CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF BETZ, MINNIE ELFRING

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Obituary -
MRS. MINNIE BETZ

  	Minnie Louise Elfring was born December 17, 1881 in Metropolis,
Ill., and passed away at Sacred Heart Hospital, Yankton, on Sunday, 
February 4, (1945) at 10:15 p.m.
  	As a young girl she moved to Watertown, S. Dak., with her parents, 
and there she received her education and made her home until the time of 
her marriage.  She was married August 9, 1898 to John J. Betz, moving 
with him to St. Helena, Nebr., where she lived continuously until 
shortly before her death.
  Eleven children, seven daughters and four sons, were born.  Mr. Betz 
passed away on July 10, 1930 following an automobile accident.  Three sons 
and one daughter also preceded their mother in death.
  Surviving are one son, Fred A. Betz and six daughters, Mrs. Walter Cheney, 
Watertown; Mrs. Henry Schmidt, St. Helena, Nebr.; Mrs. John Crotty, Norfolk, 
Nebr.; Mrs. John Linsley, Sioux City, Ia.; Mrs. Frank Nickles, Yankton; and 
Mrs. Donald Aspen, Sioux City.  There are also four brothers, John and Joe 
Elfring of Watertown, William of Fort Peck, Montana, and Charles of Medford, 
Oregon.  Along with these are 17 grandchildren, three of whom are in the 
navy and two in the army.
  Mrs. Betz was a member of Immaculate Conception church in St. Helena, with 
the Rev. Fr. Bernauer officiating.  Internment was in the Catholic cemetery 
under the direction of the Kabeiseman-Donohoe Funeral Home, Yankton.  
Pallbearers were Ed Wuebben, Wm. Wuebben, Ben Wiesler, John Wiesler, Frank 
Fiener and John Schnider, all of St. Helena.


FEBRUARY 1945  THE YANKTON DAILY PRESS & DAKOTAN