![]() ![]() Also surviving are grandchildren Rebecca (Blaise) Kragt Caleb (Allie) Kragt Benjamin Kragt and Abigail (Truman) Finnell and great-grandchildren Reuben and Lydia Kragt.įuneral services will be held at Temple Hill Baptist Church on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. Otto and Martha are also survived by their three children: son Otto Steven Kalmbach, daughter Anna (Daniel) Kragt, and daughter Sara Kalmbach. He is survived by his brother John Kalmbach and sister Elizabeth Lyon. Otto was preceded in death by his parents, his stepfather, his wife Martha, his brother-in-law Richard Lyon, and his sister-in-law Virginia Kalmbach. He published a book about angels and wrote several booklets on various Bible topics. His favorite Biblical books to teach were Genesis and Isaiah. Through the years of teaching adults, he taught most of the Bible. ![]() He taught Sunday School for many years, beginning with children and youth, and then adults. Otto was active at Temple Hill Baptist Church. His children remember him singing songs from the glee club. He almost always whistled while he worked at just about anything. He made many things for their home, and his descendants all enjoy items he crafted in his workshop. After retirement, he really enjoyed woodworking. Otto enjoyed teaching and taught his children many valuable lessons about life-how to balance a checkbook how to weed a garden and do lawn care how to hunt for and find morel mushrooms, wild huckleberries, elderberries, and blackberries how to identify various birds at the bird feeders. They were happily married for 63 years until Martha's death. They spent the rest of their lives in Cadillac, Michigan, where they raised three children. Otto married Martha Ellen Shawley on August 23, 1958. For over 35 years before retiring at age 62, he worked in the highway design department for the Michigan Department of Transportation in Cadillac. As a summer job prior to his marriage, he helped build the approaches to the Mackinac Bridge. At the University of Michigan, he sang in the Michigan Men's Glee Club and received a degree in civil engineering.Īfter college Otto completed an internship in Wyoming. He attended Petoskey High School where he played football and played bassoon in the band. They moved to Bay Shore where he attended a single classroom schoolhouse. At age eight, his widowed mother married Louis Price. Otto was born on August 20, 1935, to Otto and Hazel (Johnson) Kalmbach in Petoskey, Michigan. He was a beloved husband, father, and grandfather. Otto William Kalmbach, 87, of Cadillac, Michigan passed peacefully into heaven on Sunday, January 15, 2023. ![]()
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