Bottorff, Roy Wilson (1907-1986)

BOTTORFF, SCHAFER, CARSON, TAYLOR, JEWETT, WESTWICK

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 9/9/2015 at 11:58:20

Daily Freeman Journal, Friday, January 24, 1986

Funeral services for Roy W. Bottorff, 78, longtime Webster City area farmer, will be held 3 p.m. Saturday at the Foster Funeral home with the Rev. Edward Philgreen and Rev. Marilyn Buchanan officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery.

Mr. Bottorff died Thursday at the Hamilton County hospital where he had been a patient for one day. He had been in the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines for the past 3 1/2 weeks and had been in failing health for two years.

Roy Wilson Bottorff, son of Jacob and Eva Schafer Bottorff, was born Nov. 12, 1907 in Independence Township. He was educated in Williams, rural Webster City and Webster City schools. On Jan. 14, 1928, he married Alyce Carson at Fort Dodge. The couple farmed in Hamilton County until their retirement in 1963, at which time they moved to Webster City.

He is survived by his wife, Alyce; three sons and one daughter, Daryl of Sac City, Richard of Seattle, Don of Webster City, and Marilyn (Mrs. Thomas) Taylor of Shell Rock; 11 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; two sisters, Faye Jewett of Webster City, and Gladys Westwick, Story City.

He was preceded in death by a daughter who died in infancy, his parents, two brothers and a sister.

Mr. Bottorff attended Asbury United Methodist Church, was a former member of the Dermands Birthday Club, and was ASC chairman, committeeman, and a government corn sealer for Independence Township.