Otto Carl HAUSWIRTH

1895 - 1974  (78 years)

• Name	Otto Carl HAUSWIRTH
  Birth	15 Oct 1895	Salsbury, Missourri, U.S. of A.
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Apr 1974	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  Person ID	I009	ABHauswirths
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2014

  
  

  Father	Jacob HAUSWIRTH,   b. 16 Jul 1862, Mascoutah, Illinois, U.S. of A. d. 21 Apr 1931, Moberly, Missourri, U.S. of A. (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Caroline FRIESZ,   b. 11 Aug 1862, Mascoutah, Illinois, U.S. of A. d. 5 Sep 1948, Brunswick, Missourri, U.S. of A. (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	3 Mar 1892	Brunswick, Misouri, U.S. of A.
  Family ID	F2	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lula Zola COLWELL,   b. 11 Sep 1908, Maitland Missourri, U.S. of A. d. 6 May 1988, Calgary, Alberta Canada (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	26 Jun 1933	Knox United Church, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  Family ID	F1	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The following information from the MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE of Otto Hauswirth and Zola Colwell markrd # 0004 - Hauswirth and Filed by Robert (Bob) Hauswirth. 1) Married at Knox United Church in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. June 26, 1933. 2) Witnesses were Zela Colwell and Frank Winkler. 3) Signature of Pastor. The following information by his son Robert (Bob) Hauswirth from memory. Dad, Otto Carl Hauswirth, was a man whom I never knew as a man who wasn't ill. He suffered from an ulcerated stomach from the time I first became aware of him until 1956 when he underwent surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, U.S. for A. That surgery allowed him to eat a decent meal once again though not a large meal. Prior to surgery he would eat soft foods and ones specifically given him as a diet by his doctor. I remember him first on his diet of nothing but milk. He would fill up on raw milk from the farm every two hours. He would go to the field to drive the tractor and take two quarts of milk with him burying the milk containers in the soft plowed earth under a fuel wagon to keep the milk cool and out of the sun. Two hours later he would stop for a drink of milk and again two hours later. We had a small Case tractor a DC4 which was of short wheelbase. This short wheelbase caused the tractor to ride rough. He sometimes would get sick from the roughness and when he did he would get off the tractor, throw up, and them get back on and drive further. He was as you might guess a very stubborn man. This was during the 1950's. At this point in time we also had another tractor, a Cockshutt 99, that had a longer wheel base, larger than the case and it rode much smoother. This tractor he could tolerate the ride so he always tried to use this tractor when he was working the fields with a tractor. In 1950 we noticed dad developing a lump on his lip about where his cigarette was constantly hanging from his mouth. The doctor (Dr. A.E. Talbot) was not sure what it was. In 1951 grandmother Elizabeth Colwell was killed in an auto accident travelling from Rochester Minnesota to Calgary with Aunt Hazel and Anut Mary and Uncle Andrew in uncle Andrew's car. Her body was brought to Calgary for buriel by Aunt Nell and Aunt Zella. After the service Dad and I drove Aunts Nell and Zela back to Rochester where dad had a checkup for the lump and I also had a checkup. CANCER was the diagnosis for dad. This lump and a small mole on his face beside his nose were both cancer. The mole was the most dangerous, a skin cancer which if it hasd been left unchecked would have been fatal in a few months. Both cancers were removed at the Mayo clinic. Dad from then on felt he was living on borrowed time. He told me just after we arrived home he expected to be buried within two years. He was wrong but lived as if he had very little time left. He refused to quite smoking as the doctors ardered. He was going to have some "pleasure with what little time he had left". He also drank coffee like an addicted man with the same excuse. In 1954 while on a trip to Edmonton to spend Christmas with the Orvis' we were "rear ended" which gave us all whiplash. There were five cars end to end when it was over. This accident cause us all to have chiropractic treatments for the whip lash. X-rays were taken and dad was warned he had calcium deposits in his joints. Later Rhumatoid arthritis was diagnosed. Speculation the high milk diet as a few years prevoius caused the extra calcium to deposit out causing th arthritis. When the pain of arthritis started to bother his sleep he would take two aspirins for relief. Later his stomach started to hurt again and speculation was the aspirins were the culprit. Dads passion or hobbies were hunting and fishing. He owned three fire arms, a 22 calibur rifle, a 300 calibur big game rifle and a twelve gauge shotgun. He like to take a month each fall and go big game hunting. When in junior high school it seemed to me we never did anything else on a sunday but go to the river or lake for a picnic and fishing. Mom got so sick of fishing trips. I got sick of trying to fish and not catch anything while dad was catching them right and left. He was good at fishing. He then wanted me to clean them when we got home while he "did his chores". Dad was a farmer all his life. This he attributed to my grandfather Jacob Hauswirth. Dad said his boyhood dream was to go railroading. Grandpa said "no" he wanted him on the farm with him. Grandpa won out. He quite school after completing grade nine and farmed with his father in Missouri. He later left Missouri for Canada and established his own farm in the Dalemead district of Alberta. The "bald headed prairie" as he called it. He told me he thought he was in heaven there for there was no brush to chop, no roots to grub and he didn't have to walk up and down hills. Dad said he made the most money from his cattle herd of which he was most proud. Mom and dad were married in 1933. He was 37 years and mom 24 years or a difference of 13 years in age. It was convenient as well as a mutual attraction for both. Dad wanted the help of a wife in the house and yard, mom lost her job in the depression and wanted stability. It worked but was "stormy". Dad was a great "saver" probably beacuse of his experience in the depression of the 1930's. Mom wanted to spend more money than dad for living but was a "saver" herself. Dad had more security having a bank account than the things a bank account could buy. Two children subsequently arriving complicated his saving money obsession. Dad while a saver did have a nice car. He would buy a "middle of the line" model in deluxe features and then completely wear them out before replacing it. He wanteed to buy a pick up truck but in his mind felt it too big an expense for the use he would get from it. He did buy one after he essentially quite farming. The car was sometimes used like a truck. The back seat some trips had a calf on the floor in a "gunny sack" with just its head out of the sack. Other times the back seat was full of egg crates or plucked turkeys. Cream cans carried in the truck of the car were common each trip to the city for supplies. He had a good line of machinery including a two ton grain truck and two tractors. Dad's health forced him to quite farming in the late 1960's. He had berger's disease a circulatory disease complicated by smoking, surgery for an ulcerated stomach and cancer. All surgery performed at the Mayo clinic in Rochester Minnisota, U. S. of A. He never quite smoking and would not entertain the idea that his health would improve if he did so.