Tott, John "Jack" 1891-1938

TOTT, BENDER, VANDENHULL, KWIKKEL

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-volunteer
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:35

Source: Boyden Reporter (7-14-1938)

Born: February 12, 1891
Died: July 11, 1938

JOHN TOTT DIES AT ORANGE CITY

John Tott of Boyden, aged 47 years, died in an Orange City Hospital at noon on Monday, July 11, 1938, following an operation on Thursday. Funeral services was held at the home of Mrs. John Vander Maaten on Wednesday afternoon, at 1:30 o’clock, and at the United Presbyterian Church ay 2:00 o’clock. The local Legion Post had charge of the services at the Boyden Cemetery.

He leaves to mourn his death his wife, a son Carl Tott, age 12; one brother, George Tott of Sibley; and four sisters, Mrs. Bertha Vander Maaten, Mrs. Anna Auberg, Mrs. Mina Vos, of Boyden, and Margaret Hanson of Heron Lake, Minnesota.

He was born on February 12, 1891, a son of Carl and Johanna (Van Den Hull) Tott of Boyden. His mother died when he was 15 years old and his father died four years ago. John married Nellie Kwikkel on January 10, 1918 in Rock Rapids, Iowa. They divorced. He was married to Glayds Mae Bender of Cherokee, Kansas, on May 21, 1921.

John Tott, familiarly known as “Jack Tott” was a son of the Carl Tott, who was Boyden’s pioneer garage man.

Jack enlisted in Company E. 2d Regiment Iowa National Guard on July 9, 1915 and was honorably discharged, July 8, 1918. During this enlistment, he served on the Mexican border for 11 months under Col. Geiger of Sheldon, Iowa.

Then on July 26, 1918, now twenty years ago, he was called into the service during the World War and at the end of the war, received his second discharge papers on demobilization on December 30, 1918.

He was employed as an expert auto mechanic in the Buick and Cadillac factories, and later worked the Buick Garage in Pittsburg, Kansas.

For some time he conducted a garage in Boyden, but serious stomach illness bothered him, so that at present he could do practically no work of any kind.

He lived with his wife and son in an apartment above the former Vanden Bosch Furniture Store.