Betty Jean Gunter

Funeral services for Betty Gunter, 91, of Norfolk, will be at Friday, Aug. 12, at 10:30 a.m., at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Orchard, with Pastor Ryan Janke officiating. Burial will be at St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Orchard. Visitation will be an hour before service, at 9:30 a.m., at the church.

Betty died Aug. 7, 2022, at St. Joseph's Nursing Home. Snider Memorial Funeral Home in Clearwater is handling the arrangements. Condolences may be sent to family at http://www.snidermemorialfh.com.

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Betty Jean Schrader Gunter was born on a farm two miles west and three miles south of Orchard and two miles north and three miles east of Ewing, to William Edmund and Martha Catherine Kohlhof Shrader, April 6, 1931. She went to rural District 86 for eight years and graduated from Ewing High School in 1948 as salutatorian of her class.

Betty was baptized and joined the United Presbyterian Church in Ewing on March 21, 1948. She married Verl Eugene Gunter, of Ewing, Sunday, Aug. 28, 1949, at the United Presbyterian Church there. She lived 64 years in Nebraska, three in Illinois, three in Indiana, three in Oklahoma and 18 in Colorado. She loved to do scrapbooks and photo albums, play cards, embroidery, Bible studies and write her columns Sunrise, Sunset and Tiny Town Talk for the local weekly newspapers and going to Betty's Club.

She and her husband joined the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, Feb. 6, 1955, in Neligh. Verl was ordained a pastor on July 19, 1981, in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. He died in 1999. She is a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Norfolk, where her mother, Martha Kohlhof, was confirmed in 1904 in German language.

Survivors are two daughters, Judy Ann (John) Head of Jones, Oklahoma and Janet Jean (Toby) Eisenach of Ft. Morgan, Colorado; two sons, Johnny Verl (Marilynn) Gunter of Marshall, Minnesota and Jamey Eugene (Peggy) Gunter of Norfolk; one sister, Mary Lou Wettlaufer of O'Neill; 12 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.

Betty is preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Verl E. Gunter in 1999; her parents; three sisters, Ruth Ann in infancy, Alice Shrader and Dorothy Johnston; two brothers, Willie and Eddy; sister-in-law, Frances Shrader; two brothers-in-law, Archie Johnston and Gerald Wettlaufer; and grandson, Travis Charles Head.