Otto
Petereit
Montpelier Examiner, Thursday, 10 May
1934, page 1
Montpelier lost another of its old time business men and citizens with the death of Otto Petereit in this city last Sunday morning. Mr. Petereit had suffered a paralytic stroke a few days before and never entirely regained consciousness after he was stricken. Besides his wife he is survived by the following named children: George and William Petereit, Maywood Cal. Earl Petereit, Soda Springs; Mrs. Leo Martin, Mrs. E L Brown, Mrs. Alfred Gortcinsky and Fred, Hamlet, Lola, Ida and Norma Petereit, Montpelier; two brothers and a sister, Gustav Petereit, Raymond, and Herman Petereit and Mrs. Ida Kearsey, Minalona, Cal.
Funeral services are being held this afternoon at the Fourth ward meeting house, being in charge of Bishop Sarbach. Interment will be in the city cemetery under the guidance of the Williams Mortuary.
Mr. Petereit was born near Hamburg, Germany in 1876 and came with his parents to this country in 1887, first settling in Spokane, Wash. where he learned the baking trade. He was in business in Spokane, British Columbia and different northern Idaho towns until coming here in 1904 where he was in the bakery and restaurant business until his death except for a brief time he lived in Logan, Utah. He married Anna Steffenhagen of Logan in 1905.