Nada Irene (Bobst) BOTTKE

BOTTKE, BOBST, LINDSAY, GUINANE, LYCKE, CAMPBELL, PASSEHL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/22/2012 at 13:18:37

October 23, 1927 ---- June 2, 2012

Nada Bottke, 84, of Iowa Falls, Iowa, passed away, Saturday, June 2, 2012, at the Ellsworth Municipal Hospital, Iowa Falls. No formal services or visitation for Nada Bottke will be held. A private family burial will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the family c/o her husband: Paul Bottke, 1505 Ellis Avenue, Iowa Falls, Iowa 50126. The Linn's Funeral Homes Iowa Falls Chapel is assisting the family with Nada's wishes.

Nada Irene Bobst was born in Berkley, Michigan on October 23, 1927, the daughter of Albert William and Edythe [Lindsay] Bobst. years later her family relocated to Iowa where Nada graduated from the Alexander, Iowa Community Schools with the class of 1945. The following fall, Nada enrolled at Iowa State Teacher's College (now UNI) to pursue her life-long desire to teach. Upon graduation, Nada began teaching in a country school in the Popejoy, Iowa area, then later to Reinbeck and Perry, Iowa before coming to the Iowa Falls, Iowa Community Schools in 1954. She retired from Iowa Falls Community Schools in 1993, Next to her family, teaching was the "love of her life". On June 29, 1958, Nada was united in marriage to Paul Herbert Bottke at Iowa Falls, Iowa. She was a member of the Bethany Lutheran Church, Iowa Falls, where she taught Sunday School, Bible School, and was a member of the Altar Guild.

The "real" Nada that we knew and loved left us many years ago during her long struggle with Alzheimer's. Because of this, her family has decided, in lieu of services to establish scholarships for selected Iowa Falls-Alden High School graduates in the class of 2013 who have chosen to major in Elementary Education. The family requested no flowers please. Memorials will be added to the scholarship fund.

Nada Bottke is survived by her husband: Paul Bottke of Iowa Falls, Iowa; her daughter: Nancy Guinane of Grinnell, Iowa; her grandchildren: Matthew, Katie, and Michael Guinane all of Grinnell, Iowa; and two sisters: Elsie Lycke of Alden, Iowa and Amy Campbell of Iowa Falls, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her parents: Edythe and Albert Bobst; one sister: Doris Passehl; and two brothers: Dale and James Bobst.

"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of a car I drove, what kind of a house I lived in, how much was in my bank account, or what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child."

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