Obituary Record

Betty Jane (Wilke) Wrich
Died on 8/23/2011

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Betty J. Wrich, 84

Longtime county resident

Betty J. Wrich, 84, of Blair, died Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 29, at Country Bible Church in Blair. Interment will be at 1 p.m. at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Elkhorn.

Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home with the family receiving friends from 5 to 7 p.m.

Betty Jane Wilke was born Oct. 14, 1926, in Bennington to Henry and Emma (Rohwer) Wilke. She was a lifelong resident of Washington County, farming with her husband, Raymond Wrich, in the Kennard area. The couple was married in February of 1948.

She is survived by a son, Henry Wrich of Blair; daughter and son-in-law, Alyce and Dan Watts of Mesa, Ariz.; grandchildren, Matt Ives, Lakeside, Ariz., and Jennifer and Jeff Beam, also of Mesa; two great-grandchildren, Daniel and Hannah Beam.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond, in 2003; two brothers, Raymond and Henry Wilke; and daughter-in-law, Connie Wrich.

Memorials are suggested to Country Bible Church.

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 8/26/2011


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