Betty (Raber) Golightly (2019)

BAUSCH, GOLIGHTLY, HIRSCH, KONEVITCH, NOEL, PARTRIDGE, RABER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:34

McLaren’s Funeral Home
West Des Moines, Iowa

Betty Raber Golightly, age 95, passed away on December 1, 2019 at Azria Health Care in Winterset where she resided the last two years. A memorial service will be scheduled in the spring of 2020. Memorial contributions may be made to Azria Health Care in Winterset.

She was born November 26, 1924 to Lex and Gladys (Noel) Raber and grew up with her seven sisters and three brothers on a farm Northeast of Winterset. Betty graduated from De Soto High School in 1942. She married her high school sweetheart, Wayne Golightly, in 1944. They farmed west of De Soto until his death from Leukemia in 1962. Betty opened her beauty shop in De Soto in 1961 called “Betty’s Beauty Shop”. She later moved to Des Moines to work as the coordinator at Miller Beauty Supply. Betty retired in 1990 and moved back to Winterset in 2013. She was a hospice volunteer for nine years, giving many permanents for the terminally ill, and was Red Cross nurse’s aide during the war.

Betty is survived by her son, Michael (Rhonda) Golightly, daughter, Tricia (Mark) Hirsch; grandchildren, Ann (Toby) Jayne, Tate Golightly, Courtney (Corey) Bausch, Jason Hirsch, Heather (Dan) Konevitch, Marty (Miceala) Hirsch; 12 great grandchildren; sister, Geneva Partridge; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, six sisters, and three brothers.
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Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published. The deceased has an Iowa Delayed Certificate of Birth stating that she was born at Redfield, Dallas, Iowa on November 26, 1925.

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