Otto R. Theel 1885-1920

THEEL, COFFEE, DENLINGER, ELLIS

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Date: 4/6/2016 at 12:59:06

DUBUQUE TELEGRAPH – HERALD: Friday, January 3, 1920

OTTO R. THEEL OBEYS
DEATH SUMMONS
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Otto R. Theel was called by death Friday evening at 10:30 o’clock after illness.

Mr. Theel was born in Germany thirty-five years ago and came to this country with his parents at the age of two years. Dubuque County was his home the greater part of his life. For about six years he was a clerk in the W. E. Doft store in Zwingle but prior to his illness was employed as a woodworker. He was a member of the Third Presbyterian Church and Zwingle Camp M.W.A.

Besides his wife, who was formerly Miss Leona Denlinger of Zwingle, he is survived by three children Helen, Dorothy and Donald, his father August Theel, and three brothers, Arthur, George and Oscar, and three sisters, Mrs. Andrew Coffee and Miss Bertha of this city, and Mrs. W. P. Ellis of Maryland.

The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the residence, 742 Nineteenth Street to the Third Presbyterian Church. Interment will be in Linwood Cemetery.