Fred W. ORTMEYER

ORTMEYER, MARTIN, GRIEWE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/1/2014 at 18:54:08

1888 ---- April 29, 1969

Former Pastor in Estherville Dies; Rites Set

Dr. Fred W. Ortmeyer, 80, died Tuesday afternoon at Friendship Haven Health Center in Fort Dodge. He had been living at Friendship Haven since March. Dr. Ortmeyer served the Estherville Methodist Church from 1933 to 1943 and, after his retirement at 72, served the Huntington Methodist Church. Other pastorates were at Knierim, Forest City, Emmetsburg, Clarion, Spencer, and Charles City.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the Chapel on the Hill at Friendship Haven. Dr. Clarence Thompkins, executive director of Friendship Haven, Dr. Roger Russell of Spencer, United Methodist district superintendent; and Rev. Willis McLaughlin, Friendship Haven chaplin, will officiate at the funeral. Burial will be in Ell Township cemetery at Klemme.

Dr. Ortmeyer is survived by his wife, Eleanor, a son, Homer F. Ortmeyer of San Francisco, and a daughter, Mrs. Richard Martin of Kensington, Md.; three grandchildren; three brothers, W. A. Ortmeyer of Armstrong; Edward C. of Charles City, and Henry of Livingston, Mont.

He was born and raised in Indiana and moved with his family to Charles City when he was 17 years old. He attended Cornell College at Mt. Vernon. He was married in 1914 to Eleanor Griewe at Klemme. They lived in Fort Dodge for six months before he went into the ministry. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Estherville and was a past president of the Estherville Kiwanis Club. The family requests that memorial be given to the Friendship Haven Health Center.

Estherville Daily News - Estherville, Iowa
1 May 1969