Otto Bartels

March 13, 1903-Feb. 2, 2005

WAUNETA -- Otto Carl Dietirch Heinrich Bartels, 101, died Wednesday (Feb. 2, 2005) at Heritage of Wauneta Nursing Home.

He was born March 13, 1903, to Carl and Dorothea M. (Fortkamp) Bartels on a farm near Elk Creek. He moved with his parents and four siblings to a farm south of Enders. He attended school at Elk Creek, the Ough Divide and St. Paul's Parochial School.

In 1936 , he married Ida Helen Damrow. The couple made their home on a farm south of Enders. This union was blessed with six children. He farmed for many years, first with his brother and then independently. The couple moved into Wauneta in 1964.

He was a member of the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Wauneta.

He was preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Betty Morgan; grandchildren, Guy Morgan, Kim Cooper, Ricky Dunham and Sarah Bartels; and siblings, Arnold, Frieda Crossen, Reinhold, Alfred, Walter and Reuben.

Survivors include his wife, Ida of Wauneta; sons, Wayne and wife, Donna of Wauneta, Dale and wife, Barbara of Lewellen and Allen and wife, Joyce of Harvard; two daughters, Barbara Cooper and husband, Jerry of Henderson, Nev., and Lois Glover and husband, Lee of Wauneta; sister, Elsie Becker of Wauneta; brother, Gustav Bartels and wife, Margie of Wauneta; 14 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren.

Services were today, 10 a.m. (MST), at Redeemer Lutheran Church of Wauneta with the Rev. Greg Stuckwisch officiating. Interment was in Riverside Cemetery in Wauneta.

A memorial has been established in his name.

Liewer Funeral Home of Wauneta is in charge of the arrangements.