Champaign County OhArchives Obituaries.....Botkin, Jr, Wendell Holmes September 12, 2013
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The Urbana Daily Citizen
Wendell Holmes Botkin Jr. died in Kingwood, TX, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013.
He was born on August 20, 1922, in Springfield, OH, a son of Wendell Sr. and 
Roxie Botkin. Wendell graduated from Westville High School in 1940 and Ohio 
State University with a degree in Dairy Technology in 1945. 
He lived in the “Stadium Dorms” under the OSU football stadium and was later on 
the board of the Dormitory Alumni Society.
He married Eleanor Myler in 1945 and worked for Bordens while living in 
Springfield, OH, Fort Wayne, IN, and Indianapolis, IN, at which time, as he 
liked to put it, he and Elsie (the cow) got a divorce and he went to work 
briefly for Bessire and Co. in both Columbus, OH, and Pittsburgh, PA. He then 
worked for Sealright Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum, in Pittsburgh 
until he retired.
He and Eleanor later returned to Columbus (where they could attend the OSU 
football games!) and then finally moved to the Houston area to be closer to two 
of his children who lived there. Wendell was a Mason, a Shriner and an Elder in 
the Presbyterian Church.
Once he retired, he worked as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, was Chairman of 
the Columbus-area SCORE chapter and read for the Central Ohio Reading Service. 
In Texas, he participated in the Full Circle Literacy program, where he helped 
teach children at the Sally Ride School to read.
Wendell is survived by his loving wife, Eleanor, and his three children Alice 
Sanchez, Douglas Botkin and Betsy McKellar. He has 7 grandchildren and 13 great-
grandchildren in all parts of the country and another on the way.
A graveside service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 17, 2013, in 
Terre Haute Cemetery and he will be buried next to his mother.


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