Elizabeth Ernst, 14 Nov 1908 - 8 Nov 2007

ERNST, HEMPSTEAD, LEMMON

Posted By: Netha M Meyer (email)
Date: 11/11/2007 at 21:03:54

Betty was born on November 14, 1908, in Victor, Iowa to Carl Watson and Mertie Lemmon Hempstead. She was raised in various Eastern Iowa communities and graduated from Muscatine High School. She received a BA degree from Parsons College and later a nursing degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. On January 1, 1934, she was married to George Campbell Ernst in Stuart, Iowa. The couple lived in Ames, Iowa, College Park, Maryland, Syracuse, New York and Madison, Wisconsin before moving to Lincoln, Nebraska. The couple lived in Lincoln for 27 years and she worked as a Registered Nurse. In 1974 the couple moved to the Mayflower Homes in Grinnell, Iowa to retire. She was a member of the United Church of Christ-Congregational and the American Association of University Women. While living in Lincoln, Nebraska she served as a docent of the University of Nebraska Sheldon Art Gallery and volunteered with Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. In Grinnell, Iowa she was a member of the Stewart Library Board of Trustees, the Grinnell Art Gallery Commission, and the Grinnell Museum Board of Directors. She taught Sunday school at both the Lincoln and Grinnell United Church of Christ-Congregational Churches, and spent occasional summers as camp nurse the U.C.C. summer camps both in Nebraska and Iowa teaching campers her love of the outdoors. Survivors include one son, Stephen C. Ernst of Berkley, Michigan; two daughters, Mary Jane Scharenberg of West Lafayette, Indiana and Jean Porter of Mission, Kansas; five grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; and one brother, Jean Hempstead of Ames, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; one grandson; one great grandson; one sister; and two brothers.

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