Individual Details
Elizabeth T "Betty" Briles
(21 Feb 1931 - 21 Dec 2014)
Death notice states Betty was cremated and ashes scattered at sea. There is a entry for Betty at Phoenix Memorial Park and Mortuary however no marker.
Events
Birth | 21 Feb 1931 | Fruitland Park, Lake, Florida, United States | |||
Death | 21 Dec 2014 | Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States | |||
Cremation |
Families
Father | Walter Maurice Briles (1890 - 1946) |
Mother | Theresa August Losemann (1890 - 1982) |
Sibling | Odilia Marie Briles (1917 - 1994) |
Sibling | Walter Williams "Buster" Briles (1918 - 1983) |
Sibling | Cleopha "Ann" Briles (1920 - 2001) |
Sibling | Glondolia May "Babe" Briles (1924 - 1990) |
Notes
Death
Born on February 21, 1931 in Fruitland Park, Florida,Betty was the youngest of the five children of
Walter Maurice and Thereasa Loseman Briles.
Her family included 3 sisters, Odilia, Cleo, and Babe (Glondolia)and 1 brother, Buster (Walter W. Briles).
At a young age she moved with her mother to Hanover, Kansas, and later to Denver.
Elizabeth married Jack Watson in 1947 in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and they remained together for 45 years until his death in 1992. In that time, they raised three boys, Gary, Tom, and Jack Jr..
Elizabeth married a second time in 1994, taking Richard Crites in a wedding performed by Cleo's husband, William Jolley, J.P., in Sheridan, Oregon. Richard passed away five years later.
Betty loved to travel. She enjoyed working in the aviation industry, and for many years served as president of the Frontier Airlines Employees Club.
Betty and Jack's ashes will be scattered together in the Pacific ocean off the California coast on Valentine's Day.