Bernice H. Schweitzer

Bernice Schweitzer MUSCATINE, Iowa #45;- Bernice H. Bates Schweitzer, 99, of Muscatine died Saturday, Jan. 19, 2002, at the Muscatine Care Center. Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. The Rev. Tom Parrott will officiate. Musical selections will be provided by organist Florence Hetzler. Pallbearers are Paul Papke, Alex Papke, Dearrel Bates, Roger Bates, Tom Bates and Todd Schweitzer. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation is 9 a.m. until service time Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials have been established for New Hope United Methodist Church. Mrs. Schweitzer was born was born on Oct. 3, 1902, in Davenport, the daughter of George and Lillie Stellrecht Bates. She married Ernest A. Schweitzer on April 7, 1928, at the United Brethren Church in Muscatine. He preceded her in death in 1980. She was a registered nurse at Hershey Hospital and a homemaker. She was an active member of New Hope United Methodist Church, having sung in the choir and attended many church events. She also enjoyed cooking. A favorite past time was sitting on her front porch in her rocking chair and visiting with neighbors. She especially enjo...[more]

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her grandchildren and family. Survivors include two sons, Donald Schweitzer and his wife, Glenda, of Leesburg, Fla. and Norman Schweitzer and his wife, Patricia, of Davenport; two grandchildren, Paula Papke and her husband, Alex, of Davenport and Todd Schweitzer and his wife, Georgette, of Leesburg; two great-grandchildren, Paul Papke and Emily Papke; a brother, Raymond Bates of Muscatine; and a sister-in-law, Helen Bates of Muscatine. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a sister, Dorothy Bowlus; and two brothers, Loring Bates and Kenneth Bates.