Elizabeth G. "Betty" Kesselring

Elizabeth G. “Betty” Kesselring, 92 of Dakota City passed away Thursday, December 20, 2012 at a South Sioux City Care Center. Services will be 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, December 26, at Becker – Hunt Funeral Home with the Rev. Anthony Espinosa officiating. Burial will be in the Dakota City Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 10 A.M. until service time at the funeral home. Following the service at the cemetery, there will be a lunch and gathering with the family at the Hy-Vee Club room in South Sioux City. Betty was born November 18, 1920 in rural Hamill, South Dakota the daughter of August and Anna M. (Simmons) Zastrow. She had lived in Utah, but spent most of her life in Chamberlain, South Dakota where she was employed at Al’s Oasis. She married Howard Kesselring in August of 1949 in Chamberlain, South Dakota. He died in June of 1977 in Chamberlain, South Dakota. She moved to South Sioux City 1984 where she was employed at I.G.A. and Park Plaza Motel until retiring. She was a member of St. Michael Catholic Church in South Sioux City. Survivors include a son John and his wife Joan McNeil of McCook Lake, South Dakota, a daughter Marilee and her husband Edward Goethals of Dakota City, two twin brothers: Matt (Fern) Zastrow of Sioux Falls, SD, Joe (Vera Zastrow of Wessington Springs, SD, five grandchildren: Michael, Dayton and Derek McNeil, Dayna (Victor) Lipscomb, Alieca (Craig) Clift, and eight great grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by her parents, a son Howard, Jr., four brothers, five sisters and two grandchildren: Marisa Goethals and Kelly McNeil. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren.