Person:Otto Stein (1)

Dallas Morning News, June 8, 1985. Services for Otto Stein, longtime Dallas resident and former owner of Stein's Cake Box bakery, will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Phillips and Luckey Funeral Chapel in Rockdale. Graveside services will be held 11 a.m. Monday at Restland Funeral Home in Dallas. Stein, 85, died Thursday at an Austin hospital after a brief illness. He began working part time and after school in his father's bakery in Rockdale about the age of 12, said Stein's sister, Emily York, of Rockdale. When he was 14, he decided to leave school and work in the bakery full time, she said. Stein moved to Dallas in 1950 and opened Stein's Cake Box on the corner of Forest Lane and Preston Road. Stein, along with his wife, Julia, operated the bakery until they retired and sold the business in 1967. The Steins moved back to Rockdale in November 1984 and celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary Nov. 1, Mrs. York said. Stein is survived by his wife and sister, both of Rockdale; sisters Gertrude Wingard, Louise Norwood, Della Martin, Katharine Holland, Helen Stein, all of Dallas, and Edna Garrett of Hobbs, N.M.; and a brother, Joe A. Stein, of Dallas.

Note by great-grandneice Tammy Hensel: One of my favorite childhood memories is visiting Uncle Otto at the bakery in Dallas. He always saved a special gingerbread man cookie just for me. He sold the bakery in the 1970s and moved back to Rockdale to enjoy retirement. http://www.steinsbakery.net/aboutsteins.html

A mural in downtown Rockdale depicting the history of the city shows a 14-year-old Otto driving the delivery horse-drawn wagon for the original Stein's Bakery owned by his father. It was painted from a photograph published in a book during the town's centennial celebration.

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