1998