Friday, February 25, 2022
Our condolences to the family on this occasion and my personal apologies for having misread the obituary missing today's service. I went instead to the Spruce Street Methodist Church, not the funeral home, I knew Betty through our shared service at WVU for many years. She was a wonderful, constant, and positive presence, both in the Department of Mathematics and in her administrative service at Stewart Hall. She was a gifted teacher, one committed to her students and their success. Because I knew Betty, she volunteered to help tutor our younger daughter, Kristin, when she was studying calculus in college. The two bonded immediately, and they would develop further common interests when Kristin became president of her ADPi chapter at the University of North Carolina. Never, when my path might cross with Betty, did she failed to ask about Kristin, and, of course, her sorority activities. A loving, caring, giving person, Betty was a positive presence wherever she found herself. The world has lost an exemplary citizen, WVU an outstanding faculty member and official, and a whole lot of folks everywhere a very good friend.
