William Beuttler 1883 - 1963

BEUTTLER MERRYMAN

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Date: 6/14/2014 at 18:58:29

Sioux City Journal
2 May 1963

Architect Beuttler Rites Set

Established Firm in 41; Designed Many Structures

Funeral services for William Beuttler, 79, 3832 Sylvian way, founder of the well known Beuttler architectural firm, who died Tuesday night at a hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran church. Rev. Russell J Olson will officiate, Burial will be in Graceland park cemetery under direction of the Heaton-Westcott funeral home.

Members of Landmark lodge 103, A.F. & A.M. will conduct Masonic rites at the cemetery.

Pallbearers will be William D. Hines, John Holtze, H. S. Holtze, Jr., Stanley Johansen, Donald Waldron, and Eugene Olson.

Honorary pallbearers will be Harry S. Holtze, Sr., Mahlon Taylor, A.G. Heitman, J.T. Brown Jr., Maynard J. Smith, and Dr. F.L. Wilson.

He was employed by the Burlington railroad prior to moving to Sioux City in 1911. He established an architectural firm of Beuttler and Arnold in 1941. It was changed to William Beuttler & Son in 1958.

The Beuttler firm was widely known in the Midwest for many outstanding architectural designs of churches, schools and public buildings.

Designs of many prominent buildings in the Sioux City area were done by Mr. Beuttler. Among them are the First Methodist Church, the post office building, Y.M.C.A., Grayson's Sunrise Manor home for aged Morningside colleges Commons building, men's dormitory, library, Alee gymnasium, Jones Science hall and O'Donohue observatory, the Heelan high annex and original building, addition and alteration to the Security bank building, Sioux Parking garage, fourth floor addition to Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. building, Cathedral of Epiphany elementary school and Marian hall at Heelan.

He also was the designer of the men's dormitory at Buena Vista college, Storm Lake, Iowa, the armory and auditorium of Canton, S.D., St Paul Lutheran church, Wayne, Nebr., St Paul's Lutheran church, Auburn, Nebr. high school buildings, at Coleridge, Nebr., Dunlap, Ia., and Irwin, Ia., St John's parish convent, Bancroft, Ia. the hospital at Lake City, Ia. and Burgess Memorial hospital, Onawa, Ia.

Born September 1, 1883, at Hannibal, Mo., he attended Dixon college at Dixon, Ill. He married Vernie Merryman on September 25, 1907. He received his architectural degree in 1910 from Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

Mr. Beuttler was a member of Trinity Lutheran church. He was past master of Landmark lodge, a member and past patron of Isis chapter, Order of Eastern Star, the Sioux City Consistory, Abu Bekr Shrine, Y.M.C.A., Sioux City Boat Club, Rotary club and the Sioux City Chamber of Commerce.

Survivors include the widow, Vernie, a son, William Lee of Sioux City, associated in the business, two daughters, Mrs. W.L. (Grace) Chaussee, Sioux City, and Mrs. Tyler (Merryman)Kaune, Seattle, Wash., a sister, Mrs. Louise Cummings, Alton, Ill., six grandchildren, and one great grandchild.