Family graves at Lutheran Cemetary, Queens, NY.

Spoke Hoch Deutch to his parents. Married Anna Cordes when he was 25. Died at 38 (39?). Was tallish (5'11") and slender. He was a Mason (there is a portrait of him in his regalia). Loved to hear his wife play piano. Juliette remembered him as strong, a "firm father", bright, a good father, was stern - as in children should be seen and not heard. Otto played ball in the street with neighborhood boys after work. Juliette said it was a good marriage. She was only 8 when he died at age 38 (39?) of "walking" typhoid fever. He fathered six children in thirteen years of marriage, but the last and youngest died at age 2, a boy. The panic of 1906 weakened Otto and caused crisis leading to death: did that mean he had typhoid for one or two years before death?

Otto worked for Flower Co. banking house. After his death, they paid his full salary for two years to support his 5 children and wife Anna. Anna also received an inheritance from Otto's father Otto Zanker when he (or his wife Julia) died. Juliette told how the great aunts Emma et al refused to give up the money to Anna, so Juliette had to go to them and demand Anna's share, about $2,000. ca. 1915?. Anna also received help from her father Fred Cordes. However, all the children began working in late teens.

Worked as a clerk at Ellis Island for a time. Family took the ferry to give him the news that he was accepted at Flower and Co. investment banking house. In "panic" of 1906-07 he stayed up several nights in a row to help Flower Co. through the crisis. That weakened his health. He died of typhoid in 1907 at age 39. Flower Co. failed in the 1910-11 depression. Married 13 years - 6 children. Juliette was 8 yrs old when he died. Otto bought the country home at Schooley's Mt. with 9? acres, where family then summered. Also owned brownstone home in Brooklyn.