A. E. Otis 1868-1940

OTIS, SHAFER, HOOVER, CURRY, SUMMERS, RANSOM, PORTER, OSLUND, GALBREATH

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 12/10/2012 at 21:19:29

A. E. Otis of

Afton Dies

Prominent Farmer; Rites

to be Friday

A. E. Otis, 72, prominent farmer in the Afton community, died here yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Belma Ransom, 403 N. Poplar following a four weeks' illness. He had been in failing health the past year suffering from heart trouble.

Mr. Otis was born in Oswego, N. Y., on June 30, 1868, the son of Francis and Kathryn Otis. He moved to Union county at the age of eight and at the time of his death lived on a farm three miles north of Afton.

He was an active Union county farm leader and in 1934 and 19345 servied as president of the Farm Bureau. He was a member of the Union county board of supervisors from 1926 to 1931, being chairman in 1928 and 1931 and was a member of the I.O.O.F. lodge.

Mr. Otis was married in Creston on Aug. 15, 1900, to Ada Shafer, who survives. Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Georgia Hoover of Red Oak, Mrs. Ollie Curry of Osceola, Mrs. Helen Summers of Mt. Ayr, and Mrs. Ransom of Creston; a son, Carl Otis of Afton; three sisters, Carrie Porter of Gault, Calif., Nellie Oslund of Cedar Rapids and Pearl Galbreath of Crawford, Neb., and a brother, Frank Otis of Creston. A son, Albert, preceded him in death a year ago.

Funeral services will be held at the Afton Methodist church tomorrow at 2 p.m. in charge of the Rev. Mr. Moore, and burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery there. Pallbearers will be Wesley Johnson, Walter Hammans, Langdon Wells, Emery Porter, Harley Clem, Ab McFee and Vet Brown