Betty L. (Walter) Grieser, 92, of Archbold, Ohio passed away peacefully to her eternal home on September 23, 2020 at CHP Hospice in Defiance, Ohio. She was born at home in Waterville, Ohio, on May 5th , 1928 to Samuel Clyde and Fannie Mae Walter.
She graduated from Waterville High School and worked on her parents’ dairy farm. Betty loved baking, gardening, and managing the LeBe Poultry Farm while caring for her children.
She also enjoyed long walks while hunting mushrooms in the woods behind their farm. Betty demonstrated a keen sense of humor frequently, with practical jokes and riddles that she shared with many.
Betty worked at Sauder Woodworking 15 years prior to her retirement in June 1995. Betty was baptized at 11 years of age in a small country church in Providence, Ohio. She was a charter member of Zion Mennonite Church while living in Archbold.
After moving to Wauseon, she actively attended Crossroads Evangelical Church, where she was re-baptized and worshiped, until establishing her residence at Fairlawn Haven, where she continued her faith journey by attending chapel services.
Betty was preceded in death by her late husband Leon (Smokey), and son Philemon. Leon and Betty celebrated 55 years of marriage. The couple met at Lugbill Livestock Auction on a trip that Betty took with her father to sell market animals. They were married on October 24 th , 1947, and were blessed with eight children.
She was the loving mother to Philemon, (Connie), Kalamazoo, MI; Carmilla (Ed) Nafziger, Archbold; Jim, Archbold; Don (Dick Gibb), Bloomfield Hills, MI; Ed, Hesston, KS; Donna Augustine, Maumee; Max (Bev), Camden, MI; and Patricia (Homer) Miller, Stryker. She has 21 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren.
Also, preceding her in death were her parents Clyde and Fannie Walter, siblings Lillian (Bill) Payne, Anne (Robert) Marx, Nellie (Harold) Schuldt, Dorothy (Bruno) Boehk, Katie (Ed) Musty, Pearl (John) Bergman, Charles (Ruth) Walter, Robert (Donna) Walter, Mae (Eric) Davis, infant brother Paul Walter, Bill Walter, andgrandson, Jeffrey Pach.
Due to COVID-19, there will be a private graveside service. Internment will be at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Providence Township, Ohio.
Those wishing to share a memory or make online condolences may do so by visiting www.grisierfh.com. Memorials may be given to Fairlawn Haven, Archbold, Ohio or CHP Inpatient Hospice Center, Defiance, Ohio. Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home in Wauseon has been entrusted with the arrangements.
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