WARDRIP, Betty L. 1930-2009

WARDRIP

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/12/2009 at 15:38:34

OSAGE, IOWA - Betty L. Wardrip, age 78, of Osage, and formerly of Mason City, passed away Saturday, January 10, 2009, at the Osage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Osage, after a courageous five-year battle with cancer.

Funeral services will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 13, 2009, at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage with the Rev. Bruce Kaltwasser officiating. Burial will be at the Osage Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage. Memorials may be given to Hospice of North Iowa.

Betty was born on November 29, 1930, at Winner, South Dakota. In 1949, she graduated from high school at Wall Lake.

Betty and her husband Clyde operated Mason City Furniture and Clyde's Furniture Mart, along with Betty owning and operating Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio in Mason City for many years. In 1973, they moved to California and had a furniture store in Fallbrook, Calif., until retiring in 1983. Betty moved back to North Iowa in the mid-1990s. She lived at the Evergreen Apartments and then Apple Valley Assisted Living for the last few months of her life.

Betty was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Osage. She loved to quilt, knit, paint, and read.

Betty is survived by her children, Steve (Jean) Wardrip of Baxter, Minn., and Jacque (Al) Brandau of Floyd; grandchildren, Adam (Candice) Wardrip of Shoreview, Minn., Wendy (Dan) Waters of Plymouth and Bridget (Eric) Arthur of Mason City; twin great-granddaughters, Emme and Evah Wardrip; and great-grandchildren, Coleman and Kenzie Waters.

She was preceded in death by her husband Clyde Wardrip in 1981.

Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, 641-732-3706.

[Published in the Globe Gazette online - www.globegazette.com - 1/12/2009]