LENZ, OTTO, PASSED AWAY AT THE COALDALE HEALTH CARE CENTRE NOVEMBER 20, 1992 AT THE AGE OF 68 YEARS.
OTTO WAS BORN NOVEMBER 2, 1924 IN HOHENZIETHEN, KREIS SOLDIN, GERMANY. HE WAS THE YOUNGEST CHILD OF HERMANN AND BERTA RUHL-LENZ. ON APRIL 2, 1939, HE WAS CONFIRMED INTO THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH IN HOHENZIETHEN, GERMANY. IN 1941 HE WAS CONSCRIPTED INTO THE GERMAN ARMY WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL RELEASE INTO WEST GERMANY IN 1945. IN 1946 HE LOCATED HIS MOTHER AND HIS NEPHEW WILLI LEHMANN IN EAST GERMANY AND LATER THAT SAME YEAR, UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS, HE CONVEYED THEM INTO WEST GERMANY.
OTTO IMMIGRATED TO COALDALE, ALBERTA ON APRIL 1, 1951 AND ON APRIL 15 OF THE SAME YEAR HE MARRIED AGNES SIEMENS. THEY JOINED THE COALDALE MENNONITE CONFERENCE CHURCH THAT SAME YEAR. OTTO FOUND WORK AT THE RESEARCH STATION IN LETHBRIDGE AND WAS EMPLOYED THERE FROM 1951 UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1983.
OTTO LOVED HIS FAMILY, ESPECIALLY HIS GRANDCHILDREN. HE ENJOYED PAINTING HOUSES AND GROWING FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF MRS. AGNES LENZ OF COALDALE, LOVING FATHER OF TWO SONS OTTO (CAROL) AND MARVIN (JODI), ALL OF COALDALE, A DAUGHTER ROSE (PAT) WISENER OF VULCAN, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN, DAVID, JAIME AND STEFAN LENZ, KRISTA AND NEIL WISENER, NUMEROUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS-IN-LAW, NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
OTTO WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS PARENTS, TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS IN GERMANY.
FUNERAL SERVICES TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1992 AT 2:00 P.M. AT COALDALE MENNONITE CONFERENCE CHURCH (2316-17 ST.) WITH PASTOR PETER FUNK OFFICIATING. INTERMENT TO FOLLOW AT COALDALE CEMETERY.
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