Chattanooga, TN
Being the sole survivor of a small plane crash, three abdominal obstruction surgeries, and breast cancer that all failed to take her, complications of Alzheimer disease finally took her to be with her mother and father on June 20, 2016.
Betty was born Sept. 13, 1932 in Quincy Massachusetts and grew up in Holbrook MA. Her father, Elmer Olof Wallster, was born in Sweden and her mother, a nurse, was from Connecticut.
Betty attended public schools in Holbrook and completed five years of college with a degree in Physical Therapy from Simmons College in Boston. She worked her first job in Connecticut and went on to San Diego, California to work where she met her husband, John "Jack" Horn, and they moved to York in 1965 where she worked at York Hospital before going into private practice.
Betty and Jack retired to Chattanooga, in 2009 to be near one of their daughters, Debra Horn and family. Their other daughter, Kim Hunt and her family, recently moved to Florida, where Betty loved to visit.
Betty will be laid to rest at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga on Friday, June 24, their 55th wedding anniversary.
Published in York Daily Record & York Dispatch on June 23, 2016
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Being the sole survivor of a small plane crash, three abdominal obstruction surgeries, and breast cancer that all failed to take her, complications of Alzheimer disease finally took her to be with her mother and father on June 20, 2016.
Betty was born Sept. 13, 1932 in Quincy Massachusetts and grew up in Holbrook MA. Her father, Elmer Olof Wallster, was born in Sweden and her mother, a nurse, was from Connecticut.
Betty attended public schools in Holbrook and completed five years of college with a degree in Physical Therapy from Simmons College in Boston. She worked her first job in Connecticut and went on to San Diego, California to work where she met her husband, John "Jack" Horn, and they moved to York in 1965 where she worked at York Hospital before going into private practice.
Betty and Jack retired to Chattanooga, in 2009 to be near one of their daughters, Debra Horn and family. Their other daughter, Kim Hunt and her family, recently moved to Florida, where Betty loved to visit.
Betty will be laid to rest at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga on Friday, June 24, their 55th wedding anniversary.
Published in York Daily Record & York Dispatch on June 23, 2016
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Chattanooga, TN
Being the sole survivor of a small plane crash, three abdominal obstruction surgeries, and breast cancer that all failed to take her, complications of Alzheimer disease finally took her to be with her mother and father on June 20, 2016.
Betty was born Sept. 13, 1932 in Quincy Massachusetts and grew up in Holbrook MA. Her father, Elmer Olof Wallster, was born in Sweden and her mother, a nurse, was from Connecticut.
Betty attended public schools in Holbrook and completed five years of college with a degree in Physical Therapy from Simmons College in Boston. She worked her first job in Connecticut and went on to San Diego, California to work where she met her husband, John "Jack" Horn, and they moved to York in 1965 where she worked at York Hospital before going into private practice.
Betty and Jack retired to Chattanooga, in 2009 to be near one of their daughters, Debra Horn and family. Their other daughter, Kim Hunt and her family, recently moved to Florida, where Betty loved to visit.
Betty will be laid to rest at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga on Friday, June 24, their 55th wedding anniversary.
Published in York Daily Record & York Dispatch on June 23, 2016
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Being the sole survivor of a small plane crash, three abdominal obstruction surgeries, and breast cancer that all failed to take her, complications of Alzheimer disease finally took her to be with her mother and father on June 20, 2016.
Betty was born Sept. 13, 1932 in Quincy Massachusetts and grew up in Holbrook MA. Her father, Elmer Olof Wallster, was born in Sweden and her mother, a nurse, was from Connecticut.
Betty attended public schools in Holbrook and completed five years of college with a degree in Physical Therapy from Simmons College in Boston. She worked her first job in Connecticut and went on to San Diego, California to work where she met her husband, John "Jack" Horn, and they moved to York in 1965 where she worked at York Hospital before going into private practice.
Betty and Jack retired to Chattanooga, in 2009 to be near one of their daughters, Debra Horn and family. Their other daughter, Kim Hunt and her family, recently moved to Florida, where Betty loved to visit.
Betty will be laid to rest at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga on Friday, June 24, their 55th wedding anniversary.
Published in York Daily Record & York Dispatch on June 23, 2016
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