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• Name: Ottie

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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 6, Ed. 1, Tree #3710, Date of Import: Jan 30, 2001]

Ottie was a WW1 veteran. Buried at The Rock Island Arsenal Cemetary (Ilinois). He recalled that when he was a mule team handler in France,
he had a mule killed right next to him but he wasn't hurt.
Fay Ernest Schlotfeldt recalls that when Uncle Ottie took him up in
the loft of the barn in Gambrel, he had tobacco leaves drying up there.
Fay was very small and the ladder was vertical. He needed a little
encouragement from Ottie to get there. Boy, were his mom, Selma,
Aunt Dayle and Grandma Alvina unhappy with Ottie. Ottie gave Fay his
Gas Mask and helmut from the war. Fay later gave the Gas Mask to
the Marine Corps Museum in Washington.

Ottie loved to fish and hunt. He was a really friendly guy and
spent a lot of time with his boat around McCausland and Fairyland Park
on the Wapsipinnicon (Wapsi) River. He was a carpenter.