OTTO STAVE, 86; 8/28/10 - 6/10/97

Otto Henry Stave, 86, Blair, died Tuesday, June 10, 1997 at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair.

Services were Saturday at First Lutheran Church in Blair. Burial was in the Blair Cemetery.

Stave was born Aug. 28, 1910 in Talmage, Neb. to Henry and Anna (Rahe) Stave, the son of a minister. He was baptized in Sept. 1910 and was confirmed in 1923 in the Lutheran faith. He attended Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. He worked for the Hoover Vacuum Company in Omaha. During World War II, he worked at the Martin Bomber Plant in Baltimore. After the war, he was assistant manager for the Lutheran Publishing House of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Blair and was manager for the company later. He worked there until the American Lutheran Church merger in 1963. He then managed the Augsburg Publishing House in Omaha until retiring in 1977.

On Aug. 12, 1951, he married Lydia S. Nielsen-Hofstrom at First Lutheran Church.

He was a member of First Lutheran Church and had served as a member of the Congregational Council. He also served on the board of Good Shepherd Lutheran Home and was instrumental in planning their expansion and the building of Johansen Manor. He was a member of the Blair Rotary Club and the Blair Golf Club.

Survivors are his son and daughter-in-law, Dennis and Mary Stave of Clarksville, Tenn.; a daughter and son-in-law, Rhonda and James Smoot of Salem, Ore.; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a brother, Hubert Stave of Walker, Minn.; and a sister, Rosiland Brooks of Omaha.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Louise Seegers and his wife, Lydia, who died in 1993.

Memorials may be given to Good Shepherd Lutheran Home’s Chapel Fund.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.