Mount Airy Industrialist Dies - Wake Forest University
Mount Airy Industrialist Dies
MOUNT AIRY - Howard Osler Woltz Sr., 76, a Mt. Airy attorney and industrialist. died at 3 p.m. yesterday at Northern Surry Hospital here.
Woltz, who founded Quality Mills, Inc., had been ill for several months. He lived at 819 Greenhill Road.
At the time of his death, Woltz was chairman of the board of Quality Mills; chairman of the Mount Airy Planning Board; a director of Hope Valley, a home for alcoholics; secretary of Exposiac Industries, Inc., and a director of Cross Creek Country Club.
He was a senior law partner in the firm of Woltz, Lewis and LaPrade. His biggest
case came when he helped to successjully defend James J. Davis, Herbert Hoover's secretary of labor, against a lottery charge.
Woltz wrote a book in 1968 entitled "Never a Dull Moment," which he described as a "report to my family" on his life and good times. He did not sell the book, he gave it to family and friends.
Woltz lived in Surry County all his life except when he left to serve in World War I and to attend Trinity College, Tulane University and Wake Forest College, where he received a law degree.
According to his book, Woltz started work at age 10 raising tobacco. When he was 14, he drove a cab.
Although Woltz was often urged to run for Congress, the only public office he held was with the planning board.
Woltz was also a farmer. And he once was served as secretary of Dixie Concrete Products, Inc., and was a director of Mabie Bell Co. and Stone Products of Freeport, Bahamas.
Survivors include bis wife, Mrs. Louise Elliott Woltz, and two sons, Howard Osler Woltz Jr., president of Exposiac Industries, Inc., and John Elliott Woltz, president of Quality Mills, Inc.They both live in Mount Airy.
The funeral will be at 4 p.m. Thursday at Central United Methodist Church, where he was a member.
H. 0. WOLTZ
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