OBIT: Amanda (Maust) OTTO, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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AMANDA OTTO

Grantsville, Maryland

  Mrs. Amanda Otto, aged 68, wife of D. D. Otto, died about 11 o'clock Sunday, 
Feb. 18, at her home a few miles north of here, near Springs.  She had been in 
ill health for about ten years, and had been confined to her bed since last May 
1st.  While her death was not unexpected by her family and close friends, 
nevertheless news of it came as a shock to others in this and neighboring 
communities.  Mrs. Otto was a woman of exceptional character and had the rare 
faculty of making her acquaintances her friends.  Her first interest was her 
home and family, and her next, her church.  For forty-seven years she had been a 
faithful and devout member of the Springs Mennonite Church, and even after her 
health began to fail she never missed a service if she could help it.
  Mrs. Otto has lived in this section practically all of her life.  She was born 
near Meyersdale, April 9, 1872, a daughter of Jonas and Barbara Maust, natives 
of that community.  She married D. D. Otto forty-seven years ago.  Thirty-eight 
years ago Mr. Otto started the Otto Brick Works, a few miles north of here, and 
for many years his wife worked side by side with him helping him to build the 
concern into what it is today.  Mr. Otto still continues to manage this business 
himself, although he has since taken two of his sons, Roy and Walter Otto, into 
partnership with him.
  In her passing Mrs. Otto leaves, besides her bereaved husband, one daughter 
and three sons.  They are, Miss Cora Otto, at home, who has cared for her mother 
with the utmost tenderness and devotion during her long illness, Rev. Roy Otto, 
pastor of the Springs Mennonite Church, Walter Otto and Lloyd Otto, all of the 
Springs community.  The following brothers and sisters also survive: Jonas 
Maust, Milford, Ind., Joseph Maust, Pidgeon, Mich., Louis and Joel Maust, near 
Meyersdale, Simon Maust, Springs, Mrs. Henry Yoder and Mrs. Annie Yoder, 
Wellman, Iowa, (Barbara) Mrs. Jacob Gnagey, Wauseon, Ohio, and Mary Maust, 
Meyersdale; a twin sister of the deceased.  Two sisters, Mrs. Dan Gnagey and 
Lydia Maust, and one brother, Noah Maust, have preceded her in death.
  Funeral services were conducted from her son's church at 10:30 o'clock 
Wednesday morning, Rev. Isaac Metzler, Bittinger, and Rev. Roy Kinsinger, 
Grantsville, officiated.  Interment was in the adjoining cemetery, under the 
direction of William Winterberg, local mortician.  Pallbearers were Messrs. 
Edwin Kolb, E. D. Davis, S. W. Bender, J. H. Bender, J. J. Otto and N. S. Maust.

Meyersdale Republican, February 22, 1940