This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zk.2ADI/2133.1 Message Board Post: http://www.farberotteman.com/index.htm Christian “Chris” Michael Nowatzke, age 21, of Rockwell City, Iowa, formerly of Sac City, died at his home in Rockwell City on Sunday, February 19, 2006. Funeral services for Chris will be held at 10:30 a.m., on Thursday, February 23rd, at the United Methodist Church in Sac City with Rev. Donald Gibson officiating. Burial will be at Oakland Cemetery under the direction of the Farber & Otteman Funeral Home. Visitation is from 4:00-8:00 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, at the Farber & Otteman Funeral Home in Sac City. Chris was born on October 31, 1984, in Denison, Iowa, the son of Karla Sands and Michael Nowatzke. He was baptized on January 27, 1985, at the United Church of Christ in Schleswig, IA. He attended Alta Community Grade School through 1991 and transferred to Sac Community Schools, graduating in 2003. He worked in the kitchen at Park View Care Center from age 16 until graduation. He continued is education at Iowa Central Community College. For the past three years Chris worked as assistant manager in the hardware department at Menard’s in Fort Dodge. He loved to spend time with his family and hang out with his friends, messing with his computer, listening to music, and tinkering with his car in his spare time. A very special memory of his was when he went to the Iowa Football games this past fall with the gang. Survivors include his mother and step father, Karla (Sands) and Ron Peters of Sac City; his father Michael Nowatzke of Earling, IA; brothers: Raymond Paul Nowatzke of Sac City and Nathan Peters and wife Jessica and their children, Eli and Ethan of Spirit Lake, IA. Other survivors include his grandparents: Chris and Kathy Sands of Schleswig, IA, and Lester and Kandis Peters of Wall Lake, IA, and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. He was preceded in death by his brother, Jamie Peters; grandparents, Raymond and MaDonna Nowatzke; and his great-grandparents: Kenneth and Alice Shever and Fred and Catherine Sands; great-grandmother, Tollie Peters; and great-great grandmother Kate Ginger.