Obituary of Yong Hui Goettle

Yong Hui Goettle, 73 of West Liberty, died Saturday, January 28, 2017, at the Simpson Memorial Home in West Liberty. Funeral services will be held at 10am Thursday, February 2, 2017, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service, where there will be an hour of visitation prior to the services and a reception at the funeral home following burial at 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 @ www.gayandciha.com. Yong was born August 15, 1943, in Chonnam, Korea. She was educated in Korea, and she married Dean C. Goettle on March 9, 1970, in Seoul, Korea. The couple returned to the United States after their marriage, where she became a citizen. They lived in Iowa City for a number of years 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 the 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.