Betty Marie Denzin (Rieckhoff)

Service Details

Funeral services will be held in Draeger-Langendorf Funeral Home on Monday, October 9, 2023 at 12:00 noon. Interment will follow in West Lawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be in the funeral home on Monday, October 9^th, from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon.

Manitowoc, WI (formerly of Racine) – Passed away in Manitowoc, WI on Friday, September 15, 2023. Born Nov. 4, 1928 to George & Gladys (Hunter) Rieckhoff Sr. on the Hunter Farm in the Town of Raymond, Racine County, WI.  Betty was a 1946 graduate of William Horlick High School.  She was united in marriage to Clarence F. Denzin on November 18, 1949 at the Raymond Congregational Church.  They were married over 66 years, until Clarence’s death on April 22, 2016.

Betty was a homemaker; she enjoyed their yard, huge garden and many flowers.  She canned vegetables and made the most wonderful dill pickles.  Aunt Betty – as we called her – enjoyed reading, bird watching, studying the night sky and was in a constant battle with the squirrels in her bird feeders!

Betty moved to Manitowoc in 2018 to be near her family.  She lived in an independent living apartment and, as her needs progressed, moved to assisted living, both at Felician Village.  Aunt Betty was a cherished family member; we will miss her!

Surviving are her niece and nephew, Lynn (Rieckhoff) and Michael Fettes; great nieces and nephews, Angie (Jeremy) Sivis, Amy (Titus) Seilheimer and Aaron (Andy Wilken) Fettes; great – great nephews, Tor and Leif Seilheimer; and sister-in-law Mary Rieckhoff.  Also surviving are many cousins, nieces and nephews.

Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence, her parents and her two brothers, George Rieckhoff Jr. and Jerome Rieckhoff.

Funeral services will be held in Draeger-Langendorf Funeral Home on Monday, October 9, 2023 at 12:00 noon. Interment will follow in West Lawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be in the funeral home on Monday, October 9^th, from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon.

A heartfelt thank you to the Villa-Lakeside at Felician Village and to Teri at Sharon S. Richardson Hospice.  Your kindness, care and concern helped immensely during our long good bye to Aunt Betty.