Ulogy for Terry's Mom Betty Berreth

Elizebeth Estella Satterlee-Berreth

Borne December 25, 1916 in Los Angeles California, the perfect Christmas present for her doting parents, Katherine May and Lloyd Dwight. She passed July 20, 2012 in Rancho Mirage, California, at the age of 95. She was always called "Betty" and jokingly known as "Big Red" because of her height (5 feet -10 inches) and her red hair. Her brother Dwight (aka "Buzzy"), who was acting on Broadway in New York, encouraged her to study costume design at UCLA, during which time she was also working at Earl Carol's Supper Club in Hollywood. She always remembered her brother plucking her eyebrows to keep her "in style". Not comfortable with the supper club lifestyle, Betty joined the Bell Telephone Company where she worked for the next 45 years as a supervisor, one of the first managers of the Bell Telephone Exhibit at Disneyland, and finally as one of the first female engineers in the Telephone Company. She married Clarence Julius Berreth, had one son, and divorced. As a Telephone Company Pioneer, she retired at nearly 70 to care for her ailing mother. After her mother passed, Betty traveled to Europe a number of times to be with her son who was living in Italy. And finally, she moved to Rancho Mirage to be with her son when he moved back to the states to join La Gallaria Consignment in Rancho Mirage. Betty was a loving daughter; a devoted mother, a wonderful friend, and an extremely gifted woman who always managed to leave work at work and never brought the trials of the day home with her. She will be missed greatly. Betty will be buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery next to her grandmother, her mother and father, and her brother. She is succeeded only by her son Terry Duane Romney Berreth.

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- Written by TDB Romney - 2012

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