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Sunday, Dec. 08, 2002 Monterey County Herald, Monterey, CA
John Otter
John Delaware Otter, 85, died of cancer Nov. 20 in Carmel Highlands.
He was born Nov. 11, 1917, in Fresno. Mr. Otter was a retired professional forester, registered civil engineer and and a licensed land surveyor, inventor and patent holder. Mr. Otter graduated from the School of Forestry at the University of California at Berkeley and later completed civil engineer training through International Correspondents School. He was commissioned in 1942 at the Army Engineer Officer Candidate School at Ft. Belvoir, Va. He served as captain in the 97th Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the construction of the Alaska Highway, then in Southeast Asia in the New Guinea campaign.
He was a life member of the Society of American Foresters, and a board member and past president of the local chapter, a former board member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping, the Society of American Military Engineers, the American Society of Arboriculture and the California Oak Association. He was also an active member of The Nature Conservancy, a forestry advisor to the Big Sur Land Trust, the Ventana Wilderness Sanctuary, the California Native Plant Society and the Sierra Club. He was a former member of the Carmel Valley Property Owners Association, a board member and chairman of the Carmel Highlands Fire District.
He is credited with devising Monterey County's fire slope density formula and determining allowable development density in the original Carmel Valley Master Plan.
The informal collection known as "Hospital Daze" illustrates his keen sense of humor and talent as a cartoonist. He enjoyed playing every brass horn that came his way. Mr. Otter loved canoeing, camping and sailing at his summer home in British Columbia.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Jeanette Weld Otter of Carmel Highlands; three daughters, Marjorie Sue Bruneau of Davis, Nancy Clark Otter of Carmel Highlands and Alice Rebecca Fontes of Elk Grove; three sons, Lee Worth Otter of Santa Cruz, John Delaware Otter Jr. of Boonville and Carmel Highlands and Robert Weld Otter of Monterey; nine grandchildren; a sister, Alice Rebecca Otter Moorhead of Claiborne, Md.; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother, Robert Hartwell Otter.
Memorial services will be held at a later date.
The family suggests that any memorial contributions be made to The Nature Conservancy, 201 Mission St., 4th Floor, San Francisco 94105 or Big Sur Land Trust, P.O. Box 221864, Carmel 93922 or Carmel Highlands Volunteer Fire Department, 73 Fern Canyon Road, Carmel 93923 or Monterey Bay Chapter, California Native Plant Society, P.O. Box 221303, Carmel 93922.
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