Dorothy Otto

Published 12:00 am Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Funeral Service for Dorothy Otto, of ThorneCrest Retirement Community, Albert Lea, formerly of St. Paul, will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday at Bonnerup Funeral Service, 2210 East Main, Albert Lea. The Rev. 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 Organization. Interment will at Olean Mound Cemetery in Buffalo Center, Iowa, with her parents and sister.
Dorothy was born Feb. 17, 1918, in Buffalo Center to Ernest and Hilma (Swanson) Otto. The family moved to Freeborn, where she went to school through the fourth grade. The family then moved to Geneva were she attended school through the 11th grade and she graduated from Albert Lea High School in 1936. Dorothy then attended one year at Dana College in Blair, Neb., and then graduated from Bartron Hospital School of Nursing at Watertown, S.D. in 1942. She enlisted in the United States Army Nurse Corp, serving overseas in the Philippines and Japan with the rank of 2nd Lt. She took her training at Camp Carson, Colo. and Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver, Colo. After her discharge she attended the University of Minnesota getting a
Bachelor of Science degree in public health nursing. She made her home in St. Paul, 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, 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.