Obit: Barnovsky, Otto (1897 - 1969)

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Surnames: BARNOVSKY OUN SEPP

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook, Marshfield News Herald Collection 05/ /1969
 

Barnovsky, Otto (1897 - 1969)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hill Funeral Home in Greenwood for Otto Barnovsky, 71, Willard, a former Crystal Lake, Ill., resident, who died early Sunday morning, May 18, 1969, at the Neillsville Memorial Hospital, where he had been admitted May 11. He had been in ill health for the past month and suffered a stroke May 15.

The Rev. David Logue, pastor of the Zion United Church of Christ, will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Hill Funeral Home beginning today.

Mr. Barnovsky was born Oct. 16, 1897, in Estonia (Europe), and came to the United States in 1921, and settled in Houston, Texas. He later moved to New Mexico and was married there July 22, 1958, to Alma Our. The couple moved to Crystal Lake, Ill. in April 1966, and recently came to Willard.

Survivors include his wife, a step-son, Mike Sepp, Willard and seven grandchildren.