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Betsy Bell

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Betsy Bell, born before WWII in New York City, spent her formative years in the Jim Crow town of
Muskogee, Oklahoma. As a Girl Scout she began her social justice activist working with a bi-racial team to plan desegregation after the 1954 Supreme Court decision to integrate public schools. Graduating from Bryn Mawr College with a BA in 1959 and an MA in 1963, she began an academic career in Lawrence, Kansas where her husband taught. In Lawrence, she advocated for reproductive rights with Planned Parenthood. She lives in Seattle where she has held several career positions, interrupted by long residential stays in England and South Africa where her husband’s academic work took him. Twice widowed, Betsy has published two short memoirs and sever
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Saying Goodby to Eleanor Johnson

My mother was seventy-six when she died; my father ninety when he took his own life. In my own family, the Bells and later with the Finneys, we all surrounded our dying husbands, fathers--Don and Chuck--with stories, prayer, poetry, and song as they each took their last breaths, buoyed for their journey by the love they knew.

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