Pottebaum, Bernard F. 1920-2001

POTTEBAUM, MOUSEL, MAYROSE

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 8/28/2008 at 19:12:31

REMSEN, Iowa -- Bernard F. Pottebaum, 81, of Remsen died Sunday, Dec. 30, 2001, at Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars, Iowa, following a brief illness.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Remsen, with the Rev. Thomas J. Hart officiating. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. Tuesday, with a parish rosary at 3 p.m., a vigil prayer service at 7:30 p.m. and a Knights of Columbus rosary at 8 p.m, all at Fisch Funeral Home in Remsen.

Mr. Pottebaum was born Nov. 1, 1920, in rural Alton, Iowa, the son of John M. and Susan (Mousel) Pottebaum. He was raised in the Alton area and graduated from St. Mary's Academy in Alton in 1939. He assisted his parents in farming. On June 13, 1946, he married Esther Mayrose in Alton. They made their home near Alton, where he was a farm laborer. In 1947 they moved south of Oyens, Iowa, where they farmed until 1963, when they purchased and moved to their own farm southeast of Remsen. Mr. Pottebaum retired in November 1982 due to health reasons. The couple moved into Remsen in November 1991.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus for more than 50 years, and the Oyens Columbus Club.

Survivors include, his wife, Esther of Remsen; a son and his wife, Wayne and Maureen Pottebaum of Remsen; three daughters and their husbands, Karen and Gary Konz of Le Mars, Jean and Kenneth Ehrp of Sioux Center, Iowa, and Sharon and Jim Tentinger of Remsen; 14 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; four sisters, Mildred and her husband, Louis DeLateur of Sunnyvale, Calif., Mrs. Adrian (Irma) Dreckman of Luverne, Minn., and Mrs. Gerald (Armella) Homan and Carol Jean and her husband Daniel Pick, all of Remsen; and three sisters-in-law, Mrs. John Jr. (Ginny) Pottebaum of Bartlesville, Okla., Mrs. Ferd (Florence) Pottebaum and Mrs. Cecil (Maxine) Pottebaum, both of Alton.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter, Mary Catherine in infancy; four brothers, John, Ferd, Richard and Cecil; and a sister, Mrs. Bernard (Marcene) Cole.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal, Dec. 31, 2001--part of the D. Easton Obituary Collection