Obituary of Dorothy E. Knight

Dorothy E. “Betty” Knight, 84 of 3239 Washington Street, Iowa City died Sunday, June 3, 2007, at Solon Nursing Care Center in Solon following complications of a stroke. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, June 8, 2007, at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Iowa City with the Reverend Karl Divine-Koch officiating. (Sunday parking ordinance will be in effect for the streets around the church). Visitation will be from 5 to 7pm Thursday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City. In lieu of flowers memorial donations can be made in Betty’s memory to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church or Iowa City Hospice. Online condolences may be sent for Betty’s family through the web @www.gayandciha.com. Betty was born Dorothy Elizabeth Swanson, May 6, 1923, in Morning Sun, Iowa the daughter of Siqfreid and Nina (Siverly) Swanson. She graduated from high school in Alexander, Iowa in 1941. On January 14, 1945, she married Russell B. Knight at Scott Air Base in Scottfield, IL. Betty and her family moved to Iowa City in 1958 from Ackley, Iowa. Here in Iowa City she worked for the University of Iowa for over twenty years in a number of departments including personnel, geography, the registration center, and Quill & Scroll retiring in 1988. She has been an active member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church of Iowa City and an active member of her women’s circle. Betty enjoyed many things in life, her friends in the First Wednesday Club, her lifelong passion of music, visiting the ocean and traveling the world with Russell. But most important and dear to her was her love of family. As far as Betty was concerned she had it all, the love of a devoted husband and family. Betty’s family includes her husband of sixty one years, Russell; children, Bev Knight of Shelburne, VT; Marty Knight and his wife, Barb of Las Vegas, NV, Bill Knight and his wife, Karen and their family Robert, Kristin and Scott of Iowa City; Jacque Robinson and her husband, Chris of Portland, OR; and Betty’s sister, Delores Erickson and her husband, Robert of Maquoketa, IA. She was preceded in death by her sister, Virginia Hanze. Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service is caring for Betty’s family and her services.