Betty Ricks

Betty Ricks, 93 of Indianola, IA, formally of Coppock, died Saturday, October 25, 2025, at the Village Health Center in Indianola.

Funeral services have been set for 11:00AM, Thursday, October 30, 2025, at the Cottonwood Methodist Church west of Wayland. Burial will follow at the Cottonwood Cemetery. Open visitation will be held from 12-5PM on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at Beatty Funeral Home in Wayland. A memorial in the name of Betty Ricks has been established at Cottonwood Methodist Church and the American Cancer Society.

Betty was born May 27, 1932, in Coppock, IA, the daughter of Glenn and Lillian (Imhoff) Hesser. She attended school in Olds, IA, and was united in marriage to Harold Zane Ricks on July 22, 1950, at the United Presbyterian Church in Washington.

She was employed at Advance Ross and Mc Cleery Cumming in Washington and was a homemaker. She enjoyed piecing quilts for the ladies’ aid at Cottonwood Church, quilting, embroidery, reading, playing with the grandchildren, and was an avid Hawkeye basketball fan.

Survivors include her daughters, Rose (Keith) Kreiman of Carlisle, IA, Linda Kay Ricks of Stanwood, WA, and Susan Marie Diggins of Stanwood, WA. Four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Harold, August 11, 1992; brothers, Kenneth “Mose”, Richard, Gerald, James; sister Bertha Hill, twin infant sisters, Grace Ann and Cathrine; and granddaughter April.