Individual Details

Death

Son of Emil E. & Gertrude Ann Wise Oltmanns

David Oltmanns age 54, of West Melbourne, Florida, and formerly of Cedar Rapids and Anamosa, died Friday, December 9, 2011 in Melbourne.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 Saturday morning, December 17, 2011 at the S.S. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church, at 21069 Prairie Hill Road Monticello, Iowa 52310, with interment in the Prairie Hill Cemetery. Rev. Paul Finger will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 4 until 8 on Friday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello.

Surviving are his wife, Sharon, West Melbourne, Florida, 2 brothers, Edward (Grace) Oltmanns, Anamosa, Robert (Joan) Oltmanns, Center Junction, 3 sisters, Evelyn Blattner, Blairstown, Carol Oltmanns, Anamosa, Jacqueline (Jim) Lovell, Central City, his brother and sisters-in-law, Shirley Tobiason, Cedar Rapids, Bernhard and Gary Tobiason, Monticello, Sharlene (Jeffrey) Soper, Washington, and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his Parents, a nephew Christopher Soper, a brother-in-law, Russell Blattner, and his mother and father-in-law, Lyle and Marcella Tobiason.

David Eugene Oltmanns was born December 22, 1956 at the John McDonald Hospital, Monticello, Iowa. He was the son of Emil E. and Gertrude Ann Wise, Oltmanns. He graduated from the Anamosa Community Schools with the class of 1975. He later attended Kirkwood College in Cedar Rapids.

David had farmed the family farm, worked as a truck driver, worked on pipeline construction, and sold Stanley Products. Before moving to Florida in 2008 he had been a driver for a Rehabilitation Teacher with the Iowa Department for the Blind.

David married Sharon Tobiason on July 3, 1991 at Las Vegas, Nevada. David was baptized at St. Paul Lutheran on January 6, 1957 where he confirmed his faith on April 4, 1971.

David loved going to the Jones County Fair, the Iowa Hawkeyes, car racing, going to Disney, reading westerns, dining out, and getting together with family and friends.