Osterman, Gus 1887-1961

OSTERMAN, OSTERMANN, BREMER, MUELLER, ALLMAN, DRUNAGEL

Posted By: Jeff Jahn (email)
Date: 1/12/2006 at 14:24:29

GUS OSTERMAN FATALLY INJURED IN FARM ACCIDENT

Rites Held Monday In Lutheran Church Horton Township

Funeral services were held Monday at 2 p.m. in Zion Lutheran Church, Horton Township, for Gus Osterman, 74-year old Ocheyedan road contractor and farmer fatally injured in a farm accident Thursday.

The Rev. A.R. Allman officiated. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Mr. Osterman was born Aug. 26, 1887, at Maurice, Iowa, the son of Henry and Doris Mueller Osterman moving to Horton Township at the age of 16 years and since making his home here.

He and Redina Bremer were married Jan. 29, 1913, living on the farm just south of the church, which is still their home. For more than 30 years he operated a threshing machine ring.

In 1914, he started road grading, soon was in the road construction business. In 1942 and 1943, he was in Alaska, helping build the Alcan Highway.

He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church and was active on the building committee for the building of an educational unit of the church.

Active in farming and road construction until his death at the Spirit Lake Hospital.

Besides his wife, he is survived by three sons, Hans, Reuben and Daniel of Ocheyedan, and eight grandchildren.

He is also survived by four brothers, Adolph, Lucas, Kans.; Will, Ocheyedan; John; Sylvan Grove, Kans., and Alfred, Worthington, and one sister, Mrs. Frank Drunagel, Pittsburg, Kans.
(Death date: 28-Sept-1961)