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Bette Ottmar

July 19, 1937 — October 17, 2020

Bette M. (Davison) Ottmar passed away Oct. 17, 2020 at the Forest Manor Nursing Home in Dewey, Oklahoma, of natural causes. Memorial services for Bette will be held 11 a.m. Thursday June 17 at Eastgate Funeral Service, 2302 E Divide Ave., Bismarck.

Burial will be held 1 p.m. Thursday at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan, where Bette will be interred with her husband, Ben.

Bette was born July 19, 1937 in Bismarck. Shortly thereafter her family moved to Killdeer, where she graduated from Killdeer High School in 1955 and began attending Dickinson State University, majoring in Elementary Education. It was in Killdeer where Bette met and married her husband, Benjamin Ottmar,  August 16, 1958.

After moving to Fort Peck, Montana, in 1962, Bette joined the staff at Fort Peck Elementary School. She also attended summer school at Dickinson State University where she completed her degree in Elementary Education in 1970.

Bette is survived by her daughters Laurie, Baltimore, M.D., and Julie, Oklahoma City, Okla.; grandchildren, Shelbie and Benjamin; sister-in-law, Joanne Davison, Grand Forks; as well as many nieces and nephews and their families.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her brothers; and her husband.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.

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