Obit: Lenz, Betty  (1929 - 2010)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

Email: audero@charter.net

Surnames: Lenz, Boardman

----Source: The Loyal TRG  (Loyal, Clark County, Wis. (27 Jan 2010)

Lenz, Betty  (16 JULY 1929-24 JAN 2010)

Betty M. Lenz, 80, Greenwood, died on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, in the Intensive Care Unit of Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the Gesche Funeral Home, Neillsville. The Rev. John Warmuth officiated. Interment was in the Marie Louise Chapel Cemetery, Christie. Casket bearers were Harold Lenz, Evan Lenz, Wayne Lenz, Ed Bauer, Eric Bauer and Duane Boon.

Betty Mae Lenz was born on July 16, 1929. She attended school in Greenwood and graduated from Greenwood High School in 1947. She married Wilbur Lenz in 1950. While he worked for the Clark County Highway Department, she farmed at their home in the town of Weston. She retired from farming in 1975, and then began working for the Nelson Filter Company, Neillsville. She worked there for three years and then went to work at Weyenhaeuser in Marshfield. She worked at Weyerhaeuser until 1994, when at the age of 64, she retired. She was a member of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Christie. She enjoyed traveling and helping her son on the family farm.

Survivors include three children, Harold Lenz, Greenwood; Mary Jane Boardman, Austin,Texas, and Evan Lenz, Greenwood; and two grandsons in the U.S. Navy, FC3 Avatar V. (Maria) Boardman, Norfolk, Va., and MIDN@/c USNR Herakles A. Boardman, Daytona Beach, Fla.

Preceding her in death was her husband, Wilbur in 1973.

The Gesche Funeral Home, Neillsville, assisted the family with arrangements.