- Date Of Birth: December 13, 1919
- Date Of Death: November 24, 2012
- State: Montana
Blanche (Riplett) Rutz, 92, of Great Falls, died of natural causes November 24, 2012 at a local healthcare facility.
Blanche was born December 13, 1919 in Wyola, Montana. She married Ruben Rutz on September 5, 1942 in Long Beach, California. She worked as a librarian in Hardin and as a bookkeeper in Great Falls.
She is survived by her brother Kenneth Riplett of Hyde Park, New York; her two daughters Linda R. (Randy) Hickman, of Salt Lake City, Utah and Christine (Patrick) Gordon, of Great Falls; and her grandson Travis Hickman, of Salt Lake City.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her brothers Richard, Clyde and Howard; her sisters Esther and Bessie.