Lee, Massachusetts, USA
Died March 26, 2020
Age 95
Obituary
Elizabeth “Betty” Sophia Jones (Gelpi) Tower, 95, passed away surrounded by the love of her family, due to complications from COVID-19, at Baystate Medical Center, March 26 2020. Betty was born in Otis, MA and assisted her father on the Jones family farm. Betty’s ancestors, the Barlow’s, helped found the town of Lee. She attended Otis primary school and was in the “Fife and Drum” Core, playing drums. She was a graduate of Lee High School before attending and graduating from Baypath College’s secretarial program in 1942. Betty was a volunteer for the Red Cross in Florence MA, a graduate of the Bell Gardens, CA accounting program, a Girl Friday for Tesco Trucking and Accounting Clerk for the City of Bellflower before her retirement at age 75. Besides her own children and step children, she also helped raise her granddaughter and three great-grandsons.
Published in The Berkshire Eagle
“She was a better person than most. I strive to be a better person every day because she was proof that its possible. RIP Nana”
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