Crystal Westercamp

CRYSTAL D. WESTERCAMP

Mount Pleasant

Crystal D. Westercamp, 91, of Mount Pleasant, died Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, at Arbor Court in Mount Pleasant. The funeral service for Crystal will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, at Kimzey Funeral Home. The Rev. Trey Hegar, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Open visitation without the family present will be from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until service time on Friday.

Memorials may be directed to the family. Online condolences may be left at www.kimzeyfuneralhome.com.

Crystal Darlene Watson was born June 28, 1929, in Van Buren County, Iowa. She was the daughter of Orla and Lena (Tompkins) Watson. She was raised on a farm north of Hillsboro, Iowa. She attended school in Hillsboro and graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1946. She was united in marriage to Myrlen Dorothy. The couple later divorced. She later married Dwight Westercamp. The couple later divorced.

Crystal was a very devoted mother to her children. She stayed on the farm to raise her children, tending to their activities while carrying out all the responsibilities of a farmer's wife of that time. After her children were raised, she worked in production in the General Electric Factory in Burlington and Heatilator Manufacturing in Mount Pleasant. She then became the secretary for Green Prairie Iowa Realty in Fairfield. When many seek retirement, Crystal enrolled in medical transcription school. In her spare time, Crystal loved to read and spend time with her family and friends.

Those thankful for sharing in her life include two sons and their wives, Keith and Cindy Dorothy and Allen and Jennifer Dorothy, all of Mount Pleasant, and Lettie Lauer of Ottumwa; two stepsons, Lewis Westercamp and Doug Westercamp; nine grandchildren, Eric De Kraai, Aaron Dorothy, Rachel Warner, Jason Dorothy, Joshua Dorothy, Justin Dorothy, Nathaniel Lauer, Megan Lauer and Michael Lauer; and several great-grandchildren.

Her parents; a son, Steve Dorothy; three brothers, Elvin, Verne and Everett Watson; and two sisters, Velma Campbell and infant sister, Ruth Watson, preceded Crystal in death.