Betty Lou (Shurson) PEPPLES

PEPPLES, SHURSON, PRIEST, BRITTENHAM, OLSON, JOHN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/10/2007 at 22:36:58

Betty Lou Pepples, 80, of Fort Dodge, died Wednesday, September 5, 2007, from the results of an automobile accident in Boone County. Funeral services will be 10:30 A.M. Monday at the St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Fort Dodge. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 7 P.M. Sunday at the Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Fort Dodge.

Betty Lou is survived by her husband, Joseph of Fort Dodge; daughter, Jennifer Priest (Wayne) of Perry, Iowa; her grandchildren, Tammy Brittenham of Grimes, IA, Randy Priest (Melissa) of Muscatine, IA, Michelle Olson (Jason) of Johnston, IA, and Ashley John of Minneapolis, MN; and eight great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents and two daughters, Kathy and Cindy.

Betty Lou Shurson was born July 25, 1927, to Alfred and Gladys Shurson, Betty Lou grew up in Eagle Grove, IA. She graduated from Somers High School in 1945. She was united in marriage to Joseph Pepples on November 2, 1945. The couple made their home in Fort Dodge and celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary in November 2006. She was a member of St. Olaf Lutheran Church. Memorials in her memory may be made to St. Olaf Lutheran Church or to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Fort Dodge Messenger
9/8/2007

A Fort Dodge woman was killed and her husband injured in a single car accident Wednesday in Boone County. It happened around 4:30 in the afternoon on County Road R-18. The Iowa State Patrol says 80-year old Joseph Pebbles was driving a Chrysler Concord North when the car veered into the ditch. Pebbles was transported to a local hospital; his wife, Betty Lou, died at the scene. Investigators say when the car went into the ditch, it hit a farm field entrance which acted like a ramp, sending the car airborne. The car came down on its rear corner and flipped over on its top. Joseph Pebbles is in intensive care at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines.
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