In loving memory of
Elizabeth 'Betty' Mary Soukup
January 20, 1916 - January 8, 2008
Betty Soukup KALONA, Iowa - Elizabeth Betty Mary Soukup, 91, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, at the Pleasantview Home in Kalona, following a long illness. Funeral Service will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008, Yoder-Powell Funeral Home, Kalona. Mr. Kyle Soukup will officiate. Burial will be at the Salem Cemetery in rural Ainsworth. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at the funeral home. A memorial fund has been established for the Iowa City Hospice. 'Betty' was born Jan. 20, 1916, in rural Washington County near Ainswoth, the daughter of Walter and Mabel Hendrickson Soukup. She married Melvin Soukup on Nov. 25, 1936. He died in July 1979. She graduated from Columbus Junction High School. They farmed in rural Ainsworth and she worked as a homemaker, sold Avon, worked at the Ainsworth Drug Store and was a cook at the Washington County Hospital. They retired to Washington in 1978 and she moved to Kalona in 1993. She was a member of the Salem Church of God and the Highland Social Club. She is survived by a son, Richard Soukup and wife, Iris, of Kalona; five grandsons, Kirk Soukup and wife, Karen, of Middletown, Mark Soukup and wife, Jana, of Pryor, Okla., Brad Soukup of Muscatine, Dallas Soukup and wife, Gena, of Pryor, Okla., and Kyle Soukup and wife, Laura, of Coralville; 11 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-granddaughter. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, James; two brothers and their wives, Warren and Roberta Owen and Max and Edith Owen; and her twin sister and her husband, Mary and Raymond Shy.