Auglaize County, Ohio

History and Genealogy

Auglaize County Death Records

Last Name: Pothast

First Name: Edith M.

Father's Name: Bernard Dickrede

Mother's Maiden Name: Anna Mary Hoffman

Spouse's Name: Raymond J. Pothast

Death Date: April 19, 2001

Cause of Death:

Death Location: Lima, Allen County OH

Source: Celina Daily Standard

Additional: Edith M. Pothast, 87, formerly of 1011 Poppy Drive, Wapakoneta, died at 9:05 a.m. April 19 at Lima Memorial Hospital. She was born Feb. 6, 1914, in Delphos, to Bernard and Anna Mary (Hoffman) Dickrede. On June 15, 1937, she married Raymond J. Pothast, who died June 9, 1989. Survivors are two daughters, Jeanette Fortman, Northfield, and Joyce Carnes, Wapakoneta; four daughters and their husbands, Marceil and Thomas Fisher and Norma and James C. Wachauf, all of Wapakoneta, Wilma and Myron Oen, Botkins, and Karen and Larry Hall, Westchester; a son and his wife, John and Betty of Versailles; a sister and her husband, Estella and Virgil Suever, Delphos; a sister, Edna GAble, Delphos; 25 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren. Deceased are a son-in-law, William G. Fortman, two brothers, Ralph and Urban Dickrede, two sisters, Zita Hessling and Emma Fischer, and a great-grandson. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and its former Catholic Ladies of St. Joseph, Wapakoneta. She was a member of Wapakoneta Senior Citizens, Knights of Columbus Council 1272 Auxiliary, Wapakoneta. Funeral Mass is 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the church, the Rev. Peter Chiodo, C.PP.S., officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Calling is 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Monday at Long & Folk Funeral Home, Wapakoneta, with a Christian prayer service at 8 p.m. Contributions can be made to Wapakoneta Manor Activity Fund.



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