LEDGER, Betty Lou 1927 - 2015

LEDGER, LAMPE, ADAM, NOVAK, PALMER, DOUGHTY, BRUNING, PEIFFER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 9/24/2015 at 16:18:38

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, September 14, 2015
Page 6

Betty Lou LEDGER

Betty Lou LEDGER, 88, of Fairfield and formerly of Brighton, died Saturday evening, Sept. 12, 2015, at SunnyBrook Living Care Center in Fairfield.

A funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in East Pleasant Plain, with the Rev. Robert Striegel officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.

Visitation with family present will be from 4:30-7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church. Prayers for a Christian wake will begin at 7 p.m.

Memorials can be made to St. Joseph's Church, St. Joseph Cemetery Association, Hospice Compassus of Cedar Rapids or memorial masses. Memorials can be left at the church or mailed to the Bill LEDGER family at 10 Kenneth Drive, Iowa City 52245.

Gould Funeral Home of Brighton is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. LEDGER was born May 22, 1927, in Harper, the daughter of A.J. and Loretta LAMPE ADAM. She married Lester R. LEDGER Feb. 14, 1953, in Harper. He died April 13, 2009.

She grew up in Harper and graduated from St. Elizabeth Catholic School in 1945.

She was a homemaker and had worked at Nieter Funeral Home in Fort Madison and the Harper post office.

She was active with many interests: dancing, roller skating, reading, drawing, stamp and coin collecting, gardening, hand forming clay figurines, playing cards, photo tinting, crocheting, and was "locally famous" for donating the chickens for the St. Joseph Fall Bazaar & Auction.

She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, the Altar and Rosary Society and the Red Hat Society.

Survivors include: four daughters, Joyce NOVAK and husband John of Toledo, Debra PALMER of Altoona, Bonnie DOUGHTY and husband Marshall of North Platte, Nebraska, and Mary BRUNING and husband John of Fairfield; five sons, Steve LEDGER and wife Vicki of Richland, Bob LEDGER and wife Shelly of Minnetonka, Minnesota, Ron LEDGER and wife Linda of Pekin, Illinois, Bill LEDGER and wife Collette of Iowa City and Rick LEDGER and wife Melanie of Oak Grove, Missouri; 30 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; one sister, Vivian PEIFFER of Derby, Kansas; and one brother, Dennis ADAM of Fairfield.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by: her parents; and one brother, Vernon "Bud" ADAM.

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