Tafiel Otto Raddatz Individual Detail
Father: Otto Albert Raddatz
Mother: Emma Ethel Ratsch
Birth: June 08, 1915 in Lodgepole, Nebraska
Census: March 21, 1920 in Chambers Precinct, Cheyenne County, Nebraska; living with family
Census: April 24, 1930 in Lorenzo Precinct, Cheyenne County, Nebraska; living with family
Education: 1933 in Lorenzo, Nebraska; Graduated from high school
Census: 1935 in Lorenzo, Cheyenne County, Nebraska
Marriage: May 25, 1939 to Irene Miller in Gurley, Nebraska at Weyerts Immanuel Lutheran Church east of Gurley. (Also identified in the family history books as being at Lodgepole, Nebraska)
Census: April 19, 1940 in Lorenzo, Cheyenne County, Nebraska; farmer, listed as Otto, Jr.
Residence: 1942 in Peetz, Colorado; Moved to a farm 2 miles north of Peetz which placed them on the Nebraska side of the NE/CO state line
Anecdote: Between 1942 & 1972; active in Peetz community - Elks, Lions, Telephone Co. Served as President of the Peetz Telephone Co. 16 years
Marriage: Sep 30, 1972 to Mary Elizabeth Johnson in Sidney, Nebraska
Occupation: 1980 - Retired from farming; sold farm machinery and equipment
Residence: 1991 - Moved to Ft. Collins, Colorado
Residence: September 2001 - In Ft. Collins, Colorado
Residence: July 2007 - In Sidney, Nebraska; After Mary's death, moved to Sloan Estates
Health: March 2008 - In Sidney, Nebraska; Heart attack
Residence: July 26, 2008 - In Sidney, Nebraska; living in Sloan Estates
Death: February 19, 2009 - In Sidney, Nebraska; Heart attack at home at Sloan Estates
Funeral: February 26, 2009 -
Sidney, Nebraska at the Lutheran Church, 2 p.m.
Burial: February 26, 2009 - Sidney, Nebraska; Buried
in Greenwood Cemetery
Sources
1920 Federal Census, Otto Raddatz household, Chambers Precinct, Cheyenne County, Nebraska, March 21, 1920 at ancestry.com.
1930 Federal Census, Otto A. Raddatz residence, April 24, 1930, Lorenzo, Nebraska at ancestry.com
1940 Federal Census, Otto Raddatz, Jr. household, Lorenzo, Cheyenne County, Nebraska, April 19, 1940 at ancestry.com
Anderson, Betty Hoven, conversation with Mardi Anderson, September 2001, Sidney, Nebraska
Anderson, Betty Hovan, conversation during Mardi & Ed's visit, July 25, 2008, Sidney, Nebraska
Bennett, Maurine Eldred, North Platte, Nebraska, phone call to Mardi Anderson, April 10, 2008
Namuth, Jeanette & Mary Morgan, Raddatz Family History, 1982 with updates
Morgan, Mary & Melanie, Raddatz Family History, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, self published
Raddatz, Tafiel Otto, Sidney Sun Telegraph, "Obituaries: Otto Raddatz", February 23, 2009, Sidney, Nebraska
Raddatz, Tafiel Otto's death, phone calls from Mary Morgan & Betty Hoven,
February 21, 2009