Betty Ann Lindsay
d. March 26, 2011
Betty Ann Lindsay
Betty A. Lindsay died March 26, 2011 at Oak Terrace Assisted Living, North Mankato, Minnesota.
Memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, March 31, 2011 at Hilltop United Methodist Church, Mankato. Visitation will be one hour prior to service at the church on Thursday. Burial will be held in Ft. Snelling National Cemetery.
Betty was born to George Andrew and Ruth (Froom) Becker July 25, 1933, in Youngstown, Ohio. After graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School, she worked for the Navy Department in Arlington, Virginia. She studied music and opera at the Toutorski School of Music, and languages at George Washington University, both in The District of Columbia. She later returned to Youngstown and enrolled in Dana School of Music at Youngstown University.
She worked at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County and as a music and crafts aide at a nearby nursery school. She was also a part-time secretary to the district superintendent of the Methodist Church. From 1955 until 1960 she worked as television program secretary at WKBN.
She married George Andrew Lindsay, August 6, 1960, at Trinity Methodist Church in downtown Youngstown. They moved to Shadyside, Ohio and lived in river towns where her loving husband worked as a construction supervisor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
They moved with their three children to Mankato, Minnesota in 1975. Here she was able to continue some of the schooling begun so long before. She received a B.S. from Mankato State University in 1984, and an M.A. in Creative Writing in 1991.
Betty enjoyed spending time with her family, gathering rocks, music, painting, reading and writing. Betty was the first recipient of the Robert Wright Writer's Scholarship from Mankato State University.
She leaves her husband of more than 50 years; her children, Andrew and Barbara Jergensen Lindsay, of Maple Grove, Minnesota; Richard and Julie Bergemann Lindsay, of Mankato, Minnesota; Michael and Anne Lindsay Ludvik, of Belle Plaine, Minnesota; and ten grandchildren: Claire, and husband John, Steven, Jane, twins Christopher and Daniel, Jack, Adam, Matthew, Grace and Elaine. She is survived by one sister, Georgia Doemner of Hubbard, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her parents, and two sisters, Ruth Naomi Becker, and Faith
Mackey.
Memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, March 31, 2011 at Hilltop United Methodist Church, Mankato. Visitation will be one hour prior to service at the church on Thursday. Burial will be held in Ft. Snelling National Cemetery.
Betty was born to George Andrew and Ruth (Froom) Becker July 25, 1933, in Youngstown, Ohio. After graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School, she worked for the Navy Department in Arlington, Virginia. She studied music and opera at the Toutorski School of Music, and languages at George Washington University, both in The District of Columbia. She later returned to Youngstown and enrolled in Dana School of Music at Youngstown University.
She worked at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County and as a music and crafts aide at a nearby nursery school. She was also a part-time secretary to the district superintendent of the Methodist Church. From 1955 until 1960 she worked as television program secretary at WKBN.
She married George Andrew Lindsay, August 6, 1960, at Trinity Methodist Church in downtown Youngstown. They moved to Shadyside, Ohio and lived in river towns where her loving husband worked as a construction supervisor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
They moved with their three children to Mankato, Minnesota in 1975. Here she was able to continue some of the schooling begun so long before. She received a B.S. from Mankato State University in 1984, and an M.A. in Creative Writing in 1991.
Betty enjoyed spending time with her family, gathering rocks, music, painting, reading and writing. Betty was the first recipient of the Robert Wright Writer's Scholarship from Mankato State University.
She leaves her husband of more than 50 years; her children, Andrew and Barbara Jergensen Lindsay, of Maple Grove, Minnesota; Richard and Julie Bergemann Lindsay, of Mankato, Minnesota; Michael and Anne Lindsay Ludvik, of Belle Plaine, Minnesota; and ten grandchildren: Claire, and husband John, Steven, Jane, twins Christopher and Daniel, Jack, Adam, Matthew, Grace and Elaine. She is survived by one sister, Georgia Doemner of Hubbard, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her parents, and two sisters, Ruth Naomi Becker, and Faith
Mackey.
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