News and Courier...Tues., May 27, 1969
 
Mrs. H. M. Ostendorff
  Mrs. Gertrude Ostendorff of 
9-E  Sergeant  Jasper
Apartments, widow of H. Martin
Ostendorff, died Monday at a local 
nursing home.
  Funeral services will  be held
Wednesday afternoon at Stuhr's 
Downtown Funeral Chapel. The
time will be  announced later.
Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery.
 Mrs. Ostendorff was born Oct.
22,1880,in Allendale,a daughter 
of  the  late Josiah Seth Mixson
and Caroline Brabham Mixson.
She  was  a  member of  Grace 
Episcopal Church and was a member
of long standing in the Daughters
of the American Revolution and the
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
     Surviving are: one daughter,
Mrs. Lloyd C. Blank of Charleston: 
two sons, Harold M. Ostendorff of  
Charleston and Edward M. Ostendorff 
of Greenville: one sister, Mrs. 
D. Q. Towles of Hollywood: and 12 
grandchildren and 16  great 
grandchildren.