Betty Schreiner 1919-2007

BASHAM, SCHREINER

Posted By: N. Wagner (email)
Date: 10/7/2007 at 21:30:07

Elizabeth "Betty" Schreiner, 87, of Cedar Rapids, formerly of West Union, died Friday, Sept. 7, 2007, at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Sept. 11, at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Cedar Rapids, with the Rev. Harlan Gillespie officiating. Burial was in Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Memorial Funeral Home, Cedar Rapids, was in charge of arrangements.

Elizabeth (Basham) Schreiner was born Oct. 14, 1919, to Ilo and Nina Basham in Independence.

After graduating from Upper Iowa University, Fayette, with a teaching certificate, Betty taught elementary school in Webb, Dumont, and West Union.

On May 2, 1943, she married Wesley Schreiner.

Betty was a homemaker; was active in church, where she taught Sunday school many years and chaired church circles; and served as an election judge for a number of years. Betty was a 50-year member and past Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Her family moved to Cedar Rapids in 1972, having previously lived in Green Bay, Wis., and Sioux Falls, S.D.

Preceding Betty in death were a grandson, a brother and a sister.

Survivors include her husband, Wesley Shreiner of Cedar Rapids; a daughter, Jane (Rick) of Memphis, Tenn.; two sons, Scott of Owatonna, Minn., and Richard (Sandra) of Sioux Falls, S.D.; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a sister, Roberta, of Iowa Falls.

In lieu of flowers, the Schreiner family suggests directing memorials to the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha or to St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids.

Fayette County Union
September 11, 2007