Otena Elliott

PHOENIX -- Otena Elliott, 88, of Phoenix, formerly of Dannebrog, died Thursday, Nov. 11, 1999.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Scottsdale Presbyterian Church in Scottsdale, Ariz. Mrs. Elliott will be cremated. The family will bury her.

There will be no visitation. Memorials are suggested to the Make-a-Wish Foundation in Phoenix.

Messinger Mortuary and Chapel in Scottsdale is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Elliott was born on Sept. 22, 1911, in Dannebrog to Maurits and Annania (Kjeldsen) Andersen. She grew up there and graduated from Dannebrog High School.

She married the Rev. James S. Elliott in August 1932 at Dannebrog. She was a homemaker. She moved to Arizona 35 years ago from Kansas. The Rev. Elliott died in 1991.

Mrs. Elliott was a member of the Scottsdale Presbyterian Church. She served as a volunteer at the Arizona Center for the Blind and the Guadalupe Presbyterian Mission in Guadalupe, Ariz.

Survivors include three sons, Dale of Durango, Colo., Jim and Tom, both of Phoenix; two daughters, Mary Ann Burke of Phoenix and Ruth Budden of Topeka, Kan.; 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by three brothers and four sisters.