Baty, Lola (Hitchler) 1899-1989

HITCHLER, BATY, EDWARDS, SPECHT, IMMELL, CLARK, SHUNK, COUCH

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 2/18/2005 at 10:35:14

Lola Ruth Hitchler Baty, 89, of 627 W. 3 St. S., a lifelong resident of Jasper County, died Sunday, October 1, at the Embassy Manor Care Center.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. Clifford Edwards of Beulah Heights Bible College in Atlanta, Ga., assisted by the Rev. Lynn Shunk of the New Life Fellowship of London, Ohio, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 8 a.m. Wednesday. Visitation with the family will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials in her name will be accepted.

Survivors are her two sons, Carrol of El Monte, Calif., and John of Pomona, Calif.; six daughters, Lorraine Specht of Vandanberg Village, Calif., Doris Immell, Winnona Clark and Dena Couch, all of Newton, Faith Specht of Lamar, Colo., and Junella Shunk of London, Ohio; 37 grandchildren; 67 great grandchildren; and 14 great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, LeRoy; four daughters, Rosemond Edwards, Miriam Hayes, Pauline Britsch, and Elda Baty; two brothers, four sisters; and two great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Baty, a homemaker, was a charter member of the Newton Full Gospel Church and a member of the Newton First Assembly of God.

The daughter of George William and Lida Benskin Hitchler, she was born Dec., 2, 1899 in the Metz community, attended rural Jasper County schools and Pella Junior College.

She was married to LeRoy Newton Baty June 15, 1916 in Illinois. ~ Newton Daily News October 3, 1989