BUCH, Otto P.

BUCH, WESTPHAL, HASSELQUIST, DICKERSBACH, JONES, WATSON, RUGH, BRANDT

Posted By: Darlene Jacoby (email)
Date: 8/29/2004 at 00:03:27

The Opinion Tribune
Otto P. Buch, 84, Morrison, Tennessee.
Otto Paul Buch, 84, of Morrison, Tennessee, died on December 21, 2002, at the United Regional Medical Center in Manchester, Tennessee. Funeral services were held December 30, 2002 at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Glenwood. Pastor Charles Ramsey officiated at the service. Interment was at the Glenwood Cemetery.

Mr. Buch was the son of Henry Herman and Augusta (Westphal) Buch, born March 13, 1918, on his parent's farm in the East Liberty neighborhood north of Malvern. He attended Hillsdale School and graduated from the Glenwood High School in 1936. He helped with the family farm until 1941 when he attended sheet metal school in Omaha, Nebraska. In late summer of 1941 he went to work at an aircraft factory in California. He returned home in 1942 to help with the family farm until March, when he was inducted into the U.S. Army. He attended Officer Candidate School, graduating as a Second Lieutenant. He married Hazel Lillian Hasselquist of Malvern in Omaha on April 22, 1943. Their marriage was blessed with two daughters. Still in the Army, Mr. Buch was stationed at Okinawa and later in Japan. Following his discharge, he returned to Mills County, settling in Silver City where he operated a service station. In 1955 the family moved to Oregon and later to California, Minnesota and Tampa, Florida, where he owned two laundry facilities. Mr. and Mrs. Buch moved to Morrison, Tennessee in 1976, and Mr. Buch worked as a heating and air-conditioning technician.

Mr. Buch was preceded in death by his parents; wife Hazel; sister Helen Dickersbach; and brother Carl Buch. He is survived by daughters Cheryl Jones and husband Skip of Manassas, Virginia, and Diane Watson and husband Rick of Wartrace, Tennessee; granddaughter Samantha Rugh of Kissimmee, Florida, brothers Julius Buch of Glenwood and Ernest Buch of Edmond, Oklahoma; sister Dorothy Brandt of Council Bluffs; sister-in-law Dorothy Buch of Glenwood; nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends.

Mansfield-Hertz Funeral Home in Malvern was in charge of arrangements.