BETTE M. DOUNTAS, 80

Bette M. Dountas, 80, died Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001, at the Ridgewood Manor in Maumee, Ohio, of complications from Parkinson’s disease.

Graveside services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Wisner Cemetery.

Bette Jean Dountas was born Feb. 6, 1921, the youngest child of Leo and Mabel (Marsh) Meier, owners of Meier Clothing co., in Wisner. She was a 1939 graduate of Wisner High School.

After graduation, she moved to Omaha, where she was employed by Union Pacific Railroad at their corporate headquarters for 17 years.

She married Thomas J. Dountas of Omaha in 1950, and the couple remained in Omaha where Mrs. Dountas was later employed as an assistant librarian at Hillside Elementary School.

The couple purchased a farm outside of Blair in 1963. Mrs. Dountas was a secretary at Dana College and also assisted her husband in the recordkeeping for his forklift business, Liftco, Inc., located in Blair and later in Herman.

In 1990, the couple moved to Wisner, where they resided in the original home of her grandparents, a Wisner Vintage home built in 1901, until her husband’s death in January 2000. Mrs. Dountas resided at Wisner Manor for several months before moving into an assisted living facility near her daughter’s home in Maumee.

Mrs. Dountas enjoyed needlepoint, knitting, crocheting and college football.

She is survived by her only child, Susan Dountas-Collar of Maumee, and a sister, Josephine Lanka of Arizona.

Memorials are suggested to the Parkinson Alliance, 211 College Rd. E, 3rd Floor, Princeton, N.J. 08540, or the Wisner Meals-on-Wheels program.

Kuzelka-Minnick Funeal Home in Wisner is in charge of arrangements.