1925 obit- Christine (Dunklee) Betterley-Brattleboro,        
Date:	4/29/98 7:01:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:	tess@sover.net (Terry Perham)

from the Brattleboro Reformer
                Brattleboro, Windham County, VT
                          1925
                DIES FOLLOWING SEVERE INJURIES
  Mrs. T.F. Betterley Was 81 Years Old--Funeral Service This Afternoon
                    in Home on Ames Hill

        Mrs. Thomas Francis Betterley, 81, died Saturday evening at 8:15
o'clock in her home on Ames hill.  She fell in home eight weeks ago and
fractured one hip and injured her spine.  She had been confined to her
bed since then.

        A daughter of Jesse and Betsey (Mixer) Dunklee, Christine Cadette
Dunklee was born in Westminster April 3, 1844, one of a family of 10
children.  Her marriage to Thomas F. Betterley of Williamsville took
place April 5, 1866.  Mr. and Mrs. Betterley lived in Springfield,
Andover and New Braintree, Mass., moving to West Brattleboro 47 years
ago.  For a few years they lived on the so-called Gardner Briggs place
on the Jacksonville road, near West Guilford, and about 16 years ago
they bought their present home on Ames hill, where they carrried on a
large farm.

        Five children were born to them, four of whom survive:  Alice B. wife
of Hervey D. Thayer of West Brattleboro, Fred A. Betterley of
Brattleboro, Mrs. Florence Houghton of Guilford and Christine, wife of
Isaac Robb, jr., of Brattleboro.  A daughter, Bertha died several years
ago.

        Besides her husband and children, she leaves 14 grandchildren and 10
great-grandchildren, also two sisters, Mrs. Ella Eames of Brattleboro,
who is spending the winter in Florida, and Mrs. Alice Woodbury of East
Northfield, Mass., and two brothers, Charles Dunklee of Greenfield,
Mass., and Albert Dunklee of Providence, R.I.

        The funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the home, Rev.
Edwin P. Wood, pastor of All Souls church, officiating.  The bearers
were her son, Fred A. Betterley, Isaac Robb,jr., Hermon, Charles and
Chester Robb, Guy Thayer of Rutland and Hervey D. Thayer.  The burial
took place in the West Brattleboro cemetery.
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(c)1998, Terry Perham
Courtesy of
Terry Perham
Hinsdale, NH
tess@sover.net

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