Otto Herman BUTENHOFF

BUTENHOFF, TIEWS, PEDERSON, PEHKONEN, POSSEHL, IVERSON

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Date: 3/9/2007 at 23:25:51

Barnesville Record-Review, Minnesota
August 17, 1961

Otto Butenhoff Dies Suddenly In California

Funeral services for Otto Butenhoff were held in Santa Cruz, Calif. August 5. The Rev. Cole Tyner of Bethany College officiated and Mrs. Ethel Schultz was Organist. Mr. Butenhoff died suddenly the afternoon of August 3, 1961 on the way to his doctor's office.

The son of August and Wilhelmina Tiews Butenhoff, Otto Herman Butenhoff was born near Dows, Iowa, February 13, 1887. He graduated from the Council Bluffs School for the deaf and moved to Baker with his parents in 1911. He farmed in that community until 1950, when he moved to California. He operated a chicken ranch at Lancaster for several years and then retired in Santa Cruz because of ill health.

Surviving are his widow, Fannie, one daughter, Mrs. Augustus (Marjorie) Pederson of Fargo, two granddaughters, Mrs. Robert Pehkonen of Yuma, Ariz. And Doris Pederson of Fargo, two sisters, Mrs. Henry (Rosa) Possehl of Moorhead, and Mrs. T. E. (Bertha) Iverson of Sunland, Calif.