George Motz

1943 - 2014  (70 years)

• Name	George Motz
  Born	23 Nov 1943	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-220220
  Died	29 Apr 2014	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Buried	Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Person ID	I220220	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	John E. Motz,   b. 29 Mar 1909, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1975  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Mary Stoody,   b. 1912,   d. 1967  (Age 55 years)
  Family ID	F58726	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  George worked at the Record as public service director. He loved travel, conducted the Record sponsored ski trips for years and conducted his own travel agency. In a Waterloo Region Record article, Nov 7, 2020, Terry Pender wrote that John Motz came to Waterloo County in 1848 and was co-founder in 1859 of Rittinger and Motz Ltd Publishers of the German language weekly Berliner Journal and a group of other German language papers in western Ontario. The family bought many newspapers that were consolidated into what became the Waterloo Region Record. The family with Paul Motz as president of the company, sold it's 52 per-cent share in the paper to Southam in 1990 for $90 million. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218711582/george-motz

  
  

• Sources

  [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218711582/george-motz.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 23 Nov 1943 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 29 Apr 2014 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth