Anna Lou & Donald Ottilie

OTTILIE, MUCKEY, SPIVAK, WALLACE, CONLEY

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Date: 11/12/2006 at 04:16:58

OTTILIE, ANNA LOU MUCKEY.
Anna Lou Muckey Ottilie (Ann), age 86, born in Villisca, Iowa on June 23, 1920, passed away on October 4, 2006. Ann was a resident of Poway for 27 years. Ann graduated from the University of Iowa in 1941. She taught high school for a year before joining the war effort as an inspector of bomb components at a plant in Burlington, Iowa for the duration of the war. In 1945, she learned that her fiance had died three years earlier in the Bataan Death March. Ann next worked in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, first in education and then as a chemist for the Quaker Oats Company. She then relocated to the Chicago area, where she worked for 20 years with Baxter-Travenol Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company, initially as a quality control chemist and later in the chemical research department. In 1976, Ann was reacquainted with a college boyfriend. They were married and lived three years in Iowa before moving together to Poway in 1979. Ann had a great passion for traveling, her pets, friends and family. She was a generous supporter of the University of Iowa. Ann was survived for 16 days by her husband, Donald Ottilie. She is also survived by her stepson, Bob Ottilie of San Diego (his wife Sharon Spivak), stepdaughter Beth Wallace of El Dorado Hills, California (her husband Jerry Wallace), and five step-grandchildren.

OTTILIE, DONALD J.
Donald J . Ottilie died at age 87 on October 20, 2006 in Poway, California from complications of a respiratory illness. Don was born in Manchester, Iowa on March 20, 1919. He received both a Bachelor's and medical degree from the University of Iowa. Don served in the United States Army from 1947 to 1949 as the Chief of Obstetrics in Fukuoka, Japan. Upon returning to the United States, Don completed a one-year family practice residency in Bakersfield, California, before returning to Iowa where he was a family doctor in the town of Oelwein from 1950 until moving to Poway in 1979. In Don's practice in Iowa, which preceded government and HMO control of medicine, he treated entire families for all their medical needs throughout their lives. While maintaining a busy clinical practice, he also delivered babies, made hospital rounds, set fractures, attended in the emergency room, assisted in surgery and made house calls. He took pride in his skill as a diagnostician and was quick to refer his patients to better facilities or specialists. Active in many community and medical affairs in Iowa and a supporter of the University of Iowa, Don was most proud of his work with the Iowa Legislature and University of Iowa in the 1970s to develop and fund a family practice residency program in his home state. Previously, medical students wanting to go into family practice in Iowa had to leave the state for a residency program. Many never returned. His efforts turned the tide in the crisis caused by the loss of family doctors in rural Iowa communities. In 1976, after a divorce from his wife of 29 years, Don married Anna Lou Muckey. They moved to Poway in 1979 where Don continued as a family doctor until his retirement in 1995 at the age of 76. Don was preceded in death by 16 days by his wife of 30 years, Anna Lou, and son Bill, who died in 1996, as well as a son in infancy. Don is survived by a brother, Bob Ottilie of Marshalltown, Iowa, son and daughter-in-law Bob Ottilie and Sharon Spivak of San Diego and their daughter Madeline, daughter and son-in-law Beth and Jerry Wallace of El Dorado Hills, California, and their sons Nick and Zack. He is also survived by son Bill's children, Chris Conley and Marty Ottilie, residents of Illinois.

-San Diego Union-Tribune on 10/30/2006