From The Florence Gause Collection       1970:

 

 Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Zion Lutheran Church, Chattanooga for Otto Bollenbacher, 81, a retired farmer of Willshire who died Thursday in Parkview Memorial Hospital, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Burial was made in the church cemetery.

 

He died of injuries suffered in a two-car accident that occurred on Sunday,  Feb. 8 when the car, driven by his wife, Margaret, in which he was riding,  collided with a car driven by Steve Weikel, 17, as the Bollenbachers were leaving the church parking lot in

 Chattanooga following the Sunday morning church services.

 

He was born in Mercer County, February 28, 1888 and moved from their farm on the State Line Road to Willshire two years ago.

 

He was married March 27, 1913 to the former Margaret Schott.

 

Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Lawrence (Arveda) Purdy of R. 1, Celina, Mrs. George (Marjorie) Eckrote of R.2, Berne, Ind.; one son, Leroy Bollenbacher of Willshire route; three half-sisters, Mrs. Edward (Hulda) Becher of Lakeville, Ind., Mrs. Emma Zehr of Harlan, Ind., and Mrs. Frieda Kriescher of Van

Wert; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.