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Leo M. Witthoeft

October 15, 1921 — August 20, 2007

Leo M. Witthoeft, 85, Moorhead, MN, died on Monday, August 20, 2007, in MeritCare Hospital, Fargo, ND.Leo M. Witthoeft was born on October 15, 1921, in Burleene Township, Todd County, MN, to Frank William and Anna Schlie Witthoeft. He grew up and attended school there. He was inducted into the Army on November 15, 1942, and served in the European Theatre of WWII, discharged on March 15, 1946. He married Hattie Underhill on January 1, 1942, in Whipholt, MN. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service out of Walker, MN, until retiring to Alaska. Leo had recently been living in Sun Lakes, AZ. He was preceded in death by his wife on January 11, 2003.Leo is survived by two sons, Kenneth Linda Witthoeft, Anchorage, Alaska, and Brian Karen Witthoeft, Moorhead, MN; one daughter, Janice Rudolph Ferdinand, Wasilla, Alaska; seven grandchildren, four great-grandchildren.

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