The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., March 8, 1962, page 5

JOHN H. HOLTMAN CALLED BY DEATH

     Funeral services for John Henry Holtman, 79, Underwood, were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 at Gardner's Chapel White Salmon.  The Rev. H.C. Streufert officiated.  Burial was in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
     Casket bearers, all nephews, were Harry and Leroy Schultz; Leon, Raymond, Jerome and Bill Holtmann.
     The deceased was born on Oct. 29, 1862 at Meridosia, Ill. and was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church.
     In 1898 he left Illinois and came to Hooper, Nebraska.  Two years later he moved to Montana where he spent 40 years as a foreman of the Fort Benton Cattle and Sheep Ranch.
     In 1940 he came to Woodland, Washington where he was crippled by a woods accident in 1946.  In failing health, he has made his home with his brother Fred Holtmann at Hood.  He died last Saturday, March 3, at Skyline Hospital, White Salmon.
     Survivors include three brothers, Fred W. Holtmann of Hood (Underwood), Adolph Holtman of Arlington, Nebr. and Louis Holtman of Melgrove, Missouri; a sister, Mrs. Alma Lehmann of Stanton, Nebr. and numerous nieces and nephews.