RICHARD S. "DICK" BOOTH , 81, of Alta, Iowa, formerly of the Peterson, Iowa area, passed away peacefully Wednesday evening, November 22nd, at his home in Alta.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, November 27th, at 2 p.m.at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Pastor Norman Prather, Hospice Chaplain will officiate. There will be full military rites following the service outside the funeral home by L.A. Wescott Post #2253 of the V.F.W. and Dean Underwood Post #10 of the American Legion. Visitation will be on Sunday from 12 noon until 6 p.m. with the family present from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee. Following the service cremation will take place. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com

Dick was born on January 22, 1936 at Rembrandt, Iowa to George & Verna (Corrington) Booth. He graduated from Brooke High School rural Peterson, Iowa. He was married to Lorraine Griffith on January 4, 1959 at the St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Cherokee, Iowa.. He served in the U.S. Army from February 1959 until being discharge as a SPC4 in February 1961. He farmed from 1961 until 1986 on a farm south of Peterson, Iowa. Dick then went to work for the U.S.D.A. as a federal meat inspector until retiring in November of 1999. He had been a resident of Alta, Iowa since 2004 and prior to this had lived in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and California and rural Peterson, Iowa. He was a member of the Methodist Church, Dean Underwood Post #10 of the American Legion at Peterson, Iowa. He enjoyed golfing, playing cards and board games, playing pool, dancing, snowmobiling in his younger years, traveling with his wife Lorraine and spending winters in Texas, which they did for 14 years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a son Duane Booth in August of 2002, 4 brothers and 2 sisters.

He is survived by his wife of almost 59 years Lorraine of Alta, Iowa; two daughters: Cynthia (John) Osborne Sr. of Nebraska City, Nebraska; Michele (Travis) Hoschar of Tallahassee, Florida; six grandchildren: Regina (Tim) Hughes, Nicole (Edward) Billmeyer, Tyler Booth, Ashley (Gerad) Velasquez, Cody Booth, Quentin Bonge (fiancé Noelle Pingree); four step-grandchildren: Esther (Craig) McCormick, John (Heather) Osborne Jr., Jade (Greg) Rice, Jacob Hoschar (fiancé Jordan McGraw); thirteen great grandchildren with one more on the way; sister Pat (Bill) Jensen of Battle Creek, Iowa; a special niece Shari Carlson of Marcus, Iowa.