Obit: Lenz, Betty May (1929 - 2010)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Lenz, Boardman, Bauer, Boon, Warmuth  
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) January 27, 2010 
 

Lenz, Betty May (16, July 1929 - 24 January 2010) 
 

Betty Lenz, 80, of Greenwood, died Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, in the Intensive Care Unit of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield. 
 

Betty May Lenz was born July 16, 1929.  She attended school in Greenwood and graduated from Greenwood High School in 1947.  She was united in marriage to Wilbur Lenz in 1950.  While Wilbur worked for the Clark County Highway Department, Betty farmed at their home in Weston Township. She retired from farming in 1975 and then began working for the Nelson Filter Company in Neillsville. She worked there for three years and then went to work at Weyerhaeuser in Marshfield.  She worked at Weyerhaeuser until 1994 when at the age of 64, she retired. 
 

Betty was a member of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Christie.  She enjoyed traveling and helping her son on the family farm. 
 

She is survived by three children, Harold Lenz of Greenwood, Mary Jane Boardman of Austin, TX, and Evan Lenz of Greenwood; two grandsons in the U. S. Navy, FC3 Avatar V. (Maria) Boardman of Norfolk, VA, and MIDN 2/C USNR Herakles A. Boardman of Daytona Beach, FL. 
 

Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur in 1973. 
 

Funeral services for Betty will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, at the Gesche Funeral Home in Neillsville.  Pastor John Warmuth will officiate.  Interment will be in the Marie Louise Chapel Cemetery in Christie.  Visitation was from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Gesche Funeral Home. 
 

Casketbearers are Harold Lenz, Evan Lenz, Wayne Lenz, Ed Bauer, Erick Bauer and Duane Boon.  
 

Online condolences may be made at www.GescheFH.com  
 

The Gesche Funeral Home is assisting Betty’s family with funeral arrangements.