Otto Paul Henry BONIN

BONIN, MITCHELL, JOHNSON, BARZ, WHIPPLE, KREITLOW, LANE, PACK, SHARP, SHANE, ROBERTS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/6/2008 at 10:31:25

12/02/2008
Belmond Independent, Iowa

Otto P. "Benny" Bonin, 87, Dows, died November 26, 2008 at Wright Medical Center in Clarion. Services were held December 1 at First Lutheran Church in Dows with Pastor Robert Edwards officiating. Burial was at the Colo cemetery with military rites by the American Legion Post of Colo.

Otto Paul Henry was born May 14, 1921 on a farm near Buckeye to Max and Edith (Mitchell) Bonin. He attended school in the Iowa Falls area. On November 2, 1940 Otto and Ida Johnson were married in Burt, and they had nine children. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on September 18, 1943 and served in the Pacific Theater during WW II. Otto was a laborer who retired in 1986 and moved from Colo to Dows. In 1996 Ida passed away. He married Beverly Barz on July 25, 1998 in Dows.
Otto enjoyed fishing, dancing, woodworking, playing cards (especially Pepper), and watching old westerns and war movies on video.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers Herman, Max and Hugo; sister Viola Whipple; wife Ida; son Daniel; and daughters Linda, MaDonna and Pauline. Otto is survived by his wife Beverly; children Judy Kreitlow of Kirbyville, MO, Patricia (Donald) Lane of Dows, David (Joy) Bonin of Belmond, LouAnn (Leroy) Sharp of Cushing, OK and Shirley (Charles) Pack of Des Moines; sisters Louise Roberts of Iowa Falls and Ethel Shane of Sioux Falls; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.