Submitted by: Dan Rich
May 15, 1905 – Dec. 26, 1987
South Bend Tribune 12/27/1987
MISHAWAKA – Services for Otto A.
Kuhn, 84, of 513 W. Jefferson Blvd., who died at about 9:30
p.m. Monday in St. Joseph Hospital, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at
St. Monica’s Catholic Church. Burial will be in St. Joseph
Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday
at Bubb Funeral Chapel North, where a parish rosary will be said
at 3:30 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the American
Lung Association.
Mr. Kuhn retired in 1970 from Midland
Engineering Co. He was born May 15, 1905 in Mishawaka and was a
lifelong area resident. On June 9, 1926, in Mishawaka, he married
Alta “Toni” Cook, who survives, along with a
daughter, Helen M. Heiser of Mishawaka; four
grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and a sister Helen Johnson
of Elkhart.
He was a charter member of the Church and
served on the Usher Board, member of Knights of Columbus Lodge
553 and was founder of their blood donor program, past navigator
of Father Nieuwland Assembly Fourth Degree, and a member of
Nocturnal Adoration Society of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
in South Bend, the Catholic Order of Foresters and Sheet Metal
Workers International Association.