Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 06:01:02 :
Marin Independent Journal
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
Section A, page 4
KENNETH W. ORTMAN
Kenneth W. Ortman of Novato, a retired Mill Valley businessman, died Saturday at Washoe Medical Center in Reno, Nev., after a long illness. She was 70.
Mr. Ortman and his wife, Sylvia, were on a camping trip when he was hospitalized two weeks ago.
He was born in Jewell County, Kansas. As a young man, he moved to Denver to work for a dairy.
He served in the Navy during World War II and saw duty on a patrol boat in the Aleutians and South Pacific.
After the war, he and his family settled in Mill Valley. The Ortmans lived in Mill Valley for 30 years before moving to Novato eight years ago.
Mr. Ortman was the service manager for various automobile agencies in Mill Valley for 30 years. He also owned Ken’s Auto Body Shop in Mill Valley for eight years.
He was a member of the Mill Valley Optimists Club and coached the club’s high school boys baseball team. He also belonged to the Mill Valley branch of the American Legion, Sons In Retirement and Tiburon Baptist Church.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Barbara Culpepper of Fairfax; a son, Larry Ortman of Elko, Nev.; three brothers, Lowell and Forest Ortman, both of Houston, Tex., and Max Ortman of Mankato, Kan.; two sisters, Alma Zedina of Mankato, Kan., and Mildred Collie of Topeka, Kan.; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
A private service will be held. Burial will be at the Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael.
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