Betty’s Obituary Betty Abramson passed away on February 20, 2019. She was born almost 97 years ago in New York as Betty Schlosser. She grew up in Richmond Hill, NY.
She later married Gilbert Abramson and led a comfortable life in North Woodmere, NY as a wife an mother who stayed at home to raise her two children, Judith and Marian. When Marian turned 19 and went off to SUNY at Buffalo, Betty decided to begin her own college career while she was in her 40’s. She was an excellent student who received her Associate’s, Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.
Her family admired her starting college at that late age, doing so well in her many classes and her tenacity. She became a Home Economics teacher and revitalized a program which had few students signing up for those classes in a NYC high school, to having several hundred students on a waiting list to get into her classes. It was through the students who had taken her classes who then told their fellow students they would enjoy her classes.
She was also nominated by this NYC district through her principal and superintendent for the important award of “Teacher of the Year for New York State”, which was a great honor and a tribute to how hard she worked to both teach and reach children. She and her husband retired and then moved to Rancho Bernardo, after having taken a number of vacations in California, and especially San Diego. They therefore knew this area had the most wonderful weather, and they got to to see their brand new house in R.B. being built stage by stage.
It truly was her dream home. While in R.B. Betty volunteered to teach the blind cooking and was honored at a luncheon for this. She played the challenging game of Mah Jongg several times a week because she so loved playing it , and was so happy she got to meet and make the many friends who played it with her.
Betty was very happy when after their retirement in New York, her daughter Marian and son-in-law Bennett moved to nearby Carlsbad, CA and could visit often. Betty loved her life and her family and so enjoyed her later years, where she greatly appreciated living in the Rancho Bernardo house she had seen being built and was able to do so with the help of her dedicated caretaker Janeth, who was also her friend. Betty kept her mind sharp up to the very end by still playing Mah Jongg with her friends three times a week, up until the week before her passing.
She was preceded in death by her only sibling Helen, husband Gilbert and her daughter Judith. She will be so very missed by her daughter Marian Abramson Singer and her son-in-law Bennett Singer, her caretaker and so much more, Janeth; a caretaker of her husband and more; all her wonderful Mah Jongg friends as well as the many people whose lives she touched throughout her life.
If you found any mistakes, or you would like to add/remove to this obituary, please contact us by email: info@obituary.memorial. We never ask money for this.
