Parents: Joachim and Anna Lieb.
Siblings: Traudel Schulz (Jorg), Gustav Lieb (dec), Barbara Schmidt (dec), Gudren Wolf (dec).
Husband: Richard Winnike. Married 59 years.
Children: Trish Currin (Cameron), Austin and Steven Winnike, Georgetown.
Grandchildren: Tyler Winnike (Chirstine and great granddaughter Annika) Omaha, Nebraska and Jacob and Maci Currin, Austin.
Born and raised in Bamberg, Germany. She was working for the U.S. Government at the Army housing area in Hanau, Germany and met future husband 1st LT Dick Winnike in the summer of 1961. She followed him to Omaha, Nebraska, in June 1962 and was married on November 2, 1962. Upon arrival in Omaha, worked as a nurse’s assistant for one and a half years at Clarkson Hospital before having her first child in September 1963. She was a stay-at-home Mom until the kids reached high school. In the fall of 1987, she took a job as a directors assistant in the Omaha Montessori Schools and worked there for several years. She loved to play Skipbo and UNO with the grandkids. She was active at St. James Catholic Church as a greeter and with the bereavement committee and in the churches Rosary Groups. Worked Bingo nights at Roncalli High School to raise money for the school. She crochet, knitted, and made quilts, attended local sewing group meetings and attended the 2002 National Quilting Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. She and her husband were partial owners in a ski condo in Dillon, Colorado and she became a good snow skier. In May 2002, she and husband moved to a Del Webb Retirement community in Georgetown, Texas, to be near her family in Austin. She again became active in the St. Helen’s Catholic Church. She counted church collection money, made and served meals in the bereavement Committee and was a hospitality minister. She was a weekly hour adorer at the St. Helen’s Adoration Chapel.
Betty donated her body to research and science. She was a devoted wife, Mom and Oma to her family.
Memorial services will be held May 27 2022 at 1:30 pm at St. Helen’s Catholic Church, 2700 E University Avenue, Georgetown, Texas 78626. A reception will follow at Mulligan’s, 150 Dove Hollow Trail, Sun City, Texas 78633.
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