William 'Bill' Henry Hotes

William (Bill) Henry Hotes was born October 30, 1929 on the family farm near Bloomfield, Nebraska, the eldest son of Henry Herman Hotes and Doris Alice Scheele. He departed this life to join his Lord on February 2, 2021, at the age of 91.

When Bill was 2 years old, he moved with his parents to Potter, Nebraska. After his father died in 1936, he and his mother moved to Kimball County, Nebraska, where he lived until he graduated from Kimball County High School in 1947. On September 9, 1951, he was united in marriage to Dorothy Mae Christensen at the First Lutheran Church of Potter. They made Pot...