Roy Augustus Peotter

1908 - 1993  (84 years)

• Name	Roy Augustus Peotter
  Born	22 Nov 1908	Town of Osborn, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin
  Gender	Male
  Died	06 Mar 1993
  Buried	Highland Memorial Park, Appleton, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin
  Person ID	I172289	Little Chute Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2016

  
  

  Father	August Albert Peotter,   b. 05 Oct 1869, Town of Osborn, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin ,   d. 05 Mar 1933  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Ida Friederiske Louise Rusch,   b. 02 Sep 1867, Lubien Dolny, Resko, Lobez, West Pomeraia, Poland ,   d. 01 Aug 1959, New London, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin  (Age 91 years)
  Married	05 Apr 1889	Town of Osborn, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin
  Family ID	F67355	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Myrtle Marie Elsie Sachs,   b. 24 Oct 1907, Town of Osborn, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin ,   d. 18 May 1988  (Age 80 years)
  Married	27 Aug 1931	Seymour, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin
  Children	1. Shirley Mae Peotter,   b. 03 Apr 1932, Seymour, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin ,   d. 16 Oct 2016  (Age 84 years)   2. Janice Elaine Peotter   3. Donald Leroy Peotter   4. Kennen Robert Peotter
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F69158	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  Myrtle grew up on her parents' dairy farm and graduated from the rural, one-room South Osborn School, later known as Pioneer School. When she was almost 18 she was employed as a live-inmaid at the residences of two prominent Appleton families from 1926 until she was married in September 1931. On August 27, 1931 she and Roy married at Emmanuel Lutheran church parsonage in Seymour. Roy grew up on his parents' dairy farm west of Seymour, graduated from the North Osborn grade school and worked off the farm when in his late teens. He met his wife to be when he accompanied his father to the Fred Sachs farm to buy medication for their horses. After their wedding Roy and Myrtle first lived in Seymour in the August Peotter house. Two months later they moved to his parents' farm, west of Seymour in section 6, township of Osborn. They shared the large brick farmhouse with Roy's parents and helped them operate the large dairy farm. After August unexpectedly died in 1933 Roy operated the farm by himself until an older brother and his family returned to the farm in 1935. Those were difficult times as the rural economy was slow to recover from the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed. They learned to do without. In April 1938, Roy and Myrtle moved their family to an eighty acre dairy farm purchased in Section 31, township of Cicero, northwest of Black Creek, WI. This is where they farmed until 1980 when their youngest son, Kennen, purchased the farm. Also in 1938, they joined St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church in Black Creek. Their children attended grade school in Black Creek and high school in Seymour. Roy and Myrtle continued to make the farm their home until Myrtle's death in 1988 and Roy moved to a Seymour apartment in January 1993. Myrtle, age 80, died May 18, 1988 in Appleton following a lengthy battle with cancer. Roy, age 84, died on March 6, 1993 in an Appleton hospital of heart failure. Interment for both was at highland Memorial Park cemetery in Appleton.