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In loving memory

Betty Francis Aitken

August 31, 1924 – February 27, 1994
Lived 69 years
Quincy Valley Cemetery · Quincy, Washington
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Wenatchee World, The (WA) - Thursday, March 3, 1994

Betty F. Aitken, 69, of Spokane and a former Quincy resident, died Sunday, February 27, 1994, at Spokane.

She was born August 31, 1924, to Edward and Delia Parent at Somerset, Wisconsin. She graduated from Somerset High School in 1942.

She married Henry Aitken in 1943 at Seattle. They both worked for the Boeing Company. They moved to Quincy in 1952, and then to Spokane in 1972.

Mrs. Aitken belonged to the Altar Society of St. Pius X Catholic Church in Quincy and was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Spokane.

She is survived by her husband, of the home; a son, Richard of Spokane; two daughters, Vickie Brissey and Barbara Gottschalk, both of Quincy; her mother of Somerset, Wisconsin; two brothers, Harold and Myron, both of Somerset, Wisconsin; three sisters, Virginia Salmon of Somerset, Wisconsin, Shirley Adamson of Danville, California and Sheryl Carroll of Bear Lake, Minnesota; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father, two sisters, a grandchild and two great-grandchildren.

Arrangements are by Thornhill Valley Funeral Home, Spokane.

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1924
Born August 31
1929
Betty was 5 when the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday
1939
Betty was 15 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta
1942
Betty was 18 when Grand Coulee Dam was completed
1952
Betty was 28 when Grand Coulee irrigation water reached Quincy
1967
Betty was 43 when the first Super Bowl was played
1977
Betty was 53 when Star Wars opened in theaters
1981
Betty was 57 when MTV began broadcasting
1991
Betty was 67 when the Soviet Union dissolved
1994
Passed away February 27, age 69
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The Aitken name at Quincy Valley Cemetery

Henry "Hank" Angus Aitken1918 – 2002
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