Henrietta (Christians) TIBBITS

TIBBITS, CHRISTIANS, ENNENGA, CHRISTENSEN, WILSON, NUEHRING, MARTIN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/14/2010 at 23:03:19

VENTURA, IA — Henrietta “Etta” Tibbits, 88, of 5 Crystal Heights, Ventura, died Saturday (May 24, 2003) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City. Her funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m.Wednesday at the Ventura United Methodist Church, Ventura, Iowa with the Rev. Audrey Westendorf-Young officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. Visitation will be Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake and then one hour before the service on Wednesday at the church. The family suggests memorials to Hospice of North Iowa.

Etta was born in Klemme, the daughter of John P. and Christina (Ennenga) Christians. She attended school in Garner. Etta married Arthur LeRoy Tibbits on Nov. 20, 1934, in Waseca, Minn. She worked with her husband in Hanford, Washington, and later, Oak Ridge, Tenn. in the atomic plants. She moved with her husband to many different cities while he was in the U.S. Army. They moved to the farm five miles north of Ventura in 1947 and lived there until 1976, then moved to their present home. Etta enjoyed playing cards with her sisters, sewing and doing crafts. She was a member of Ventura United Methodist Church, Women’s Club, RH Club and the Ventura Senior Citizens.

Etta is survived by her two sisters, Sena Christensen and her husband, LaVern, Clear Lake, and Elsie Wilson and her husband Bill, Ventura; sisters-in-law, Evelyn Christians, Garner, Ione Nuehring, Mason City, and Doris Martin, Floyd; her brother-in-law, Donald Tibbits, Forest City; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; eight brothers and three sisters. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
May 26, 2003