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Betty Innerst, 88, died Sunday, October 18, 2009. Homemaker wife and mother, was born in Canton, China on October 9, 1921, the daughter of medical missionary parents. Her family returned to the United States in 1927, when her father began his medical practice in Dayton, OH. She attended schools in Dayton, and was graduated from high school in 1939. That same year she entered Otterbein College in Westerville, OH, and in 1943 received her college degrees in English and Speech. Upon graduation she was married to Ivan Innerst, of Westerville, and lived in Dayton while her husband served in the Army Medical Corps overseas during World War II, in the European Theater of Operations. Following the war, in 1947, the couple moved with their two children to the Los Angeles area where her husband was employed as s journalist on several newspapers in Southern California. There she was active in rearing her five children and as a member of the Santa Monica Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and in faculty matters when her husband was on the faculty of the Graduate Department of Journalism at UCLA. In 1962 she moved with her family to York, PA and in 1969 to Albuquerque. When her children were older, or married with children of their own, Mrs. Innerst returned to school, to then take library science courses at the University of New Mexico. She was awarded a school library certificate from the University in 1972. Having converted to the Catholic faith, she received baptism in 1974 at the Aquinas Newman Center on the university campus, and in 1978 was charged with setting up the federally-supported Head Start Library at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Albuquerque. For some twenty years she served as a volunteer librarian at the Newman Center Library, in the beginning under the first librarian, Mercedes Gugisberg, after whom the library was later named. She in the following years trained others to serve on the volunteer staff. Through these years she was active as well in the New Mexico Church and Synagogue Library Association. She twice served as president of the organization which furthered the work of religious-based libraries throughout the state. She is survived by her husband, Ivan Innerst of Albuquerque; sons, Ivan Craig Innerst and wife, Lynn of Dauphin, Canada, Stacy Innerst of Pittsburgh, PA and Sean Joseph Innerst of Denver, CO; daughters, Carolyn Sue Puchaty and husband, Don of Phoenix, AZ and Wendy Innerst Nevin of Dallastown, PA; 12 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and brother, Alva Dean Cook, Jr. MD of Topeka, KS. Rosary will be recited Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 9:30 a.m., at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, 4020 Lomas NE. Mass will follow rosary at 10:00 a.m., also at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church. Interment will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Please visit our online guestbook for Betty at www.RememberTheirStory.com. French 1111 University Blvd. NE (505) 843-6333
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