OERTEL, William F. "Bill"
OERTEL, DEHN, BUESCHER, KRUSE, DEETS, LAWTON, KIMLER, FLEMING, YAGER
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/18/2013 at 15:36:42
Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
September 28, 2002Obituary - William F. "Bill" Oertel
July 29, 1917 ~ September 26, 2001MASON CITY - William F. Oertel, 84, of 352 Lakeview Dr., died Wednesday (Sept. 26, 2001) at the I.O.O.F. Home.
His memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 213 N. Pennsylvania Ave., with the Rev. Samuel Hamilton-Poore officiating. Interment will be in Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery, with flag folding presentation conducted by the Mason City Veterans Memorial Association.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave. in Mason City.
Memorials may be given to the Trinity Lutheran Church or the American Heart Association.
William F. Oertel was born July 29, 1917, in Burlington, the son of Herman and Emma (Dehn) Oertel. He was educated in the Burlington schools and graduated from Iowa State University in 1940. He was a member of the Psi Chi national honorary psychology fraternity and of Alpha Sigma Phi.
Bill married Dorothy Buescher on Aug. 4, 1940, in Burlington. They lived in Greenfield, where he taught industrial arts and coached football.
When war was declared in 1941, Bill enlisted and was sent to Chanute Field in Rantouel, Ill., where he became an instructor at the Army Air Technical Training Command. Bill served as Lieutenant Senior Grade in the U.S. Navy from December 1942-46.
In 1946 he moved to Mason City, where he purchased and operated the Nehi Royal Crown Bottling Co. In 1969 he sold the company to Mid Continent Bottlers. He entered the real estate field, working for Bill Cameron Real Estate Agency and later became an independent appraiser.
Bill was active in Boy Scouts, barbershop chorus & quartet, Ducks Unlimited and was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, where he served on various boards as well as teaching Sunday school and adult classes. He was also a member of Rotary, Lions, Mason City Country Club and was an avid fisherman and hunter.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy B. Oertel, of Mason City; two sons, William Oertel and wife, Mary Lynn, of Des Moines, and John Oertel and his wife, Mary, of Mason City; his daughter, Susan Oertel of Decorah; grandchildren, Paul Oertel, of Des Moines, Kara Kruse and her husband, Brian, of Tulsa, Okla., Julia Deets and her husband, Christopher, of Mason City, and Teresa Oertel, of Cedar Falls; great-grandchildren, Cassandra Kruse and Andrew Deets; sister-in-law, Mrs. C.C. Lawton, of Sauk City, Wis.; nieces and nephews, Mrs. Wanda Kimler, of Jacksonville, Ill., Clifford Lawton, of Lodi, Wis., Stephen Buescher ,of Colorado and Karen Fleming, of Valrico, Fla.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Edith Yager; and granddaughter, Katie Oertel.
Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, (641) 423-0924.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2013
Cerro Gordo Obituaries maintained by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
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