Otto Henry Saar (1863-1934)
Source: Joyce (Hansen) George
Funeral Services for Otto Saar Saturday
Otto Henry Saar was born in Mills county on Jan. 10, 1863, and passed away in a Council Bluffs hospital Nov. 21, 1934, at the age of 71 years. He was the second youngest child of Henry and Sophia Plumer Saar.
The early boyhood years were spent on the homestead six miles north of Glenwood. He attended the common schools of Mills county and also attended Shenandoah college for several terms of study.
In 1896 Otto Saar located in Keg Creek township on the old Otto Saar homestead, which he always considered his home.
While living with his parents in the Plumer settlement he united with the Lutheran church.
In the year 1888 his father, Henry F. Saar, passed to his reward, and Otto then assumed charge of the affairs of his aged mother.
He and his younger brother carried on until 1898.
Otto Saar was united in marriage with Sophia Schrodt of Council Bluffs. To them were born three children, Gertrude, Elsie and Leonard. The wife and two children preceded him in death. Mrs. Saar died Sept. 24, 1929. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Goos, at Carson; one sister, Mrs. Eliza Deekin of Seattle, and five grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends.
The funeral services were held in St. Paul's Lutheran church in Council Bluffs, Saturday, of which he was a devoted member, having left for his love and devotion for the church a beautiful memorial window in memory of he and his wife.
The body was laid to rest in the Plumer cemetery.
Otto Saar.
Otto Saar, 71, died of stomach trouble at a local hospital at 6 p.m. Wednesday following an illness of several months.
He was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran church. Born in Iowa, he had spent thirty-six years of his life in Mills and Potawattamie counties most of the time living near Treynor. For some time he had been living with his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Goos at Carson.
He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Goos; one sister, Mrs. Eliza Deetkin of Seattle, and five grandchildren.
Short funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the home of his daughter. Later services will be held at 1 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran church in Council Bluffs, Rev. Martin Mueller officiating at both services. Burial will be in the Plumer Settlement cemetery.
The funeral of Otto Saar was held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Goos, near Treynor, and at 1 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran church, Frank street and Perrin avenue.
Music at the residence was furnished by Dr. Carl A. Jesse and Mrs. Berton M. Smith and at the church by St. Paul's choir. Rev. Martin H. Mueller officiated. Pallbearers were Adolph Goos, Charles Miller, Charles Plumer, Hubert Tinley, Henry Young and Theodore Hanusa. Flower bearers were Richard and Robert Goos, Virginia, Marian and Roger Trede, Verneda and Wanda Eyberg, Lamar and Darrel Hartje and Donna and Blane Smith. Burial was in the Plumer cemetery.