Bettie Overholt

Bettie Overholt
August 30, 1924 ~ October 13, 2025
Bettie was born in Melrose, MA to Fred and Grace Smith in 1924. She began school in Massachusetts and graduated high school in Montclair, N.J. where they moved when she was 10 years old. After high school Bettie completed a secretarial course at the Catherine Gibbs School in Montclair.

Bettie was working as a bookkeeper and dance instructor at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Montclair in 1946 where she met Frank Overholt. She and Frank were married later that year and re-located to South Miami, Florida where they founded a successful retail business in that city. Bettie was the bookkeeper.

Bettie was for many years an active member and treasurer of the Coco Plum Women's Club of South Miami.

An avid reader throughout her life she read nearly every issue of The New Yorker magazine which was founded the year she was born.

Frank and Bettie were very happily married for 70 years until Frank's death at 98 in 2016.

She will be missed by her daughter, Elizabeth, son-in-law, Jim, and grandson, Murphy, and loving family member in New York, Miami, and North Carolina.