wing as many flowers and trees as space allowed. She enjoyed belonging to the Muscatine Garden Club and became a Master Gardener. Betty and Dan operated the Golden Chain Café in Lowden and later Sauer's Dining Wheel Cafeteria in Muscatine. Betty was a realtor with Gibson and Gibson in Muscatine and retired from Scott's Outdoors. She also participated in Leadership Muscatine. Betty loved cooking and baking. At her restaurants she baked pies, cakes, and her famous cinnamon rolls from scratch. Once entering a Pillsbury Cook Off and receiving an award for her Swiss Sugar Kuchen coffee cake. Betty loved cats and was an arm chair traveler through reading. Those left to honor her memory include a daughter, Vicki Hampton and husband, Terry, of Dumas, Texas; a son, Scott Sauer and wife, Jane, of Muscatine; eight grandchildren, Neil, Jennifer, Melissa, Sarah, Amy, Molly, Rebecca, and Andrew; 12 great-grandchildren; and a daughter-in-law, Janis Sauer of Tipton. She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Dan; two sons, Barry and Craig Sauer; and one brother, Elmer Silberhorn.
Ralph J Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home
Muscatine, IA 52761
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