May 28, 1940 - Feb. 10, 2006
ST. CLOUD -- Bette Patricia Deitz, 65, of St. Cloud, formerly of Willmar, died Feb. 10 in Mesa, Ariz., from a brain tumor.
The service will be at 1 p.m. April 8 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in St. Cloud. A private burial will be at Mound Grove Cemetery in Evansville.
She was born May 28, 1940, in Evansville to Pearl (Swenson) Thorson and Walter Norgren.
She married C. Thomas Deitz in 1960. She lived and worked in the medical and business fields in Willmar and St. Cloud.
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She married Ellis Liesemeyer in 2002. They lived in St. Cloud and wintered in Apache Junction, Ariz.
She is survived by her husband; children: Nancy (and David) Zimmermann of Watertown, Wis., Steve (and Amy) Deitz of Alexandria; stepchildren: Kathy and Greg, Loren and Diane, Claire, Karen; four grandchildren; her mother of Alexandria; and siblings: Mary (and Tom) Thomas of Palo Alto, Calif., Nancy Wasberg (and Jim Johnson) of Fergus Falls, Robin (and Kevin) Carey-Sweeney of Moorhead, and Bruce (and Nancy) Thorson of Brooklyn Center.
She was preceded in death by her father and one sister.
