Wolters, Otto

Visitation - Monday, October 13, 2014 from 4 PM to 8 PM and Tuesday, October 14, 2014 from 8 AM to 9:30 AM at Hempen-Nordike Funeral Home - Aviston, IL Funeral Mass - Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 10 AM St. Francis Catholic Church - Aviston, IL Otto H. Wolters, 87, of Aviston, died Thursday, October 09, 2014 at St. Joseph Hospital in Breese. He was born October 28, 1926 in Breese, son of Bernard and Anna (Rakers) Wolters. He married Dorothy M. Moss on May 3, 1950 at St. Francis Catholic Church in Aviston and she preceded him in death on July 9, 2009. He is survived by a daughter, Patricia (Allen) Foppe of Belleville; two grandchildren, Curt (Kei) Foppe of Yuma, AZ. and Jill Foppe of Chicago.; two great-grandchildren, Luke Foppe and Hayden Foppe; sisters-in-law, Shirley Moss of Aviston, Jean Wolters of Aviston, and Helen Wolters of Breese. In addition to parents and wife he was preceded in death by brothers and sisters, Edward Wolters, Raymond Wolters, Edna Rosen, Bernard Wolters, Sally Barth, Sylvia Becker, Victor Wolters, Mary Ann Becker, and Wilbert Wolters, Henrietta Beckmann and sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Trudy Wolters, Rose Ann Wolters, Edward Beckmann, August Barth, Otto Rosen, Alvin Moss, and Arnold Moss, Ray Becker, Albert Becker. Mr. Wolters worked at Scott Air Force Base in Transporation in the Motor Pool. He was a veteran of the United States Army having served in WWII. He was a member of St. Francis Parish and the American Legion Post 1239 in Aviston. Funeral Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at St. Francis Catholic Church in Aviston with Rev. Dan Friedman officiating. Burial will follow at St. Francis Cemetery in Aviston. Friends may call from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Monday, October 13, 2014 and from 8 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at Hempen-Nordike Funeral Home in Aviston. The American Legion will visit the funeral home at 7 p.m. Monday. Memorials may be made to St. Francis Church in Aviston and will be received at the funeral home.