- Date Of Birth: February 24, 1922
- Date Of Death: January 29, 2019
- City: Port St. Lucie
- State: Florida
Betty Louretta Wells, née Jackson, passed away on January 29, 2019, at Port St. Lucie Nursing and Restorative Care Center in Port St. Lucie Florida at age 96. She was born in Newton Iowa on February 24, 1922. Her parents later moved to Tampa where she grew up before graduating from Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University).
After college, she served with the American Red Cross at the end of World War II in Hawaii. She returned from Hawaii and moved with her parents Dale E. Jackson and Rubi Gonder Jackson to Fort Pierce in 1946. She married Raymond E. Wells on May 21, 1951, in Tampa who preceded her in death in 1978.
Betty Lou was a well-known figure in the community due to her work as a substitute teacher for many schools and then as a full-time teacher at Fort Pierce Central High School and Westwood High School. She was also a member of many local organizations, including the Conservation Alliance of St. Lucie County (a founding member), Audubon Native Plant Society, League of Woman Voters, Democratic Women’s Club, and St. Lucie Historical Society. She was also a frequent letter-writer to government agencies, political leaders, and newspaper editors to educate voters or regulators and impact decisions she thought would harm the Florida natural beauty and environmental health she deeply loved.
She will be much missed by her family: Richard Wells and Joan Ozea Wells of Slidell LA, Lisa Wells Kaul and David Kaul of Marathon FL, her grandchildren Jennifer Wells Larmann and Scott Larmann, Tiffany Wells Ory and Joshua Ory and her six great-grandchildren.
