Betty Lou West 1916 to 2010

WEST, DAWSON, POWELL, BRANDT

Posted By: James Mincks (email)
Date: 3/13/2010 at 11:15:27

Betty Lou West, 93, of Waterloo, formerly of Ankeny, Iowa, died at Rosewood Estates on Monday, March 8, 2010 following a recent illness.
She was born October 30, 1916 at Des Moines, Iowa, the daughter of Edwin and Lillian Powell Dawson, the youngest of four children. She lived on the east side of Des Moines near what is now Grandview College. Her father had his own business selling cars as Dawson Motor Company. Early in life he worked as a blacksmith and shoeing horses for Flynn Dairy delivery wagons. Betty graduated from East High School and a year later married Everett West of Ankeny in 1935. They lived in Ankeny where Everett was an auctioneer and also operated a trucking business with his father. In 1953, they moved to the family farm near Elkhart, Iowa and later retired in Ankeny. Since 2006, she resided at Friendship Village, Waterloo. Betty loved visiting with friends and neighbors.
Her favorite thing was brewing coffee and having people in, anytime and many times a day. Her specialty was making pies and passing them around to neighbors. She seldom failed to digest the newspaper and loved watching Drake, UNI, ISU and SUI sports on TV.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, a grandson Stephen Brandt, and a daughter-in-law Kathie West, a brother, Richard and two sisters, Helen and Alice. She is survived by a daughter, Sheryl(Joe)Brandt of Waterloo; a son, Ted West of Barrington Hills, IL; four grandchildren, Laura(Bill)Noecker, Mark Brandt, Angie(Roger)Standrige, and Kristin West; also surviving are three nieces, Patty(Dean)Winchell, and Ronda(Merrill)Beck, all of Norwalk, Iowa and JoAnn(Myron)Holmgren of Hurst, Texas.
Memorials may be directed to Cedar Valley Hospice or Hospice Compassuss.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, March 12, 2010 at the Geneseo United Methodist Church in rural Buckingham, Iowa. The family will greet friends one hour prior to services at the church.
A memorial service for Betty will be held in Ankeny this spring.

taken from the Des Moines Register, Thursday, March 11, 2010; Metro section, page 7B, column 3.