Anna Lou (Muckey) OTTILIE

MUCKEY, OTTILIE, SPIVAK, WALLACE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:44

Anna Lou Muckey Ottilie
16 June 1920 ---- 4 October 2006

Anna Lou Muckey Ottilie (Ann), age 86, born in Villisca, Iowa on June 23, [June 16] 1920, passed away on October 4, 2006. Ann was a resident of Poway for 27 years. Ann graduated from the University of Iowa in 1941. She taught high school for a year before joining the war effort as an inspector of bomb components at a plant in Burlington, Iowa for the duration of the war. In 1945, she learned that her fiancee had died three years earlier in the Bataan Death March. Ann next worked in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, first in education and then as a chemist for the Quaker Oats Company. She then relocated to the Chicago area, where she worked for 20 years with Baxter-Travenol Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company, initially as a quality control chemist and later in the chemical research department.

In 1976, Ann was reacquainted with a college boyfriend. They were married and lived three years in Iowa before moving together to Poway in 1979. Ann had a great passion for traveling, her pets, friends and family. She was a generous supporter of the University of Iowa.

Ann was survived for 16 days by her husband, Donald Ottilie. She is also survived by her stepson, Bob Ottilie of San Diego (his wife Sharon Spivak), stepdaughter Beth Wallace of El Dorado Hills, California (her husband Jerry Wallace), and five step-grandchildren.

San Diego Union-Tribune --- San Diego, California
October 30, 2006

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[interred in Glenwood Cemetery, Goldfield, Wright County, Iowa]