Betty Jean Sulsberger

(Sioux City Journal (IA) - January 6, 2006)

Betty Jean Sulsberger, 81, of Onawa, Iowa, formerly of Smithland, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006, at Elmwood Care Centre in Onawa. Memorial services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Willman Funeral Chapel in Rodney, Iowa, with the Rev. Karen Handke officiating. Burial will be at a later date in Little Sioux Township Cemetery, Smithland. There will be no visitation. Betty was born Oct. 17, 1924, in Willow Township, Woodbury County, Iowa, the daughter of Thomas Franklin and Demis Sarah (Hansbrough) Fowler. She attended school in Smithland. On Nov. 27, 1942, she married Donald Dale Sulsberger. Survivors include a son and his wife, Robert and Linda Sulsberger of Smithland; three grandchildren, David of Fort Collins, Colo., Donald II in Kuwait and his wife, Krista Jean of Smithland and Jonessa of Fort Collins, Colo.; five great-grandchildren, Krista Lea, Jordan, Chyanne, Derrick and Alabama; a brother and his wife, Harold and Ruth Fowler of Smithland; a sister and her husband, Eva and Luvern Duhigg of Vancouver, Wash.; two sisters-in-law, Irene Smith and Julia Baggs, both of Hornick, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Donald on June 28, 1993; a son, Edward on Aug. 29, 1970; her parents-in-law, Lewis and Annie Sulsberger; four brothers, Raymond, Fred, Allen "Jack" and Everett; and three sisters, Dorothy Blackford, Mildred Wilson and Elsie Newman.

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