- Date Of Birth: February 1, 1924
- Date Of Death: June 18, 2011
- State: Arizona
Born February 1, 1924 in Sacramento, California to Julia Armes and Carroll Richardson Couture. Died peacefully at home in her much-loved victorian on June 18, 2011, surrounded by the love of her family and friends.
She was proud to be a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a descendent of California pioneers. Her fraternal grandparents , who were both doctors, rode out the 1906 in their home in San Francisco on the Green Street hill. Her maternal grandparents owned a ranch in the Sierra foothills, the first in their valley to have a flush toilet and the only one not to be mortgaged in the Great Depression.
A graduate of Modesto Junior College and the University of California, Berkeley, Elizabeth ( known in childhood as Betty May, and to many later as Betty), started her teaching career in Salinas, California. She also taught at St. Joseph’s Grammar School in Alameda and later became head of the English department at Encinal High School in Alameda.
Betty married her high school sweetheart in 1947, they would have been married 64 years on June 22.
Betty and Al traveled the world together, from Cuba to Egypt, , from the Arctic Circle to China, and many points between.
Betty is survived by her husband Alfred B. Slater, daughters Julie Slater and Jeanne Slater, granddaughters Julia Guerra , Davina DeFreese , Marlene Baker DeFreese, and by her daughter-in -law Denise DeFreese. She is also survived by her many wonderful friends from her college sorority, her teaching career, her bridge group and her book clubs.
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