Beatty, Harriett Margaret

Harriett Margaret Beatty, 97, died Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, at the Hiawatha Care Center following an extended illness. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Phillips Funeral Home Chapel, 212 E. Sixth St., Vinton, with the Rev. Ronald Sumption officiating. Interment will be at Evergreen Cemetery in Vinton. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 7 tonight.

A memorial fund has been established.

Harriett was born Jan. 12, 1912, in Cedar Rapids, to Myron and Margaret (Hall) Lubbock. She graduated from Shellsburg High School and the University of Iowa, with a degree in home economics. She married Harold Beatty on April 13, 1935, in Davenport. The couple farmed in the Vinton area for 60 years. Harold preceded her in death on April 24, 1995.

Harriett was a member of the Vinton Women's Club, Vinton Presbyterian Church and church circle, Harrison School Club, Harmony Club and she was a Benton County 4-H leader for 10 years.

She is survived by her children, Carole (Richard) Swanson of Cedar Rapids, Garth (Pat) Beatty of Vinton and Janet (Jim) Thompson of Decorah; eight grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by five brothers, Lewis, John, Robert, Russell and Lawrence; and three sisters, Katherine, Helen and Margaret.

Harriett was known as a person with boundless energy. She enjoyed making her old fashioned fudge, chocolate cream cheese-filled cupcakes for the grandchildren, raising her roses, cross-stitching many projects and spending time with her family.

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