Betty Helen (Schirner) Thornburg (2011)
BENGE, COOPER, CROY, DENZLER, FAUX, GROETKEN, GROGAN, SCHIRNER, THORNBURG, TYER, WILSON
Posted By: Shirley Keating
Date: 6/10/2011 at 22:59:45
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 8, 2011BETTY THORNBURG, WINTERSET
Betty Thornburg, 89, of Winterset died June 4, 2011, at the Madison County Health Care System in Winterset.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am today (Wednesday, June 8) at Ochiltree Funeral Service. Burial will be in the Winterset Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the Activity Fund at Winterset Care Center South.
Betty Helen Schirner was born in Swan, Iowa, on Jan. 22, 1922, the daughter of Bud and Ruth (Heberline) Schirner. Betty was raised by her grandparents Ira and Carolyne Benge. She attended school at Pleasantville and later married Raymond Everett Thornburg in 1937. Her family moved to Madison County in the 1950s and she moved into Winterset from the country in 1971. Betty was a homemaker for a major portion of her life but after Raymond died in 1971 she began working as a Health Care Aid with Earlham Home Health Care for many years, retiring when she was 72.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond; siblings, Elsie Croy and Silas Schirner; and two grandchildren, Bobby Cooper and Amber Grogan.
Betty is survived by her children, Norma Cooper of Winterset; Kathy Faux of St. Charles; David Thornburg of Winterset; Jennie Wilson of Des Moines; Judy Groetken of Grimes; Ruth Tyer of Winterset. She is also survived by an adopted grandson, Danny Thornburg of Des Moines; siblings, Katherine Schirner of Winterset; Ancil Denzler of Houston, Texas, and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
________________________Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Monday, June 6, 2011Betty Thornburg, Winterset
Betty Thornburg, 89, of Winterset, died June 4, 2011 at the Madison County Health Care System in Winterset.
A visitation will be held from 1 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, June 7 at Ochiltree Funeral Service & Aftercare in Winterset where the family will be present to receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., June 8 at Ochiltree Funeral Service. Burial will be in the Winterset Cemetery and memorials may be directed to the Activity Fund at Winterset Care Center South.
Betty is survived by her children, Norma Cooper of Winterset; Kathy (Donnie Sr.) Faux of St. Charles; David (Mary) Thornburg of Winterset; Jennie (Larry) Wilson of Des Moines; Judy (Ron) Groetken of Grimes; Ruth (Tom) Tyer of Winterset. She is also survived by an adopted grandson, Danny (Lynette) Thornburg of Des Moines; siblings, Katherine Schirner of Winterset; Ancil (Barb) Denzler of Houston, TX and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
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