Betty Haynes Koehn was born to William and Shirley Haynes on November 27, 1942, at Middleton, Michigan . She was eighty years old when she went to be with the Lord on April 27, 2023 . She left us while hospitalized at Enloe Medical Center, Chico, California . Her passing was due to complications of congestive heart failure.

Betty grew up at Middleton, Mich igan, where she went to the Woods school for eight years . She was baptized by Minister Newell Litwiller on March 9, 1955, at Ithaca, Michigan . She endeavored to keep t hose ba ptismal vows, with a notable repentance and consecration later o n . With this, she was anchored in her faith until her life on earth came to a close .

When Betty was fourteen years old, she moved with her family and other families to Almena, Wisconsin . There she met our Papa, Gordon Koehn . They were married at Barron, Wisconsin, on January 10, 1959 . While they moved to various places in Kansas and then back to Wisconsin, their first three children were born in Wisconsin .

They spent seven years working at la nd leveling in the Mississippi D elta . There they enjoyed good times with Papa's Koehn family . Another move took them to southern Idaho, where their fourth child was born . Through times of hard work and a family crisis , she stood by her husband and children with a jealous love .

In April of 1980, they moved to California . P apa drove truck for various enterprises in the Glenn County area . Mama kept the home fires burning through good times and challenging times . Then came the move to Arizona and the beginning of their golden years .

These happy years found them available for service in church mission outreaches. Their first assignment was in Rochester, Minnesota . Later they spent a term in Anaheim, California . It was during these years that our mama enjoyed her only new house , built in the state of Tennessee. Bu t she was willing to leave the new house behind and spend more mission time at Renton, Washington State . During this time their friendship touched many lives . From Washington State they moved to Halstead, Kansas , to be together with their youngest son and his family.

From Kansas they moved back to Wisconsin, where they were also together with their youngest son and other relatives . Then their eldest son called them back to California . They were happy to live across the road from their daughter.

The Covid 19 pandemic struck, and Papa was called home to the B eyond . She was so lonely, but she found companionship with her similarly bereaved friends, with whom she bonded amazingly well . Her children are so thankful for her steadfastness in the church.

She leaves to miss her but rejoice in her victory her son Rodney and wife Annie, Glenn, CA; Quentin and wife Patty, Chico, CA; Pamela and husband Jesse Loewen , Glenn, CA; and Gordon Koehn, Jr. and wife, Tanya , Halstead, KS; fifteen grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren; two sisters, Charlotte Wenger, Almena, WI; Arlyn and Jim Koehn, Fairview, OK; one sister-in-law, Myrna Haynes, Bloomington, M N; and a host of in-laws, relatives and friends.

Those gone before include her beloved husband, Gordon, her parents, one brother, one sister, and a number of bro thers and sisters in law.