This morning I went down to the Surrogate Court Building in New York to find information on Marie Betelle. According to her obituary, she died living in NYC, so I was hoping to both find a copy of her will and perhaps see what her building looked like (my first walk around that area revealed [...]
Marie Betelle Sleeps with the Fishes
September 5th, 2006 · No Comments · Diary
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Luck Be a Lady Betelle
August 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Diary
As satisfying as it is to find an elusive publication, photograph or news item I had been looking for, even more thrilling is finding material I wasn’t looking for. I had a lot of this recently.
Last week I came into posession a stack of letter between Betelle and Pierre S. duPont regarding the schools [...]
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The Widow Betelle
July 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Biographical, Diary
John emailed me a few days ago with new information he dug up; Marie Betelle’s obituary from the New York Times:
August 30, 1959
Mrs. Marie Ann Louise Betelle, widow of James O. Betelle, an architect, died of a brain hemorrhage early yesterday at University Hospital. She was 52 years old.
Mrs. Betelle lived at 450 [...]