My Aunt Betty died peacefully in her own bed in her apartment at 900 Lincoln Club Dr, Pittsburgh, PA, a little after 9 PM, where she had lived since April 2010.
She was born in Suburban Hospital, just a couple blocks from the house she was raised in at 316 McKinley Ave in Avalon. She lived there with her grandparents and parents and older brother, but by the time her younger brother was born in 1929, they had moved to Oklahoma, leaving her grandparents there by themselves.
By the early 1930s her parents had bought the McKinley Ave house from her grandparents, and she lived there for some time after she started working, then in an apartment in Millvale for a number of years.
Betty was a graduate of the Robert Morris Secretarial School and was executive secretary to the chief medical officer of The Western Pennsylvania Hospital for many years in what was essentially the worker's comp division of the United States Steel Corporation. She worked for "Steel" for 37 years.
In the early 1980s the house next door to her parents' house came up for sale and she bought it and lived there after retiring.
Here are a few more details about her life that were sent in a letter from her brother Marvin to their nephew Rob in May 2002:
She graduated from Avalon High School in June 1945 and she did particularly well in shorthand (archaic now) and typing. She then attended Robert Morris, a business school (now a college) probably for a year. She was proficient in medical terminology and her picture was on the graduation cover. She went to U S Steel to work and she was transferred into a number of different departments until they sent her to West Penn Hospital to be Dr Foster's personal secretary. Dr Foster was the chief surgeon for U S Steel and Pennsylvania Railroad. He took care of and evaluated on the job related industrial accidents. Back in those years there were many accidents. Dr Foster was also the specialist for the rich people, Mellon and others. Betty really was excellent at this type of work and impressed many people with the way she ran the office.
I do not know the years many of these things transpired and Betty is not sure. While she was working she went to millinery school at night. Also in the evening she went to Berlitz to learn Spanish, modeling school and to Pitt for public speaking. These would have occurred in her first ten years of working.
In 1964 U S Steel was cutting back and they released Dr Foster and Betty went back to the main office in Pittsburgh. She wanted to stay with Dr Foster but her salary was an issue since U S Steel paid well. This was a very trying time for Betty especially after Bob's death and she took it very hard and still does. Not getting to see her nephews was devastating and she is still very angry. This combined with the cancer scare in April of 1964 was all devastating.
At U S Steel in 1964 she went to work in the foundation where they give money away. For some reason she was transferred to the stock transfer division. This was absurd as they could have hired a bank to handle stock transfers.
Betty worked at stock transfer until she retired in February 1982, one year behind me. At that time she bought the house she is living in which meant a lot to her after working all those years.
She was born in Suburban Hospital, just a couple blocks from the house she was raised in at 316 McKinley Ave in Avalon. She lived there with her grandparents and parents and older brother, but by the time her younger brother was born in 1929, they had moved to Oklahoma, leaving her grandparents there by themselves.
By the early 1930s her parents had bought the McKinley Ave house from her grandparents, and she lived there for some time after she started working, then in an apartment in Millvale for a number of years.
Betty was a graduate of the Robert Morris Secretarial School and was executive secretary to the chief medical officer of The Western Pennsylvania Hospital for many years in what was essentially the worker's comp division of the United States Steel Corporation. She worked for "Steel" for 37 years.
In the early 1980s the house next door to her parents' house came up for sale and she bought it and lived there after retiring.
Here are a few more details about her life that were sent in a letter from her brother Marvin to their nephew Rob in May 2002:
She graduated from Avalon High School in June 1945 and she did particularly well in shorthand (archaic now) and typing. She then attended Robert Morris, a business school (now a college) probably for a year. She was proficient in medical terminology and her picture was on the graduation cover. She went to U S Steel to work and she was transferred into a number of different departments until they sent her to West Penn Hospital to be Dr Foster's personal secretary. Dr Foster was the chief surgeon for U S Steel and Pennsylvania Railroad. He took care of and evaluated on the job related industrial accidents. Back in those years there were many accidents. Dr Foster was also the specialist for the rich people, Mellon and others. Betty really was excellent at this type of work and impressed many people with the way she ran the office.
I do not know the years many of these things transpired and Betty is not sure. While she was working she went to millinery school at night. Also in the evening she went to Berlitz to learn Spanish, modeling school and to Pitt for public speaking. These would have occurred in her first ten years of working.
In 1964 U S Steel was cutting back and they released Dr Foster and Betty went back to the main office in Pittsburgh. She wanted to stay with Dr Foster but her salary was an issue since U S Steel paid well. This was a very trying time for Betty especially after Bob's death and she took it very hard and still does. Not getting to see her nephews was devastating and she is still very angry. This combined with the cancer scare in April of 1964 was all devastating.
At U S Steel in 1964 she went to work in the foundation where they give money away. For some reason she was transferred to the stock transfer division. This was absurd as they could have hired a bank to handle stock transfers.
Betty worked at stock transfer until she retired in February 1982, one year behind me. At that time she bought the house she is living in which meant a lot to her after working all those years.
