Bette was born in Denver, Colorado on September 11, 1941, to Ella (Cypher) and Homer Penrod. She grew up on her parents’ farm near Hudson, Colorado; where she enjoyed caring for the animals with her little brother, Jim. She graduated from Hudson High School in 1959. Bette married Thomas Dittmer on July 24, 1959. They were married for 48 years until Thomas passed in 2008. Together they had two children, David and Kerri.
Bette held many jobs through the years but always managed to put her family first. She was a bookkeeper for her husband’s restaurants, worked at the deli counter in Albertson’s grocery store in Longmont, cared for her blind mother who lived in the Dittmer household and was a wonderful, loving mom whom all the neighborhood kids appreciated.
She was a member of the 4-H Club in her youth and a member of the Rocky Mountain United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). As a child, Bette showed award-winning livestock at the National Western Stock Show. She loved fishing, camping, and traveling by any means possible – hot air balloon, car, train, bus, boat, airplane, horse, tractor, snowmobile, etc. She also enjoyed trying new recipes and restaurants.
Bette is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, David Dittmer and Kathy Carter of Evans, CO; daughter and son-in-law, Kerri and David Conrad of Fort Collins, CO; brother and sister-in-law, Jim and Margie Penrod of Pueblo, CO; grandchildren, HM Conrad and Mikayla Dittmer; and great-grandchildren, Odin and Elias Gonzales.
She was predeceased by her spouse, Thomas Wayne Dittmer; mother and father, Ella Mae Penrod; and Homer Dee Penrod; and her half-sister, Mary Virginia Baird.
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