Western Nebraska Observer - Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

Claire C. Tritt, 94, a 70 -year resident of Kimball, died June 2, 2019 at SouthLake Village, Lincoln, NE.

Claire Constance (nee LaPlante) Tritt was born in Lawrence, MA. on August 8, 1924.  She lived and worked in Lawrence until 1946 when she took a leap of faith and married Myron V. Tritt, a returning, midwestern World War II soldier whom she met at a USO dance and corresponded with throughout the War.  Myron planned to build a family and a business in the town where he had grown up, so Claire left behind family and friends, but not her Boston accent, to make a life in a town which,...