William Carroll Weltha (2012)

DOLE, DREBES, GRAVES, HAGER, KOEINGSBERG, KREBS, LAGE, MOTTET, PYSE, ROUSE, WELTHA

Posted By: Shirley Keating
Date: 3/1/2012 at 17:44:13

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

WILLIAM WELTHA, WINTERSET

William “Bill” Weltha, 86, of Winterset died on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at Winterset Care Center North in Winterset. 

A visitation will be held 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26, at Ochiltree Funeral Service & Aftercare in Winterset, with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. Private burial will be held in the Winterset Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the Winterset Care Center North Activity Fund. 

Bill was born April 8, 1925, in Randall, Iowa, to Clarion and Julia Weltha. He grew up in the rural Randall area and graduated from Randall High School. Bill enlisted in the U.S. Navy in June 1943 and served as an Aviation Radioman until November 1945. After the Navy, he attended AIB. On Aug. 11, 1949, Bill married Jeneta Mottet. Bill managed Farmers Co-ops in Swea City, Iowa; Paola, Kan.; Winterset; Salina, Kan.; and Palmyra, Mo. He loved to work with and for farmers. After a stroke in 1989, Bill and Jeneta moved back to Winterset to retire. 

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Jeneta; a son, Donald; a great-grandson, Mason Hager; brothers, Reuben, David and Dennis Weltha; and a sister, Lois Krebs. 

Bill is survived by his sons, Steve Weltha of Azle, Texas, Billy Weltha of Winterset, Roger Weltha of Hollister, Mo., and Lynn Weltha of Columbia, Mo; his daughters, Lana Drebes of Hannibal, Mo., Gina Pyse of Palmyra, Mo., and Brenda Graves of Palmyra, Mo.; brothers, Duane Weltha, Lawrence Weltha; sisters, Charlotte Koeingsberg, Jean Dole, Joan Rouse, and Betty Lage. Bill is also survived by twenty-three grandchildren, fourteen and one half great-grandchildren and many, many nieces and nephews.

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