In loving memory of Betty Ann Read. Loving wife, sister, mother, & grandmother.
Betty Ann Read
February 28, 1933 – May 11, 2021
Lived 88 years
Godfrey, Illinois
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The world Betty knew
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1933
Born February 28
1939
Betty was 6 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta
1941
Betty was 8 when the United States entered World War II
1958
Betty was 25 when the Hula Hoop craze swept the country
1969
Betty was 36 when the Woodstock music festival opened
1971
Betty was 38 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1982
Betty was 49 when Michael Jackson released "Thriller"
1994
Betty was 61 when "Friends" premiered
2005
Betty was 72 when the first video was posted to YouTube
2014
Betty was 81 when the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral
2020
Betty was 87 when SpaceX launched astronauts into orbit for the first time
2021
Passed away May 11, age 88
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