Adams, Betty Ann Torgerson (1947-2001)

ADAMS, TORGERSON, BAXTER, WASHINGTON, MCALISTER, CHRISTIANSEN, HENRY, JOHNSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/18/2021 at 12:44:56

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Friday, June 22, 2001

Betty Ann Adams, 54 years of age, of Eagle Grove died June 20, 2001 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Clarion. Her funeral service will be held on Saturday, June 23 at 10:30 a.m. at the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Eagle Grove with the Rev. Ray Salemink officiating. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Eagle Grove. Visitation is from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, June 22 at the Willim Funeral Home in Eagle Grove.

Betty Ann Torgerson was born May 3, 1947 at Ellsworth, Iowa, to Haakon Olando and Charlotte Marjorie (Baxter) Torgerson. She grew up in Ellsworth and graduated from South Hamilton High School in 1965. She then attended Burnels Beauty School in Ames, Iowa.

On August 24, 1968 she was united in marriage to Duane Lee Adams at the United Methodist Church in Eagle Grove. They had one daughter, Sherlene Marie. She worked for Dodger Manufacturing and for Casey's General Store in Eagle Grove. She was a member of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church and was active with Girl Scouts. She enjoyed sewing, gardening and woodworking with Linda Asche. She loved to spend time playing and swimming with her grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and grandparents.

Her memory will be cherished by her husband Duane Lee of Eagle Grove; daughter Sherlene Marie and her husband, Russel James Washington of Eagle Grove; four grandchildren, James Martin, Alexandria Marie, Tyler Joseph and Jonathon Thomas Washington; four sisters, Mary McAlister of California, Cleo Christiansen of Norfolk, Virginia, Minnie Henry of Eagle Grove and Patricia Johnson of Duncombe, Iowa; a brother Ernest Torgerson of Seattle, Washington, and other relatives and friends.