This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ORT, WYRES Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/2106 Message Board Post: Charles A. ORT - Barnes, Wis., friends of Charles “Chuck” A. ORT, 46, Barnes, may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today at Hartzler-Guthermuth Funeral Home, where the funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday. The Rev. David Schrader of First United Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will be in the veterans section of Rice Cemetery. Mr. ORT died at 9:30 p.m. Sunday (June 19, 1994) in St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, Minn. He was born Sept. 11, 1947, in Elkhart. He married Debra L. WYRES on July 11, 1981, in Elkhart. She survives with his mother, Mary K. ORT of Elkhart, and one brother, James ORT of Montgomery, Ill. One sister Mary Kay is deceased. Mr. ORT was a 1966 graduate of Elkhart High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served as an infantry rifleman until being wounded by enemy fire in Vietnam and received a medical retirement in 1967. He earned a commercial pilot’s license in 1968 and became an Alask! an bush pilot, trapper and licensed assistant hunting guide for 16 years in McGrath, Alaska. In 1983 he graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, N.Y., and worked as a chef at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Mich.; Sohio Pipeline Base Camp in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska; and the DNR Fire Base Camp in McGrath. For the past seven years, he resided in Barnes, Wis., where he owned and operated Ort’s Howling Wolf Resort. He was a life member of the Elkhart Disabled American Veterans Chapter 19 and Veterans of Wars of Iron River. He chartered the first VFW in McGrath, and served as it first commander. He was featured in stories The Truth published in 1974 for his Alaskan trapping experiences and in 1983 for his personal memorial salute to Vietnam veterans. Memorials may be given to any veterans’ organization. source: Elkhart Truth June 1994 (submitted by a volunteer, no family connection)