My Aunt Betty died peacefully in her own bed in her apartment at 900 Lincoln Club Dr, Pittsburgh, PA, a little after 9 PM, where she had lived since April 2010.
She was born in Suburban Hospital, just a couple blocks from the house she was raised in at 316 McKinley Ave in Avalon. She lived there with her grandparents and parents and older brother, but by the time her younger brother was born in 1929, they had moved to Oklahoma, leaving her grandparents there by themselves.
By the early 1930s her parents had bought the McKinley Ave house from her grandparents, and she lived there for some time after she started working, then in an apartment in Millvale for a number of years.
Betty was a graduate of the Robert Morris Secretarial School and was executive secretary to the chief medical officer of The Western Pennsylvania Hospital for many years in what was essentially the worker's comp division of the United States Steel Corporation. She worked for "Steel" for 37 years.
In the early 1980s the house next door to her parents' house came up for sale and she bought it and lived there after retiring.
Here are a few more details about her life that were sent in a letter from her brother Marvin to their nephew Rob in May 2002:
She graduated from Avalon High School in June 1945 and she did particularly well in shorthand (archaic now) and typing. She then attended Robert Morris, a business school (now a college) probably for a year. She was proficient in medical terminology and her picture was on the graduation cover. She went to U S Steel to work and she was transferred into a number of different departments until they sent her to West Penn Hospital to be Dr Foster's personal secretary. Dr Foster was the chief surgeon for U S Steel and Pennsylvania Railroad. He took care of and evaluated on the job related industrial accidents. Back in those years there were many accidents. Dr Foster was also the specialist for the rich people, Mellon and others. Betty really was excellent at this type of work and impressed many people with the way she ran the office.
I do not know the years many of these things transpired and Betty is not sure. While she was working she went to millinery school at night. Also in the evening she went to Berlitz to learn Spanish, modeling school and to Pitt for public speaking. These would have occurred in her first ten years of working.
In 1964 U S Steel was cutting back and they released Dr Foster and Betty went back to the main office in Pittsburgh. She wanted to stay with Dr Foster but her salary was an issue since U S Steel paid well. This was a very trying time for Betty especially after Bob's death and she took it very hard and still does. Not getting to see her nephews was devastating and she is still very angry. This combined with the cancer scare in April of 1964 was all devastating.
At U S Steel in 1964 she went to work in the foundation where they give money away. For some reason she was transferred to the stock transfer division. This was absurd as they could have hired a bank to handle stock transfers.
Betty worked at stock transfer until she retired in February 1982, one year behind me. At that time she bought the house she is living in which meant a lot to her after working all those years.
She was born in Suburban Hospital, just a couple blocks from the house she was raised in at 316 McKinley Ave in Avalon. She lived there with her grandparents and parents and older brother, but by the time her younger brother was born in 1929, they had moved to Oklahoma, leaving her grandparents there by themselves.
By the early 1930s her parents had bought the McKinley Ave house from her grandparents, and she lived there for some time after she started working, then in an apartment in Millvale for a number of years.
Betty was a graduate of the Robert Morris Secretarial School and was executive secretary to the chief medical officer of The Western Pennsylvania Hospital for many years in what was essentially the worker's comp division of the United States Steel Corporation. She worked for "Steel" for 37 years.
In the early 1980s the house next door to her parents' house came up for sale and she bought it and lived there after retiring.
Here are a few more details about her life that were sent in a letter from her brother Marvin to their nephew Rob in May 2002:
She graduated from Avalon High School in June 1945 and she did particularly well in shorthand (archaic now) and typing. She then attended Robert Morris, a business school (now a college) probably for a year. She was proficient in medical terminology and her picture was on the graduation cover. She went to U S Steel to work and she was transferred into a number of different departments until they sent her to West Penn Hospital to be Dr Foster's personal secretary. Dr Foster was the chief surgeon for U S Steel and Pennsylvania Railroad. He took care of and evaluated on the job related industrial accidents. Back in those years there were many accidents. Dr Foster was also the specialist for the rich people, Mellon and others. Betty really was excellent at this type of work and impressed many people with the way she ran the office.
I do not know the years many of these things transpired and Betty is not sure. While she was working she went to millinery school at night. Also in the evening she went to Berlitz to learn Spanish, modeling school and to Pitt for public speaking. These would have occurred in her first ten years of working.
In 1964 U S Steel was cutting back and they released Dr Foster and Betty went back to the main office in Pittsburgh. She wanted to stay with Dr Foster but her salary was an issue since U S Steel paid well. This was a very trying time for Betty especially after Bob's death and she took it very hard and still does. Not getting to see her nephews was devastating and she is still very angry. This combined with the cancer scare in April of 1964 was all devastating.
At U S Steel in 1964 she went to work in the foundation where they give money away. For some reason she was transferred to the stock transfer division. This was absurd as they could have hired a bank to handle stock transfers.
Betty worked at stock transfer until she retired in February 1982, one year behind me. At that time she bought the house she is living in which meant a lot to her after working all those years.
