Helen Honts

HONTS, KAISER, BECKER, MACLEAN, MICKLE, DOLAN BERTLING, EVANS, LAWSON

Posted By: Gary Honts (email)
Date: 10/4/2008 at 14:01:17

Muscatine Journal
Monday, December 22, 1997

Helen Honts
IOWA CITY- Helen Honts, 67 of 726 Highland Ave. Iowa City, died of cancer,
Saturday December 20, 1997, at her home.
A funeral Mass will be at 1:30 P.M. Tuesday, at the St. Patrick Catholic
Church in Iowa City. Burial will be at the St. Joseph Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 P.M. tonight, with a parish rosary recited at
6:30 P.M. and a vigil service at 7 P.M. at the Lensing Funeral and Cremation
Service in Iowa City. Memorial donations may be made to Iowa City Hospice or
the American Cancer Society.
Mrs. Honts was born February 2, 1930 in Hardin, Ill., the daughter of John
and Lela (Kaiser) Becker. She married Farrell Honts on February 2, 1948 in
Hardin. Prior to moving to Iowa City in 1958, the couple lived in Muscatine.
For many years she worked at Hamburg Inn in Iowa City, and before her
retirement, she worked at the Patio Restaurant in Iowa City.
Survivors include one son, Dennis Honts of Iowa City; six daughters, Mrs.
Wayne (Carolyn) MacLean of Fort Madison, Marolyn Honts and Mrs. Jerry
(Vicki) Mickle, both of Iowa City, Sheila Dolan of Coralville, Debbie Honts
Bertling and her husband Gary Bertling of North Liberty, and Lisa Honts of
Coralville; nine grandchildren, two foster granddaughters, one great
grandson, and one expectant great grandchild; four sisters, Evelyn Vetter of
Kampsville, Ill., Mrs. Raymond (Carmelita) Dirksmeyer and Mrs. Ronald
(Rosemary) Evans, both of Carrollton, Ill., Mrs. Lawrence (Patricia)
Pohlmann of Godfrey, Ill.; six brothers and sisters in law, Sylvester and
Doris Becker of East Alton, Ill., Eugene and Angie Becker of Fresno, Calif.,
Ralph and Opal Becker, Jerome and Virginia Becker and John and Marcella
Becker, all of Kampsville, Ill., and Harold and Carol Becker of Normal,
Ill.; and three sisters in law, Fern Yocum of Muscatine, Mrs. Floyd (Hazel)
Lawson of Prophetstown, Ill., and Velma Honts of Muscatine.
She was preceded in death by her husband on Aug 30, 1985.
Summited by Gary Honts