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Otho Kenneth Keraus

1914 - 1962

Otho K. Keraus Dies Suddenly Tuesday

Last Rites Friday At The Methodist Church

Otho K. Keraus, age forty-eight, of Hampton, passed away very suddenly at his home early Tuesday morning of a heart attack.  Mr. Keraus was foreman at the Purcell Printing Company in Hampton.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon, Friday, at 2:00 o'clock at the Methodist church in Hampton, with the Rev. Wayne E. Shoemaker officiating.  Interment will be made in the Hampton cemetery.  The Green & Sietsema funeral home is in charge of arrangements.

Otho Kenneth Keraus was born March 14, 1914, at Klemme, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Keraus.  He graduated from the Klemme high school and after graduation was employed at the Herald newspaper in Swea City until he entered the U. S. Army during World War II.  He served with the second Armored Division in Africa and Italy.

After World War II he was employed as foreman for the Mitchell County Press and News.  On August 31, 1947, he was united in marriage to Miss Rosemary Dow of Sheffield, and to this union two children were born.  They made their home in Osage until 1953 when he became a partner in the Tribune-Herald newspaper at Chisholm, Minnesota.  In June 1957 the family moved to Hampton when he became foreman at the Purcell Printing Company.

He was a member of the Methodist church, the Masonic lodge and Eastern Star.

Mr. Keraus is survived by his wife, his daughter, Deborah, age twelve, and his son, John, age nine; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Keraus of Klemme, and a brother Verle Keraus of Garner.

source: Hampton Chronicle, 3 May 1962, page 5