Betsy Kelley - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Tue, 06 Jun 2023 23:24:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Betsy Kelley - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 Liz (Betsy) Klein(top) aka Mom https://www.quakerranter.org/liz-betsy-kleintop-aka-mom/ https://www.quakerranter.org/liz-betsy-kleintop-aka-mom/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2015 06:29:48 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=38505 My mom Liz just passed away tonight. It’s not unexpected. And sadly, given her health, it’s perhaps not even so tragic; she’s been declining for years from Alzheimer’s and all but stopped eating in recent weeks. I’m sure I’ll find voice to tell some stories in the months ahead, but for now I’ll share some pictures. She would have turned 85 next month.

A note about names: she was born in late summer 1930 as Elizabeth Ann Kleintop. In her adult life she went as Betsy and took the last names of her partners. In her late 60s she decided to take back a variation of her last name and overnight Betsy Kelley became Liz Klein.

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