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Yong Goettle
YONG HUI GOETTLE
West Liberty
Yong Hui Goettle, 73, of West Liberty, died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at Simpson Memorial Home in West Liberty.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service, Iowa City, where there will be an hour of visitation before the service. A reception at the funeral home will follow burial in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Memorial donations can be made in her memory to Iowa City Hospice.
Online condolences may be sent for her family through the funeral home website at www.gayandciha.com.
Yong was born Aug. 15, 1943, in Chonnam, Korea. She was educated in Korea and married Dean C. Goettle on March 9, 1970, in Seoul. After their marriage, the couple returned to the United States, where she became a citizen. For a number of years, they lived in Iowa City, where she worked at Mercy Hospital in the laundry department. She and Dean moved to West Liberty, where, for over 20 years, she worked for West Liberty Foods, retiring in 1999.
She was a member of the Korean United Methodist Church and Women of the Moose. She enjoyed traveling with Dean all across our country and back to Korea to visit family. Yong was a people-type person, enjoying her interactions with everyone.
Her family includes her husband, Dean; four siblings; and a host of other family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother.
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