On November 28, 2022 after a four-month struggle with cancer, Betty Ehlers passed away peacefully at home and was received into the arms of her faithful Lord, whom she longed to see.
Betty was born February 10, 1954 in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, the daughter of David and Evelyn Opfar. She is the third of five children, survived by: Diana (Joe) Perun, Carol Wallace, Tamra (Michael) Reddy, and David Opfar Jr. (Shari Kolesar), and numerous aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews.
She was the nucleus of her immediate family and will be greatly missed by her husband Bill (46 years married on October 16), and by her sons: Andrew (Nicole), Jeffrey, Samuel (Jessica), and Daniel (Adrienne), along with nine precious grandchildren.
Betty was a smart, bright, loyal, industrious, and behind-the-scenes worker. She knew from the beginning that marriage to Bill would likely mean movement from home to home (Elizabeth, PA to Detroit, Denver, Minneapolis, Winnipeg (in 1987) and almost to Hadashville), so she selected for her wedding bulletin cover the words from Ruth 1:16-17: “Where you go, I will go and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried.” She loved being a pastor’s wife for 20 years at Bethesda Church in Winnipeg, and a servant with others at New Life Ministries and Abundant Life Baptist Church, and again a pastor’s wife at All Peoples Church in Falcon Lake where she was just beginning to appreciate the wonderful people that make up that congregation.
She had an eye for detail and loved her work as a bookkeeper to help get Above All Projects going, and finally at Botanical Paperworks – her happy place for the past 22 years. We all commit her to the Lord’s everlasting arms until we see her again.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.thomsoninthepark.com for the Ehlers family.
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