The Funeral Service for Dorothy Otto, of ThorneCrest Retirement
Community,
Albert Lea
, formerly of
St. Paul
,
MN
, will be held at 11:00
A.M. on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at Bonnerup Funeral Service,
2210
East Main
, Albert Lea.
Father James Berning will officiate.
Friends may visit with family one hour before services at the funeral home.
Military Honors will be accorded by
Albert Lea
Veteran’s
Organizations.
Interment will at
Olean
Mound
Cemetery
in
Buffalo
Center
,
Iowa
with her parents and sister.
Dorothy was born February 17, 1918, in
Buffalo Center
,
Iowa
to Ernest and Hilma (Swanson) Otto.
The family moved to
Freeborn, MN, where she went to school through the 4
th
grade.
The family then
moved to
Geneva
, MN were she attended school through the 11
th
grade and she
graduated from
Albert Lea
High School
in 1936.
Dorothy then attended one
year at
Dana
College
in
Blair
,
NE
and then graduated from
Bartron
Hospital
School
of
Nursing
at
Watertown
,
SD
in 1942.
She enlisted in the
United States Army Nurse Corp, serving overseas in the
Philippines
and
Japan with the rank of 2
nd
Lieutenant.
She took her training at
Camp Carson
,
CO
and
Fitzsimmons
General
Hospital
in
Denver
,
CO
.
After her discharge she attended the
University
of
MN
getting a
Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Health Nursing.
She made her
Home in
St. Paul
,
MN
where she worked two years in Family Nursing
Service and then went to work as a Public Health Nurse for the
St. Paul
Health
Center
for 31 years, retiring in 1981.
She had been a member of
St. Olaf Catholic Church in
Minneapolis
. Dorothy enjoyed going to estate sales and
collecting antiques.
She went on several cruises and traveled the
United States
and
abroad. Dorothy moved to ThorneCrest in
Albert Lea
in September of 2006.
Her brother Kenneth Otto of
Austin
,
MN
and nieces, Pamela Apold,
Darlyne Paulson, Sandra Glenn and nephews Paul and Larry Otto and
their families survive Dorothy. Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents Ernest and
Hilma Otto,
brother Lester Otto, sister’s Vera and Bernadean and nephew Dale Otto.
