1953
Lewellyn
2011
Lewellyn Betts
July 15, 1953 — February 23, 2011
Lewellyn Betts
- Clemson
Lewellyn (Doris) Betts passed away on February 23, two years after being diagnosed with cancer. She was born July 15,1953, in Columbia, SC, but grew up in Sanford, NC, where she attended its public schools. She was the daughter of the late District Judge Lowry M. Betts, and of Professor Doris W. Betts, Pittsboro, NC. She was married to Professor Thomas Mroz, Clemson, SC, who survives.
After graduating from Sanford Central High School she received her A.B. degree from UNC-Greensboro, where she was active in the dramatic arts. She was part of its theater troupe that took its performance of "The Orestia" by Aeschyles, to the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington, D.C. Later she worked both as actor and stage manager at Parkway Playhouse Theater in Burnsville, NC, and with various dinner theaters before settling in Washington, DC, where she became a champion duplicate bridge player, and managed Garrett�??s bar in Georgetown.
In the early nineties she moved back to North Carolina and was employed as a grants specialist and business manager at the Carolina Population Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, where she met her future husband. They were married June 1996 at the Horace Williams House and lived in Chapel Hill. While in Chapel Hill she became a potter and attended the Penland School of Crafts in the North Carolina mountains. In 2007 she and her husband moved to Clemson, SC. There she served as vice president of the board of the Clemson Child Development Center.
Lewellyn is survived and loved by her husband, her mother, by brother David Lowry Betts and his wife Catherine Johnson Betts, Pittsboro, NC, and a niece, Anna Josephine Dendy Betts; by brother Erskine Moore Betts and his wife Mary Willcox Betts, Apex, N.C., two nephews, Matthew Palmer Betts, and William Alston Betts; and by Ellen, Mary and Rowena Betts, Columbia, S.C; and Rowena B. Brockman, Fletcher, N.C. She is also survived by her husband�??s family: Edmund Mroz, Sr. of Winchendon, MA; Edmund Mroz, Jr and wife Celia Shapiro, and nephew Nathaniel of Chestnut Hill MA; Elaine Mroz of Lunenburg MA; Carolyn and Frederick Sellars of Townsend, MA and nieces Emily and Althea and nephew Andrew; Richard Mroz of Bainbridge Island, WA and nephew Samuel; Gerald and Paula Mroz of Melrose, MA and nephews Nicholas and Matthew and niece Lydia; Francis and Maureen Mroz of Framingham and nieces Angela and Sarah and nephew Michael.
There will be two memorial services. The first will be held at 2:00pm on Saturday March 19 at the Pittsboro Presbyterian Church in Pittsboro, NC. The second memorial celebration will be from 2:00 to 5:00 pm on Saturday April 16 in the home she shared with Tom at 128 Ashley Road in Clemson, SC.
Memorials may be made to the Clemson Child Development Center, 216 Butler St, Clemson, SC 29631 or clemsoncdc.org.
- Clemson
Lewellyn (Doris) Betts passed away on February 23, two years after being diagnosed with cancer. She was born July 15,1953, in Columbia, SC, but grew up in Sanford, NC, where she attended its public schools. She was the daughter of the late District Judge Lowry M. Betts, and of Professor Doris W. Betts, Pittsboro, NC. She was married to Professor Thomas Mroz, Clemson, SC, who survives.
After graduating from Sanford Central High School she received her A.B. degree from UNC-Greensboro, where she was active in the dramatic arts. She was part of its theater troupe that took its performance of "The Orestia" by Aeschyles, to the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington, D.C. Later she worked both as actor and stage manager at Parkway Playhouse Theater in Burnsville, NC, and with various dinner theaters before settling in Washington, DC, where she became a champion duplicate bridge player, and managed Garrett�??s bar in Georgetown.
In the early nineties she moved back to North Carolina and was employed as a grants specialist and business manager at the Carolina Population Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, where she met her future husband. They were married June 1996 at the Horace Williams House and lived in Chapel Hill. While in Chapel Hill she became a potter and attended the Penland School of Crafts in the North Carolina mountains. In 2007 she and her husband moved to Clemson, SC. There she served as vice president of the board of the Clemson Child Development Center.
Lewellyn is survived and loved by her husband, her mother, by brother David Lowry Betts and his wife Catherine Johnson Betts, Pittsboro, NC, and a niece, Anna Josephine Dendy Betts; by brother Erskine Moore Betts and his wife Mary Willcox Betts, Apex, N.C., two nephews, Matthew Palmer Betts, and William Alston Betts; and by Ellen, Mary and Rowena Betts, Columbia, S.C; and Rowena B. Brockman, Fletcher, N.C. She is also survived by her husband�??s family: Edmund Mroz, Sr. of Winchendon, MA; Edmund Mroz, Jr and wife Celia Shapiro, and nephew Nathaniel of Chestnut Hill MA; Elaine Mroz of Lunenburg MA; Carolyn and Frederick Sellars of Townsend, MA and nieces Emily and Althea and nephew Andrew; Richard Mroz of Bainbridge Island, WA and nephew Samuel; Gerald and Paula Mroz of Melrose, MA and nephews Nicholas and Matthew and niece Lydia; Francis and Maureen Mroz of Framingham and nieces Angela and Sarah and nephew Michael.
There will be two memorial services. The first will be held at 2:00pm on Saturday March 19 at the Pittsboro Presbyterian Church in Pittsboro, NC. The second memorial celebration will be from 2:00 to 5:00 pm on Saturday April 16 in the home she shared with Tom at 128 Ashley Road in Clemson, SC.
Memorials may be made to the Clemson Child Development Center, 216 Butler St, Clemson, SC 29631 or clemsoncdc.org.
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