- Date Of Death: April 20, 2018
- State: Connecticut
Elizabeth “Betty” Helen Mohlman (nee Burmester) passed away peacefully on April 20, 2018 at her residence in Woodbridge, CT. Born in 1917, she lived for more than a century.
Betty is survived by her son Kurt Mohlman and his wife Margret, 5 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren She was preceded in death by her parents Everett A. Burmester and Ethel E. Burmester (nee Smith), her brother Dell A. Burmester, her husband of 59 years, Robert David Mohlman and her son Stephen Dell Mohlman.
Betty was born in Detroit, Michigan when that city was rapidly becoming the center of manufacturing in the world and a very exciting place to grow up. She attended Wayne State University in Detroit and received her B.A. in teaching in 1938 followed by a Masters Degree in Art Education during the war years, so exceptional for a woman in those days. She belonged to the American Association of University Women for many years.
She married Robert on October 1, 1942 and had her first born Stephen in an Army Hospital in 1944 near Salt Lake City, Utah. One of her most enduring memories was the trip she took back to Detroit on a troop train, alone with her new born son. Her husband had been shipped out in late 1944 and did not return home until the spring of 1946. In the early 1950’s they moved to Erie, Pa, where they raised their two sons and lived until 1967, when Robert was transferred to Portland, OR.
In 1977, they returned to Erie for their retirement where they were active in the First Methodist
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