The FUNERAL SERVICE for Mrs. Klinksick will be held at
Zion Lutheran Church in
Prairie City, Missouri on
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at
10:30 a.m.

The MINISTER will be
Pastor Michael Manz.

VISITATION will be held at the church preceding the service from
9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

INTERMENT will be in
Prairie City Cemetery,
Prairie City, Missouri.

The family requests that MEMORIAL DONATIONS be made to
Prairie City Cemetery or
Zion Lutheran Church.

I was born Betty Rose Hammer, February 26, 1924 on the family farm north of Prairie City, Missouri to William and Rosa (Bartz) Hammer the last of five daughters. I went to grade school at Bever at the age of five, because my sisters were all going and I wanted to go. We walked the mile and a half, sometimes in snow a foot deep. My mom fixed us steak sandwiches and homemade pies in a round tin dinner bucket. I loved the pies, but traded my sandwiches for bologna because we never got store bought stuff. I went to Rockville High School. We rode the bus but had to milk five cows before we caught the bus. This didn't leave much time to clean up. After graduating in 1941, I went to Kansas City to work. During World War II I worked at North American Aviation wiring bomb racks for B-25 bombers. While there, my Dad died and my sister, Leola, and I went home. We sent a telegram to our work to let them know. Leola's got to her department but mine didn't, so they fired me, which was OK because I was so upset over losing my Dad I needed the time off. I later returned to Kansas City and got a job at TWA in their office down town. I worked there until Gene, the love of my life, came home from the Navy, then I quit and we got married May 19, 1946 in my mother's home in Butler, Missouri. We left in a 1936 Ford Coupe for El Dorado Springs, Missouri, had our wedding picture taken there, then went on to Ft. Scott, Kansas and back to Nevada for our honeymoon. We had two flat tires and had to stay in a motel in Nevada. The next morning we went back to the farm owned by Gene's brothers, Harold and Floyd Klinksick, to live until we had the money to get our own place. We finally found a house to rent for $50 a month east of Prairie City, Missouri. We didn't have running water or electricity. Gene drew a $100 a month from the government for six months and also worked for his brothers for $1 a day. We got a cow for a wedding present and some chickens so Gene would buy a loaf of bread for 10¢ and we had egg sandwiches and drank milk. Gene bought a can milk route in 1947 about the time our first son, Lonnie Gene, was born in 1947. Four years later, we had another son, Davie Len. We later bought a house in Prairie City and moved to our own home. In 1954 we had our first daughter, Wyma Rose, and five years later we had our last child, a daughter, Nona Lee. I stayed home and took care of the kids, washed our clothes on a wash board until later when we bought our gas ringer washing machine. We raised our kids at Zion Lutheran Church and School. After Nona started school I worked as a teacher's aide at Zion Lutheran School for four years. After Nona was two years old we bought a farm outside Prairie City and Gene bought a grade C route and milked cows when the boys got big enough to help. In 1975 I bought a ceramic shop with my sister, Lucille, and we ran it for ten years. When Nona was almost finished with high school we moved to Pleasant Gap and lived there until 2000. When Gene retired we moved to Appleton City. Gene died in November 2005 and I remained in Appleton City because when Gene bought the house, he said that he bought it because he wanted me to have a nice place to live. My hobbies are piecing quilts and crocheting afghans and doilies for my children and grandchildren.

Preceding Betty in death were her parents, her husband and two sisters, Lucille Bollweg and Ilene McCombs.

Survivors include her two sons, Lonnie Klinksick (Carolyn) and Davie Klinksick; her two daughters, Wyma Laning (Rick) and Nona Yohe (Artie); two sisters, Leola Jagels and Wilma Dodds; one sister-in-law, Elsie Klinksick; nine grandchildren: Clint, Lance, Delanya, Terra, Courtney, Brad, Dustin, Kyla and Julie; and 21 great-grandchildren.