Obituary: Lyle Clinton Ottosen

by Special to the Herald Times on March 13, 2015

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On March 8, 1946, Lyle Clinton Ottosen was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., to Byron and Vera Ottosen. He was raised on a ranch three miles west of Meeker.

He attended school in Mesa, Ariz., and Meeker, having been graduated from Meeker High School in 1964. After graduation, he entered into the military, serving the United States Army in Germany and Vietnam until being honorably discharged in 1966.
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