ELIZABETH KARSCH
ELIZABETH "BETTY" KARSCH OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN MAY 29, 1919, IN OXLEY, MISSOURI, A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE RALLIE E. AND EMMA (EARNEST) MOORE. BETTY DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ON MARCH 26, 2000, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND TWENTY-SIX DAYS.
BETTY WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THE LATE JOSEPH "HOMER" POLITTE IN 1936. ON MAY 8, 1952, BETTY WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO EDWARD F. KARSCH, JR., WHO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH DECEMBER 11, 1993.
BETTY IS SURVIVED BY TWO SONS, JIM POLITTE AND WIFE JUDY OF POTOSI, JOHN KARSCH AND WIFE DONNA OF POTOSI, ONE DAUGHTER, PEGGY GEISLER AND HUSBAND RALPH OF LAKE OZARK, ONE STEP-SON, JAMES E. "JIM" KARSCH AND WIFE PEGGY OF ST. LOUIS, TWELVE GRANDCHILDREN, SIX GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE BROTHER, BUDDY MOORE OF DESOTO AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND SPOUSE SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON, JOSEPH HOMER "SONNY" POLITTE AND ONE SISTER, HELEN HOUSTON.
BETTY HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR FAMILY AND CHERISHED EVERY MOMENT SPENT WITH EACH OF THEM. BETTY ENJOYED CLEANING, FISHING AND WAS ALWAYS READY TO GO SHOPPING.
BETTY AND HER LATE HUSBAND, EDWARD F. KARSCH, JR. OPENED THEIR FIRST KARSCH FOOD STORE IN POTOSI ON APRIL 3, 1933, THEY BOTH HELD A VERY ACTIVE ROLE IN THE BUSINESS DURING THEIR WORKING YEARS..
VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2000, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2000, AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE CHAPEL WITH ELDER LEONARD COMPTON OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN REDBUD MEMORIAL GARDENS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, JIMMY GIBSON, DONALD THOMPSON, J.M. KARSCH, CRAIG KARSCH, RALPH GEISLER AND RALPH GEILSER, JR.