| Name |
Betty Lou Sprague |
| Date Of Birth |
12/5/1928 |
| Date Of Death |
7/7/2010 |
| Funeral Home |
Richie |
| Tribute File |
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Funeral services for Betty Sprague, age 81 of Bedford, who died Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at her home in Bedford were held Friday, July 9, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. at the Ritchie Funeral Home in Bedford. Visitation was Thursday from 3 PM to 7 PM with the family greeting friends from 5 PM to 7 PM. Interment was held in the Fairview Cemetery in Bedford. Memorials may be given in Betty’s name. Memories can be shared with the family at www.ritchiefuneralhome.com. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Bedford.
Betty Lou (Maley) Sprague was born December 5, 1928 in New Market, Iowa the daughter of Floyd Beryl “Swede” Maley and Alice Bertha (Clabaugh) Maley. She grew up in the New Market area attending school, graduating from the New Market high School with the Class of 1947. After high school, Betty attended beauty school in Des Moines, Iowa. On June 25, 1950 she was united in marriage to her high school sweetheart, Floyd Bud Sprague, in New Market. To this loving union two sons, Terry Lee and Richard Allen were born to bless their lives.
After their marriage, Bud and Betty moved to a farm south of Siam. In 1959, they moved to a farm in Benton Township where they lived until 1997 when then moved into Bedford. The couple truly enjoyed farming and the lifestyle it provided their family. It always gave them great satisfaction watching the farming operation grow through their children and grandchildren. During this time, Betty also worked as a hairdresser for over forty years. She enjoyed the outdoors whether it was mowing or helping Bud on the farm. However, family was her true passion and she was very proud of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She and Bud enjoyed traveling, spending winters in Arizona. In their younger years, she and Bud were active in square dancing. Betty enjoyed her “girls club”, maintaining a close relationship with them over the years, as well as her two coffee clubs that met at the Junction Café and Godfather’s.
Left to cherish Betty’s memory are her two sons, Dr. Terry Sprague and wife Mary Jane of Audubon, Iowa; and Rick Sprague and wife Pam of Bedford; four grandchildren, Bruce Sprague of Syracuse, Nebraska; Kristen Lucas and husband Jon of Rock Port, Missouri; Steven Sprague and wife Michelle of Audubon, Iowa; and Justin Sprague, who is stationed with the United States Army at Camp Zama in Japan; six great-grandchildren, Colton and Mayson Sprague; and Ethan, Caleb, Ryan and Levi Lucas; a sister, Lois Marie Marino and husband Rol of Brea, California; a sister-in-law, Kathleen Teeters of New Market; along with many other nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
Preceding Betty in memory are her parents; her loving husband Bud in June of 2008; and a grandson, Bradley Sprague in 1997.
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