Obit: Otto, Mathilda (1883 – 1967)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

Surnames: Otto, Dallman, Pieper, Luber, Litka

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 13 April 1967

Otto, Mathilda, (06 June 1883 – 07 April 1967)

Mrs. Mathilda Otto, 83, Loyal died at her home of old age complications.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 10 at Trinity Lutheran Church with the Rev. A. M. Moldenhauer officiating and burial was made in the Lutheran Cemetery. The Myre Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. John A. Olson the organist was accompanied by the congregation singing “Abide With Me” and “My Jesus As Thou Art.”

Pallbearers were Keith Luber, James Helm, James Olson, Delmar Pieper, James Lauenstein and Larry Rueth.

The former Mathilda Dallman was born June 6, 1883 in Germany. She married George Otto, March 5, 1909 in Germany. Shortly after their marriage the couple came to the United States settling in Milwaukee. Lived there until 1924 when they came to Clark County on a farm in the town of Beaver. Lived on the same farm until her death.

Mrs. Otto was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and belonged to it’s women’s society.

She is survived by one son Paul of Milwaukee; three daughters, Mrs. Arnold (Alma) Pieper and Mrs. Allen (Mavis) Luber both of Loyal; and Mrs. Orvin (LaVerna) Litka, Milwaukee; 11 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

She was preceded in death by her husband on Oct. 11, 1954.