Ramona Ottenbacher | 1930 - 2023
Obituaries-Mobridge / Posted Dec 15, 2023 | 6:53 AM / 192 views
Ramona Ottenbacher, 93, Eureka, SD, died Thursday, December 14, 2023 at Avera Eureka Health Care Center in Eureka. Services will be 10:30 AM, Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at Lien-Straub-Carlsen Chapel, Eureka. Pastor Ryan Gage will lead the service and Ronda Lapp will lead the music. Congregational Hymns will be “Gott Ist Die Liebe” and “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me”. Burial follows at Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Eureka.
Ramona Edna Diede, daughter of Emma (Knoepfle) and Ruben Diede, was born June 28, 1930 near Greenway, SD. She attended country school and then worked as a babysitter/hired girl for neighboring families. Ramona married Otto Ottenbacher at Greenway Congregational Church. Shortly after marriage, they relocated to the Hillsview, SD area and then to NE of Hosmer, SD. In 1966, they relocated to Eureka where Ramona lived the rest of her life. She retired from the Eureka Hospital in 1993, after 27 years of employment as a nurse’s aide. Ramona’s pastimes included gardening, embroidering, cooking, and baking.
She is survived by two sons—Raymond (Carol) Ottenbacher of Herreid, SD and Elmer Ottenbacher of Eureka; and two sisters-in-law, June Diede and Esther Ottenbacher.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Otto, on January 2, 1995; her parents, Ruben and Emma; and four brothers (Johnnie, Harold, Marvin, and Arnold).
Honorary bearers will be the staff at the Avera Eureka Healthcare Center. Bearers will be Ramona’s sons—Raymond and Elmer.
Services are in care of Lien-Straub-Carlsen Chapel, Eureka.