Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

SBT 12/27/1974

Otto H. Priebe

August 30, 1894 – December 25, 1974

Otto H. Priebe, 80, of the Cardinal Nursing Home, died at 12:15pm Wednesday in the nursing home after an extended illness.  Priebe was a retired O’Brien Paint Co employee.

Born August 30, 1894, in St Joseph MI, he had lived here 70 years.  In 1955, in Quincy MI, he married Pauline Mann, who died in 1961.  Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Nadine Preger of South Bend and Mrs. Marilyn Ineson of Chesterfield; a son, Harry J. of South Bend; eight grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Ella Wolf of South Bend, and two brothers, Herman and Leo, both of South Bend.

Services will be at 10-:30am Saturday in the Orvis-Palmer Funeral Home, 336 N. Main.  Rev. Charles Felton, pastor of the St Paul’s Lutheran Church, will officiate.  Burial will be in the Chapel Hill Memorial Garden.  Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm today in the funeral home.