She also enjoyed cooking, canning, and baking, especially for her family and her grandchildren. Betty loved playing cards, dancing, sewing, and crafts. Betty was a member of the Scott Hustlers Homemakers Club for over 60 years, Sewing Club for 70 years, Card Club, and she was a Red Hatter. Betty volunteered her time and talents for many groups at many places, including at school in the library, the kindergarten room, and the after-school program at the senior center where she took part in the Senior Olympics was a 4-H Club leader, she was a sewing leader for the Smiling Scotties 4-H Club, taught crafts for 4-H Discovery Day, helped at the Lincoln County Fair, and helped with the after school program. John Lutheran Church in Merrill, that is where she was confirmed (April 2, 1939) and married (May 31, 1947). Betty also worked as a substitute food server at Merrill schools. Betty worked at the Merrill Candy company and Weinbrenner Shoe Company. Betty also delivered the Senior Center newsletter. Together, Betty and Art delivered meals on wheels, the Wausau Daily Herald, the Foto News, and the Buyer’s Guide. Betty and Art owned and operated a dairy farm in the Town of Scott for 40 years and helped Art with custom farming work. He preceded her in death on October 8, 2013. Betty married Arthur ‘Art’ Voelz on May 31, 1947, at St. Her father passed away when she was 6 years old and her mother passed away when she was 12 years old, she was then taken care of by her 10 older siblings. On September 6, 1925, Betty was baptized at her home. Betty was born August 10, 1925, in the Town of Scott, Lincoln County, daughter of the late Albert and Martha (Hinz) Sense. Voelz, 97, of Merrill, passed away Thursday, October 13, 2022, at Aspirus Wausau Hospital.
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