Harvey Heram Oertwig, 80, Purdin, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, at North Kansas City Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, at Peace Lutheran Church. Visitation will be held from 7-9 this evening, Feb. 25, 2010, at Ruschmeier Funeral Home, Browning. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Gardens, 910 Washington St., Chillicothe.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials in his name to Peace Lutheran Church, 101 Circle Dr., Milan, Mo. 63556, or Missouri Boys State, P.O. Box 667, Warrensburg, Mo. 64093.
Harvey was born May 30, 1929, in Amherst, Neb., son of Gustav and Clara (Berger) Oertwig. He married Gladys Dillard in 1950. He married Billie Jean Moore, December 26, 1964.
Harvey moved from Nebraska to farm west of Purdin where he lived most of his life. He graduated in 1946 from Linneus High School, Linneus. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod and remained a member. He was also a member of Peace Lutheran Church, Milan, where he served as an elder, Clyde Myers Post 274 of Browning, serving as commander many times. He also served as Missouri 2nd District commander and chaplain, and was a member of Forty & Eight. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps serving from 1952-1954 and was honorably discharged as a Lance Corporal. In 1972, he became a Dekalb Seed Distributor in 1977 joined the management team at Dekalb as district manager of the central-eastern Missouri area. He moved to Montgomery City and in 1986 he retired and returned to the farm in Purdin. He was an advocate of the American Legions Boys State program and was district coordinator for Missouri Boys State. He volunteered at Shafter voting precinct and served with the North Central Missouri Rural Electric Cooperative Caring Coop Neighbors Program.
Survivors include his wife, Billie Jean; three children, Terrance, Purdin, Stephen, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Vicki Hartwig, House Springs; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; a brother, Delmar Oertwig, Brookfield; and two sisters, Marge McKenzie, Belleville, Ill., and Joyce Serfass, Kansas City.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a sister, Alrene McKenzie.
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