Betty Jean Clawes Braddy King was the daughter of Roy Clawes and Jessie Ferrier, sister of Richard Hugh Clawes, and Robert "Bob" Clawes Sr. She grew up in a building on Pratt Ave where her paternal grandparents Richard O. Clawes and Bessie Danielsen Clawes lived, and they worked in the deli on the first floor. They were a very close family. Her Uncle Russell Clawes and Aunt Mae Nelson Clawes lived with their daughter Charlotte Clawes Ritz and son Leslie Clawes. So they were a tight knit group and very gregarious flock together. Jessie told me a few times that she won a pretty baby contest once. She was "smart as a whip" too as Jessie would say. She graduated Salutatorian from Taft High School in Chicago (1-27-44). She then went to Knox College in Galesburg, IL., where I believe she met Tillman "Brad" Braddy, whom she married in June of 1949. After graduation from Knox College, she taught at Ashley Fletcher Leal School in Urbana, IL. Then it was time to raise children: Ann, Susan and Scott. They moved several times from Illinois to Nebraska, to Henrietta, NY, Rochester, NY, and Colorado. They divorced in 68. She worked in clothing sales and met Eddie King around 1970 while working at Neusteder's Department Store in Cherry Creek and Cinderella City Mall in Englewood, CO. Eddie sold shoes there or nearby in the mall and was a good man who had been through a divorce too. He turned out to be a great person for her. They were good for each other. He made her laugh, and smile and feel good about herself. They moved to Santa Monica, California and got married in 1977. Moving there was the best thing they ever did together. It was an adventure and good to go to a clean slate away from the old past. Eddie's father lived with them in his later years. Along also was Betty's daughter Susan. Betty worked in sales again at Saks 5th Ave in Beverly Hills and loved it. My mother was very caring that way. She had tact, honor, and humility, and felt that others deserved the same. She was very close with family, most of all, her mother Jessie, and Aunt's Ina and Mae. She was coming to visit her mother Jessie in early April of 1995 when she came down suddenly ill with pancreatic cancer. She passed suddenly just a few weeks later surrounded by family. She was brave, and cheerful the entire time. Her children, her mother, and her brother's Rich and, Bob both (who called her "Betts") came to see her go, as well as her x-husband Brad, who was the last to say farewell, and talk a bit of old times. She slipped away early in the morning around 2:30 am as a fog bank rolled through. It was as if it took her with it.
She was 68 years old.
MY MOM!!
Betty Jean Clawes Braddy King was the daughter of Roy Clawes and Jessie Ferrier, sister of Richard Hugh Clawes, and Robert "Bob" Clawes Sr. She grew up in a building on Pratt Ave where her paternal grandparents Richard O. Clawes and Bessie Danielsen Clawes lived, and they worked in the deli on the first floor. They were a very close family. Her Uncle Russell Clawes and Aunt Mae Nelson Clawes lived with their daughter Charlotte Clawes Ritz and son Leslie Clawes. So they were a tight knit group and very gregarious flock together. Jessie told me a few times that she won a pretty baby contest once. She was "smart as a whip" too as Jessie would say. She graduated Salutatorian from Taft High School in Chicago (1-27-44). She then went to Knox College in Galesburg, IL., where I believe she met Tillman "Brad" Braddy, whom she married in June of 1949. After graduation from Knox College, she taught at Ashley Fletcher Leal School in Urbana, IL. Then it was time to raise children: Ann, Susan and Scott. They moved several times from Illinois to Nebraska, to Henrietta, NY, Rochester, NY, and Colorado. They divorced in 68. She worked in clothing sales and met Eddie King around 1970 while working at Neusteder's Department Store in Cherry Creek and Cinderella City Mall in Englewood, CO. Eddie sold shoes there or nearby in the mall and was a good man who had been through a divorce too. He turned out to be a great person for her. They were good for each other. He made her laugh, and smile and feel good about herself. They moved to Santa Monica, California and got married in 1977. Moving there was the best thing they ever did together. It was an adventure and good to go to a clean slate away from the old past. Eddie's father lived with them in his later years. Along also was Betty's daughter Susan. Betty worked in sales again at Saks 5th Ave in Beverly Hills and loved it. My mother was very caring that way. She had tact, honor, and humility, and felt that others deserved the same. She was very close with family, most of all, her mother Jessie, and Aunt's Ina and Mae. She was coming to visit her mother Jessie in early April of 1995 when she came down suddenly ill with pancreatic cancer. She passed suddenly just a few weeks later surrounded by family. She was brave, and cheerful the entire time. Her children, her mother, and her brother's Rich and, Bob both (who called her "Betts") came to see her go, as well as her x-husband Brad, who was the last to say farewell, and talk a bit of old times. She slipped away early in the morning around 2:30 am as a fog bank rolled through. It was as if it took her with it.
She was 68 years old.
MY MOM!!
