SERVICES TODAY FOR MRS. HOTZE
Services will be at 2 pm Tuesday in Garrison funeral home for Mrs. Priscilla R. Hotze, 71, of 1832 NW 29, who died Sunday in a Tulsa hospital Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery.
Mrs. Hotze had been visiting a daughter, Mrs. A. E. Smith, in Tulsa since suffering a stroke here, July 10 and had been confined to the hospital two weeks.
She was the wife of the late E. G. Hotze who died years ago. She was born Oct. 24, 1876, in Brownsville, Tenn.. and came to Oklahoma City in 1907.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Earl H. Cross, Dallas, Texas and Mrs. Smith, Tulsa; a son, Ernest G. Hotze, Houston, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Lucy B. Holloway, Brownsville. Tenn., and Mrs. Sarah Cole. 3006 NW 14, and four grandchildren.
Also see http://www.gottschfamily.net/Hotze/3.html
[I did not locate an obit or death notice for Ernest George
Holtz]
Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
Ernest George Hotze, 80, a fifty-year resident of Houston, died
Thursday In a local hospital. Hotze, born in Oklahoma City on March
1, 1915, was a graduate of Classen High School and Oklahoma
University where he received a degree in Petroleum Engineering. He
worked his way through college by working for Indian Territory Oil
Illuminating Company as a roughneck and roustabout in the oil fields
near Norman, Oklahoma.
On December 7, 1941, he was hired by Dresser- Clark, a division of Dresser Industries. In March, 1975. after 34 years with the company, he retired as vice-president of sales. He founded Compressor Engineering Corporation, a Houston manufacturing firm, and was still serving as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at the time of his death. He was a member of Annunciation Catholic Church, Pi Kappa Alpha, the Houston Club, the Petroleum Club, and Brae 8urn Country Club. In 1946, he founded the Sooner Club of Houston. He served on the Board of Directors of the Southern Gas Association and as the first president of the Foundation for Life in Houston. In 1980, he served as financial chairman in Houston for the Ronald Reagan for President campaign. Long active in the Republican Party, he attended 17 state and 2 national party conventions.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Ernest George and Priscilla Hotze, his sister Elizabeth, and one grandson, David Bradley Hotze.
He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Margaret Fagan Hotze; his son Dr. Steven Forrest Hotze, wife Janie, and their children, Mary Elisabeth, Catherine, Sarah, Paul, Patrick, Deborah and Rebekah; his son Bruce Read Hotze, wife Beth, and their children Elizabeth, Bruce Jr., Christy, Michele, Helen, and Ernest HI; his son James Benedict Hotze, wife Cindy, and their children, Melissa, Margaret Anne, Timothy Ernest, William James and Lorraine; his son Ernest Mark Hotze, wife Cathy, and their children, Ernest Matthew, John Luke, and Gary; his son David Neill Hotze; his son Richard Kennan Hotze, wife Nancy, and their children Philip and Alexander; his daughter Gretchen Heerensperger, and her husband, Dr. Timothy E Heerensperger, and their children, Jonathan, Jennifer, Bridget, Emily, Gregory, and Laura; and his son Christopher Andrew Hotze. wife Ashley, and their children, Thomas and Kathleen; and seven nieces and four nephews. Rosary will be at Annunciation Catholic Church at 7:15 p.m. on Sunday and the funeral Mass will be there at 10 a.m. on Monday. In lieu of flowers, friends may wish to send donations to the Foundation for Life, *1 West Loop South, Houston, TX 77027, or to the Thomistic Studies Program of the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX.