HAROLD T. BOETTCHER

Blue Hill resident Harold T. Boettcher, 88, died Tuesday November 17, 2009 at Mary Lanning Hospital in Hastings. Services are 10 a.m. Saturday November 21, 2009 , at Merten-Butler Mortuary chapel in Blue Hill with Pastor Dan Cosson officating. Burial with Military rites by A.L. Shirley Post #176 of Blue Hill will be in Blue Hill Cemetery. Visitation is 1-8 p.m. Friday and one hour prior to services Saturday all at the mortuary. A memorial has been established. Harold was born February 15, 1921 to August W. and Helen (Kort) Boettcher at Blue Hill, Nebraska. He graduated from Blue Hill High School in 1940. He served in the Navy during World War II from June 1942 to November 1945. He spent three years in the Pacific Theatre aboard the USS San Francisco. He was an Electrician's Mate First class. After returning from the War he was able to do the love of his life, raising Polled Hereford cattle and farming with his family. He was a member of the USS San Francisco Association, the Polled Hereford Association, and a member of A.L. Shirley Post #176 of Blue Hill, Nebraska. He is survived by one sister-in-law, Violet Boettcher of Blue Hill, Nebraska, two newphews, Alvin Boettcher and family of Dickinson N.D. and Gale Boettcher and family of Blue Hill. He was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers, Louis, Clarence, Ervin, Arthur,sr. and Howard. one sister Evelyn Boettcher and one nephew.