Otto Paul Stieber

Otto Paul Stieber, age 98, passed away on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. He was born December 5, 1915 in McLoud, Oklahoma and spent his early years on a farm near there. He married Gladys Adair in 1940. In 1941 they moved to California where Otto worked on North Island near San Diego, operating a bulldozer building air raid shelters prior to World War I. He enlisted in the 66th Seabee Construction Battalion and served in the South Pacific. He was on the invasion of Okinawa, then aboard ship going to Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped ending the war. Otto served three years during the war then returned to his family in Oklahoma. He began working pipeline construction and, during the next forty years, moved his family around the United States. Preceding him in death were two daughters, Lynetta Hellar of Choctaw, Oklahoma and Karen Lovell of North Smithfield, Rhode Island. Also preceding him were his parents, John & Minnie Burger Stieber; sisters, Caroline Floyd, Marie Fowler, Louise Hix and brothers, William Stieber, Fritz Stieber, and Ernest Stieber. He is survived by his wife, Gladys Stieber, son, Larry & wife, Charlotte Stieber of Harrah, OK, grandson, Shawn Stieber & wife, Reba of Edmond, OK, son, Mark Stieber of Choctaw, OK, grandson, Kurt Lovell & wife Pamela of New Jersey, grandson, Kole Lovell & wife, Deena of Rhode Island and sister Lola Thacker & husband, Gene of LeMesa, California. Funeral Service will be 11:00 am Saturday, February 8, 2014 in the Bill Eisenhour Southeast Funeral Home Chapel, followed by burial at Sunny Lane Cemetery, Del City, OK.