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RATH, Betty Lou (Springer) 1927-1998

RATH, SPRINGER, ELLIS, SCHWICKERATH, KOBLISKA

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/31/2012 at 17:15:02

Betty Lou Rath

CHARLES CITY, IOWA — Betty Lou Rath, 71, of Flint, Texas, formerly of Charles City, died Friday (April 17, 1998) at East Texas Medical Center, Tyler, Texas, of complications following aneurysm surgery.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Main and Gilbert streets, Charles City, with the Rev. Dennis D. Niezwaag, senior pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Sunnyside Memory Gardens south of Charles City.

Friends may call from 2 to 9 p.m. today at Fullerton Hage Funeral Home, 401 Blunt St., Charles City. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. this evening. Visitation will continue one hour prior to services at the church Wednesday.

Betty Lou Rath, the former Betty Lou Springer, was born February 1, 1927, in Charles City, the daughter of Glen Charles and Irene Barbara (Ellis) Springer.

She attended school in Charles City and graduated from Charles City Community High School in 1945.

On Dec. 16, 1945, she was united in marriage to Adolph Malta "Bud" Rath at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Charles City, by the Rev. Walter Fritchel. The couple made their home in Charles City.

Mrs. Rath was employed as a secretary by Ahart Printing and Linotype School, Homer Dobbs Coal Company, the Charles City Press, the Bob Thompson Travel Agency and the Oliver Tractor Factory, all of Charles City. For several years, she was a secretary at the Family Credit Union of Charles City from which she retired.

The Raths began to winter in Flint, Texas, and moved there in 1983. They would travel back to Iowa to spend their summers in Lansing, Iowa.

Mrs. Rath was a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church of Tyler. While in Charles City, she was a member of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Betty loved playing bingo, fishing and hunting. She enjoyed bowling in a bowling league while in Charles City.

Living family members include her husband, Adolph "Bud," Tyler, Texas; two daughters, Carolyn Schwickerath, Waynesville, N.C., and Connie Gibbs and her husband, Terry, Tyler, Texas; her mother, Mrs. Irene Springer, New Hampton; a brother and his wife, Glen Charles and Nancy Springer, Cedar Falls; a sister, Mrs. Joan Smith, New Hampton; a daughter-in-law, Susan Rath of Texas; nine grandchildren, Tom Ross, Bud Rath, Tasha King, Tara Farley, Tanya and Shane Schwickerath, Ryan, Tony and Amanda Gibbs; and three great-grandchildren, Christine, Mark and Tanner.

Betty was preceded in death by her father, Glen Charles; a son, David Rath; a sister, Norma Kobliska; and a son-in-law, Charles Schwickerath

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